The Coffee House

[Frank F.]

Drop me a line if you come. I need a few days in advance to prepare for a visit and clear my schedule.

 

[table1349]

Love the picture of the vintage car, in front of the building where you can buy hifi equipment and Spanish wine...? quite a combination. I'm trying not to imagine Frank walking down the street in a hospital gown, shopping in there...

You boys had an interesting evening.

Change of plans today so picture taking will wait for another day. Going to be a lazy Sunday.

You all think I leave the house with my naked butt exposed to the weather? We are, I must say, quite civilized here in good old Germany. We even have a female as "leader of the free world" to offer. OK. We are badly Celsius and Meters and not "god's own country"...

Have you tried German wine or one of 292 Michelin star restaurants recently?

You will be overwhelmed of how much our small country has to offer. Condensed to the area of California we easily put in 2000 years of living history per square meter.

I would love to visit again. Lived in Kitzingen an Main for almost 3 years. Germany was a lovely country and we traveled it extensively as well as the rest of Europe. I do have a special love of the Bavarian region. The people, the food, the beer, the culture as well as the beautiful German Alps to the south.

 

[SquarePeg37 8]

Check our new super cool snorkel masks. Very excited to try these out in the ocean. Heading to Bermuda next month for some snorkeling. These things are great. So much nicer to breathe normally through your nose and mouth instead of using the traditional snorkel mouth piece.

 

[limr30 3]

Those look interesting. Have fun in Bermuda!

In other news, our power is out again. Went out for about half a day yesterday and when I came home tonight, it was out again. Charming.

 

[table1349]

Check our new super cool snorkel masks. Very excited to try these out in the ocean. Heading to Bermuda next month for some snorkeling. These things are great. So much nicer to breathe normally through your nose and mouth instead of using the traditional snorkel mouth piece.

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Okay, I have to ask, what happens if you click the button that says "Click"? Inquiring minds want to know.

 

[SquarePeg37 8]

Check our new super cool snorkel masks. Very excited to try these out in the ocean. Heading to Bermuda next month for some snorkeling. These things are great. So much nicer to breathe normally through your nose and mouth instead of using the traditional snorkel mouth piece.

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Okay, I have to ask, what happens if you click the button that says "Click"? Inquiring minds want to know.

That's just a sticker for the assembly. The snorkel pipe is removable for easier storage/travel.

 

[Gary A.]

Check our new super cool snorkel masks. Very excited to try these out in the ocean. Heading to Bermuda next month for some snorkeling. These things are great. So much nicer to breathe normally through your nose and mouth instead of using the traditional snorkel mouth piece.

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Good stuff. Most likely an easier learning curve than the old fashion kind. I think most people had a problem keeping a proper seal around the mouthpiece.

With the larger faceplate = more air ... is it tough to dive? How hard is it to clear?

 

[Gary A.]

Those look interesting. Have fun in Bermuda!

In other news, our power is out again. Went out for about half a day yesterday and when I came home tonight, it was out again. Charming.

That sucks. Gary can't remember the last time he lost power. Today he cooked the brisket outside on the inductive cookware for about five hours. No power = no dinner.

 

[Frank F.]

Love the picture of the vintage car, in front of the building where you can buy hifi equipment and Spanish wine...? quite a combination. I'm trying not to imagine Frank walking down the street in a hospital gown, shopping in there...

You boys had an interesting evening.

Change of plans today so picture taking will wait for another day. Going to be a lazy Sunday.

You all think I leave the house with my naked butt exposed to the weather? We are, I must say, quite civilized here in good old Germany. We even have a female as "leader of the free world" to offer. OK. We are badly Celsius and Meters and not "god's own country"...

Have you tried German wine or one of 292 Michelin star restaurants recently?

You will be overwhelmed of how much our small country has to offer. Condensed to the area of California we easily put in 2000 years of living history per square meter.

