Frankfurt in bullet points

[motetus]

- temve and shrieking_ell's wedding was the BEST WEDDING EVER and they really are a ridiculously adorable pair. Thank you both for such a wonderful evening, I enjoyed myself so much that I may have even committed dancing (dancing! I never dance!). I also had a lovely time getting to know lea_ndra, raina_at and spes_unica who before Saturday I've only ever known as names on other people's LJs and were really awesome people. franzi1981, I am so embarrassed that my introduction consisted of me blurting out hello and then stumbling away. If I had been more sober, I really would have tried harder!

- goblin_dae and I managed to successfully navigate Frankfurt for a few days and avoided getting into too much trouble. We even escaped the human trafficking trade! (no really, we were in line for train tickets to the airport when this guy asked us if we wanted to share a car with him to somewhere like Essen, and our first thoughts really were - Taken!) Aside from going through a lot of awesome German food, ice-cream and beer, we visited the archaeological museum, a Roman fort with the_little_owl who makes the best ever tour guide/translator, and the zoo. I won't bore you with all my zoo photos (and the Roman ones are all ones I only took for more Eagle art references), but here is



- Also this weekend I found out that a) it is not advisable to put contacts in after chopping up a massive amount of bird's eye chilies, and b) neither should you try to rinse your eye out with what you thought was just normal saline contact lens solution, but was actually the stuff with hydrogen peroxide in it. OW. I'm surprised I still have eyeballs left. But if you're trying to come up with a 28 Days Later zombie costume on the cheap, it's very effective.

- Dear Germans, please feel free to take over the UK whenever you want. Häagen-Daz cafes at train stations? YES PLEASE.

- Goats! I love goats and I GOT TO PET GOATS. What lovely animals they are with their adorable beards, little butty horns and precious bleating noises. WHERE ARE MY GOATS goblin_dae, I WANT MY GOATS, AAAAALLLLL THE GOATS.

- The wife reminded me just why I tolerate him and baked a huge chocolate cake for me to return to. ♥ ♥ ♥

Comments

[inyadreems.livejournal.com]

Fun! I'm glad you heeded the warnings from "Taken"!

[motetus.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, I think I wouldn't have had a long career as a sex slave. "What do you call that? Pathetic! Put it back in your trousers before you embarrass yourself further. Now go fetch me a cup of tea!"

...yeah, I think the traffickers would be deserving of more pity than me.

[the-little-owl.livejournal.com]

I'm a crappy translator, and you know it, but the gorilla is cute!

[motetus.livejournal.com]

Hey, you were pretty good! And better a crappy translator than no translator at all.

I was so lucky with that gorilla shot - the light was horrible, the glass was dirty, but I caught the split-second that he glanced over his shoulder at me.

[franzi1981.livejournal.com]

Hahah, no worries. Next time you're here or next time I'm over, we can catch up on that ;)

[motetus.livejournal.com]

I shall stay away from the beer next time then! :D

...um, probably not. German beer is just too good!

[caffeinatedkate.livejournal.com]

Ow, your poor eyes! I hope they're okay now.
Where I work Superglue is nicknamed Eyedrops because of a most unfortunate mix-up made by someone who once worked for us.

Goats are indeed adorable.

[motetus.livejournal.com]

Oh god, I've heard of someone who mixed up their eyedrops and eardrops, but superglue + eyes has got to be even worse. Ow.

Goats are amazing! I really want a few of my own but I dunno if they're really great apartment pets.

[shakesmears.livejournal.com]

Glad you had fun!

Love the photo.

[motetus.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I was hoping for pictures of bonobos having sex like bonobos do, but they were being spoilsports. Still, gorillas have such nice, thoughtful faces - you almost forget that they're probably pretty terrifying when you piss them off.

[augustbird.livejournal.com]

I HOPE YOUR EYES ARE OKAY.

HERE, LET ME HEAL THEM WITH

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[motetus.livejournal.com]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

Oh my god OH MY GOD LOOK AT ALL THE GOATS!!! AWWWW I WANT THEM ALL. Oh gosh, I just want to gather them into a big cuddly goaty pile andn roll in them. THEY ARE SO ADORABLE. Especially that last one, he looks like Evil Mastermind Goat.

