tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post2351403483597973484..comments2024-03-28T23:25:17.414+00:00Comments on Bonkers about Perfume: Games with frontiers: The Monochrome Set's 'bun fight' tour of Germany and Austria - Part 1: Karlsruhe and RavensburgVanessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-36584216947270789992015-10-11T22:20:28.595+01:002015-10-11T22:20:28.595+01:00Hi Undina,
I loved your story about carriage #9 -...Hi Undina,<br /><br />I loved your story about carriage #9 - that is exactly the nub of the problem we faced, with people aligning themselves with one or other system of counting / identification. What fun that that should have been a famous gag where you come from.<br /><br />Teapots would be a much better fit for those tea bags, but they were certainly issued with mugs here.Vanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-51453526942752834322015-10-11T22:17:32.157+01:002015-10-11T22:17:32.157+01:00Hi Ingeborg,
I am terrible for forgetting things,...Hi Ingeborg,<br /><br />I am terrible for forgetting things, and it doesn't seem to matter how often I do, I don't get any better at remembering. ;)<br /><br />Re the tea bags, you could indeed say it's the cups that are too small rather than the bags that are too big. But either way it's a mismatch!Vanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-61144553357393016402015-10-11T09:02:30.379+01:002015-10-11T09:02:30.379+01:00Your story about the missing/wrong numbering of th...Your story about the missing/wrong numbering of the carriage reminded me a very popular stand-up comedy act from my childhood. It was about a train with two carriages #9. A running joke was that "everybody knows the carriage #9 is the one that is after #8 and not the one that is before #10." As you can imagine, by the third or forth reappearance the audience was crying with laughter. I&Undinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05292100499371921334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-32472736572625744452015-10-11T02:37:27.244+01:002015-10-11T02:37:27.244+01:00So many missing things, what a journey!
I really ...So many missing things, what a journey!<br /><br />I really like the big tea bags, but the size of the cups in most hotels do not match the content of the tea bags in any way. Ingeborgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-30073452682185634272015-10-08T08:59:13.733+01:002015-10-08T08:59:13.733+01:00Hi Asali,
I was most pleasantly surprised at the ...Hi Asali,<br /><br />I was most pleasantly surprised at the brow thingy, and expected a performance more in line with the price. I liked the farfalle bedspread, I must say. I did have an urge to put a napkin ring on it too. ;)Vanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-28476803655804574082015-10-08T08:57:42.751+01:002015-10-08T08:57:42.751+01:00Hi Odiferess,
Of course not, haha. Not least beca...Hi Odiferess,<br /><br />Of course not, haha. Not least because it would have played havoc with my Easyjet baggage allowance. ;)Vanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-80514996551255060212015-10-08T08:20:15.735+01:002015-10-08T08:20:15.735+01:00Great tip with the brow thingy, looking for a new ...Great tip with the brow thingy, looking for a new one pt, so will check it out :-) I agree the farfalle bedspread is hilarious, so typical to find this kind of 'artsyness' in a German hotel, and the colour! <br />St. John's Wood! Of course. Asalihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12522693265217204063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-45729815826478615242015-10-07T22:23:33.652+01:002015-10-07T22:23:33.652+01:00I hope you stole that bedspread. There is not enou...I hope you stole that bedspread. There is not enough orange in the world. I imagine a grand dose of 1970s chypre would have accompanied it very well. xodiferesshttp://odiferess.blogspot.co.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-31643052062362451192015-10-07T10:01:14.696+01:002015-10-07T10:01:14.696+01:00Hi Val,
Thinking men indeed. Those Fahrplaene wer...Hi Val,<br /><br />Thinking men indeed. Those Fahrplaene were constantly pored over, much good that it did us, haha.<br /><br />It was very Candid Camera, my frantic antics with sinks. You would think after all my bathroom inquiries that I would have got the measure of all possible kinds of sanitary ware, but not so.<br /><br />Tea is indeed very hit and miss over there. Dodging the Scylla and Vanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-26729966955797731582015-10-07T09:56:46.340+01:002015-10-07T09:56:46.340+01:00The wurst is yet to come, hehe!The wurst is yet to come, hehe!Vanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-14362931806462319072015-10-07T07:35:15.422+01:002015-10-07T07:35:15.422+01:00"Three thinking men in two seats." The..."Three thinking men in two seats." They all look very streng. Those foot pump sinks are very deceiving. You are not the only one to randomly wave your hands around, hoping for a torrent of water to appear. All very Candid Camera. And regardless of the size of the tea bags, Europeans in general seem to find making a decent cup of tea an epic challenge. As for the pillows, some Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-77768299789462309392015-10-07T00:16:28.034+01:002015-10-07T00:16:28.034+01:00What a journey. What a journey. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13967920797621584017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-44098159415733196772015-10-06T22:59:16.387+01:002015-10-06T22:59:16.387+01:00Hi tara,
That is indeed just a picture of a perfu...Hi tara,<br /><br />That is indeed just a picture of a perfume bottle. And the tiles themselves are not really subway ones either, but give the illusion of having bevelled edges. It was more like shiny wallpaper with a tile design on it. <br /><br />Now I can't remember which Gimme Brows I had - it got nicked in the case - but I think it was too light for me, if that is possible?<br /><br />Vanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-41333920505514549372015-10-06T20:35:51.077+01:002015-10-06T20:35:51.077+01:00Is that really not a perfume bottle in front of th...Is that really not a perfume bottle in front of the tiles??? If it's 'trompe l'oeil' that's amazing!<br /><br />That Make Me Brows sounds like a great dupe and what a bargain. Too bad I don't know of a Wilkos. The Benefit version is rather dark even in light/medium, I agree. <br /><br />LOL at cross bun fight. <br /><br />I had no idea about the expanding European tea bagsTarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00825957684276136205noreply@blogger.com