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Lunchtime in Germany! Flo, make that a ham&cheese sandwich and a bowl of lentil soup for me. I feel like contributing a little to the greenhouse effect [:P] Last day of September! My own forecast of a nice start into the new month seems to be proven wrong, when I look outside. Just the usual "Schietwedder", for which my region is famous. I drove to the nearest place selling Smart cars, which is about half an hour away. While driving through the countryside, I noticed that Mother Nature seems to be in a haste these days. Not only have the leaves turned into a reddish brown, but you have to watch where you are going, as the acorns and chrestnuts are falling from the trees. Add to that the flocks of geese and cranes heading south, and you have all signs of an early winter in this neck of the woods. I am not really looking forward to that. Well, I took a close look to that Smart car in question and my verdict is simple - that´s a car of no real use to anyone. It rides a little higher, but getting in and out of it is not so much different from my current Volkswagen. So that´s back to square 1 in the search of a suitable vehicle. Maybe I should read this as a sign to forget about looking for another car and keep this one until we will have to pack up and go, which may not be very far from today. I´ll be spending the afternoon watching the British comedy series "Oh, Dr. Beeching". Dr. Beeching was the head of British Rail, who is responsible for the closure of nearly all of BR´s branchlines in the early 1960s, a measure undertaken to minimize losses and reinstall profitability. A third of BR´s main- and branchline mileage went out of service as a consequence, but the move failed to achieve its objective. 50 years later, it spawned the idea to a rather entertaining comedy series of typical British flavor, filmed at Arley Station (dubbed Hatley in the film) along the preserved Severn Valley Railway. <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/0avWP1_gpIE" width="425" height="350"></iframe> Enjoy!
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