Update: Trip is over and it was very amazing!
Some highlights:
ElrondMcBong:
Took us around the Erfurt Christmas markets + medieval markets, sampling the mulled wine (incl. met and flaming sugar one too). Explored inside cathedral after and climbed up to organ loft, then told to go back down by the organ player. Got some mustard and mustard flavour schnapps for fun. The local sausage was amazing! Really loved it. I must get those Repeat pack WRs up for you to watch on recsource...
insane guy:
Very cool and fun place with projector movie room: 100% AKB approved.
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Enjoyed walking around the local markets with you and visiting a local Turkish restaurant too. Berlin ended being our longest walking day out at 20km in a day, but we got to see so much nice architecture and enjoyed ourselves. The Fountain was a pretty nice movie to watch, and being able to do the interview for the doco was sick: I hope you can get your inspiration going for further interviews for the doco.
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It was also surreal making a couple of quick ballelevs with one of the levmaking icons of the world!
Bludek:
Prague was so good! The castle and cathedral were both beautiful and much fun, and all the local food and beer was just excellent.
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I would return again one day I hope. Really loved the old pub from 1499: that beer was outstanding and totally drinkable, could ez drink all night. Glad you got the laptop out
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it was very fun playing a few balles and making levs too! Still cannot believe how cheap the beer is.
sleap:
So cool to meet one of the oldschool kuskis, in Vienna! It's true what they say: first thing is a beer in your hand, which is always really top.
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It was a joy to spend Christmas in Vienna, walking around in the markets for food and seeing the beautiful streets and buildings. The playgrounds there are so much cooler than in Australia, the difference is crazy! Very enjoyable to chat and make levs/balle them. Perhaps you'll drop in online once in a while?
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It will be a welcome sight.
pawq:
Really happy that you were able to come out to London, it was totally worth it to hang out all afternoon/evening going to a few pubs and seeing the important buildings around.
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Really hope to meet again sometime, so I will have to see if I can get along to an international elma meet.
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I will say that the tube is a really neat way to get around: simple enough and nice that you don't have to wait long time for trains around city. I am used to 15+min waits regularly, so train times are always looked up here in Australia.
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Just like in Vienna, I should return at another time to spend more time in London and really get to see everything.
Thank you everyone for hosting me and/or meeting up. Jo and I loved the trip and couldn't have done it like this without your help. We have many great memories of this trip and I hope to make more memories with even more kuskis in future.
I will have to post some photos sometime, but those in the WhatsApp group will have many already.
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