Okay so this is my first post in six days - my apologies I've been tied up with things at work and haven't had too many exciting things to write about. I decided to do a bit of 'local' exploring today and I visited the nearby city of Reutlingen. I say local with inverted commas, because to me as a kiwi used to wide open spaces the whole of Germany, with its densely populated countryside, feels like one big village with lots of seperate town centres. Gomaringen is considered a 'rural' area even though it is less than 15 mins drive from both Reutlingen and Tubingen, cities of over 80,000 a piece each. In NZ what I'm used to rural meaning, is that your next door neighbour (also a sheep farmer) has a residence 40 km away and your nearest population might be a raging metropolis like Taihape. Reutlingen is also very nice, I'm a bit of a stuck record so far with my accusing all German towns of being very nice, well it's true they all have a certain 'villageness' about them which I'm coming to quite like. Reutlingen is probably the biggest city I have visited so far, (not counting Frankfurt and Stuttgart because I hardly saw them in my brief transit through) I think it has over 115,000 people so I guess about the size of Dunedin. I managed to catch the end of a really cool fruit and vegie market in the city centre, so I will be definitely making use of that again in the near future.
Only a week and a half to Asia arrives now, which is pretty exciting. Hopefully, the nice weather continues for another month so she can have a nice break out of the NZ winter.
Another reason for the sparcity of posts this week is that I received this new German language linkword learning CD-ROM. It takes the chore factor out of learning a new language and uses a kind of mega memory word association technique to help learn the language. For me, it is working really well as I'm starting to recognise alot more written words and also pick up a litttle more of the conversations. Although, it's still a slow process. Oh for a language brain implant.
Okay, so no photos today. I haven't taken any since my journey down south last weekend.
Tschus,
Brad
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