I would love to visit again. Lived in Kitzingen an Main for almost 3 years. Germany was a lovely country and we traveled it extensively as well as the rest of Europe. I do have a special love of the Bavarian region. The people, the food, the beer, the culture as well as the beautiful German Alps to the south.

Bavaria is easily understood but this is not the only great part.

The Rhine Valley offers a plethora of culinary and landscape forms, starting from Basel in Suisse, through the French border, mixing the best of German and French culture, further down to the "Weinstraße" and the Frankfurt conglomerate, up the Mittelrhein with all the Castles and extraordinary wine selection, the Moselle part and then the most Italian kind of Street culture in Bonn and Cologne with Carnival and beer.

I cannot say that there is anything worth mentioning in the Rhine valley North of Cologne, but the people who live there have a different view...

Beyond:

The Münsterland teeming of history. Best place to bike, no hills, great infrastructure. Eat directly in the villages at the places where the locals eat and eat what the locals eat, drink what they drink. Just perfect. Münster itself is as great as Bonn. Highly recommended!

Thuringia, Goethe's own country. Wow. What a cool place to lay low and calm.

Berlin, Hamburg, ....

 

[Frank F.]

So the guy who wrote the book that marks a change of tide in medicine also writes a blog. Get the book! Do not wait. If you want to read a bit beforehand, start here:

Functional Medicine New York City | Microbiome Diet Principle

Microbiome Diet Plan | Rebalance Gut Flora

Microbiome Diet | Microbiome Diet Supplements

 

[vintagesnaps]

I have a distant cousin from Hameln. Maybe not that distant, her grandfather and mine were brothers - mine came here, hers stayed there. Lost touch so don't know if she still lives there, but she found us and came to visit once; she spent the summer traveling around the US, and brought us a family tree she did going back to around the 1500s.

I dunno, the way you boys were talking I thought Frank went trotting around the neighborhood in a hospital gown dragging along a plastic bag on a pole... jk


That snorkeling attire is so fashionable too!

 

[SquarePeg37 8]

Check our new super cool snorkel masks. Very excited to try these out in the ocean. Heading to Bermuda next month for some snorkeling. These things are great. So much nicer to breathe normally through your nose and mouth instead of using the traditional snorkel mouth piece.

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Good stuff. Most likely an easier learning curve than the old fashion kind. I think most people had a problem keeping a proper seal around the mouthpiece.

With the larger faceplate = more air ... is it tough to dive? How hard is it to clear?

they arrived when we got home from the beach so have not used other than the pool. My daughter did some shallow free dives and flips in the pool and no water got in. She did say her head kept floating up so a bit more difficult to dive. There is some type of contraption in the snorkel pipe that closes when water tries to enter so you don't need to clear it. The instructions say for surface only not for diving. There is a drain mechanism in the chin just in case it leaks so you don't have to take it off to get any water out. They didn't fog up which is nice. Much better than the old style with the mouthpiece. Not recommended for those with beards as you won't be able to get it to seal.

 

[table1349]

Check our new super cool snorkel masks. Very excited to try these out in the ocean. Heading to Bermuda next month for some snorkeling. These things are great. So much nicer to breathe normally through your nose and mouth instead of using the traditional snorkel mouth piece.

View attachment 143006

Okay, I have to ask, what happens if you click the button that says "Click"? Inquiring minds want to know.

That's just a sticker for the assembly. The snorkel pipe is removable for easier storage/travel.

Okay, that makes sense.

That is a pretty techie looking mask that reminded me of the underwater fight scene from Thunderball. I didn't want someone coming up, pushing the button and the mask coming all apart so SPECTRE could get away with the two nuclear bombs.

 

[Frank F.]

Beethoven's birthplace has Beethoven at the centre

 

[Frank F.]

Tonight I escaped with my father for a very decent supper in the Schumann's .... Yet another composer who lived in Bonn, a couple of composers Robert & Clara to be exact