...I'm looking up websites about care of pet pygmy goats. FFS I DON'T EVEN HAVE A GARDEN.

[the-little-owl.livejournal.com]

Hm, that sounds like an incentive to go on with your PhD: get the title --> get a better paid job --> get a flat with a garden --> get a goat.

[motetus.livejournal.com]

So it turns out that because goats are classed as livestock you have to register them with DEFRA and go through all sorts of paperwork if you want to move them... but if I had the time and space for them, I would totally get a small herd.

[ainsoph15.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD, LOOK AT THOSE ADORABLE BASTARDS ♥____♥

[archaeologist-d.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you had loads of fun. The fort sounds fantastic!

[motetus.livejournal.com]

The fort and the museum in it was fantastic - I had a Roman lunch there and narrowly avoided spending hundreds of euros on a lorica segmentata replica, but only because they didn't have one in my size.

[ainsoph15.livejournal.com]

WELCOME HOME :D Yay, your weekend sounds like it was awesome what with all the beer and dancing and ROMAN FORT HIJINKS (and I wondered why shrieking_ell's lj handle looked familiar - turns out we have a few old POTC fandom friends in common! OH LJ, SO SMALL AND COZY ♥)

I LOVE that gorilla photo. It's fantastic - so expressive. And I love the way he's leaning on his fist! :D

Oh, ow, your poor eyes! I hope you are okay now :( :( :( I managed to flick the tiniest speck of vindaloo sauce into my eye while I was stirring my dinner on the hob last night, and was hopping about the kitchen like a twat going 'OH GOD, RESIST THE URGE TO RUB IT, YOU IDIOT', then stuck my head under the tap and sprayed water everywhere. I AM SO TOGETHER AND SUPER-SUAVE AND MY MUM WOULD BE PROUD.

GOAAAAAAATS! TINY WEE GOATS :D WITH THEIR DISARMINGLY CUTE FACES AND THEIR ADORABLE SLEEPY EYES. THEN THEY RUN UP BEHIND YOU AND BUTT YOU IN THE ARSE WITH THEIR LITTLE POINTY HORNS (I am not speaking from experience. No. Not at all. I have never been tackle-glomped to the ground and trampled frolicked on while trying to feed them. That has not happened to me.)

[motetus.livejournal.com]

Ow, ow, vindaloo + eyeballs are not a good combination either. And you WERE super-suave compared to my reaction which was to try to wash out my eye with milk... using a teaspoon. No, I don't know why I thought that was a good idea either, especially when you need EYES to pour and that was how I flooded my kitchen counters and floor with milk right when I was supposed to be catching the bus to the airport.

GOAAAAATS! I need to get the photos from my intrepid travelling companion and for once I won't care about putting photos of myself up because everyone will be so distracted by the awesome goats. Aw, you got beaten up by goats? ADORABLE. These ones were very laid-back goats, but I would not have complained if they wanted to use me as a trampoline.

PS. Omg, omg, more Pia Fidelis. I have been trying so hard to sneakily read it at work today but my supervisor kept walking past and wondering why I was grinning so much. STUPID SUPERVISOR.

[barking-cats.livejournal.com]

oh my, I love that picture, its gorgeous. the composition and colors are beautiful and you caught a great moment, his expression is so pensive

[motetus.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :D I'm so chuffed I got a picture of his face - he had his back to me for all but a second. I try not to anthropomorphize animals, but gorillas have such similar expressions to us humans that it's hard to not start wondering what they're thinking of.

[barking-cats.livejournal.com]

Probably thinking about crapping, having sex, sleeping or eating bananas. Pretty much like us indeed :)
I get it about not anthropomorphizing but you didn't add a legend to the picture (well, you know, unless people consider what you post as an actual legend -which would also mean they'd read your post, it's yet to be proven ;)), or an oral commentary or something, so I think it's just a capture of one real moment. Anyway, I just really love the colours and the eyes. Don't you want to do something with photography ? Next to biology and stuff too hard for me to understand. You're really good at it