Travelling on a Small Budget

Travelling on a Small Budget

Subject: Report for Brochure (Tourist board)

Name: Markus Bender

Date 14.05.2007

Introduction

Lowestoft is an often forgotten town on the sun rise coast of East Anglia, but there is no reason for it to hide. In fact it is a very nice town, which is capable of combining both offers for decent holidays and affordable prices. Attractions don’t have to be expensive either for culturally interested people or for those searching for a surge of adrenalin; they are on offer throughout the year.

Situation

This city is attractively situated on Suffolk’s east coast, centered between the harbour Great Yarmouth and the sunny and sophisticated Southwold. Beside the attractive sandy beach, the High Street invites visitors to stroll and shop. In addition, there are some places of interest, i.e. a lighthouse, the fish market and the fun fare which are frequently visited, as well as the most easterly point of England, called Ness Point. Especially cheap accommodation is situated at Marine Parade, which is parallel to the strip of beach, only 30 meters away.

Accommodation

Lowestoft is well known for its incredibly inexpensive B&Bs (Bed and Breakfast). Facing and therefore allowing a nice view to the seaside, Marine Parade’s B&Bs are placed at the heart of the town, where life is pulsing.

Twin bedded rooms are available for only £50 per night per room mostly with En-Suite bathrooms. The spacious bedrooms are done up in the original Victorian style. TVs serve sky and a ‘Full English Breakfast’ is always inclusive. Single rooms cost £35 per night and parking bays in front of the houses are for free.

How to snack

B&Bs always require some lunch and supper at extra expense, which is why we recommend the following: There are plenty of Fast Food outlets in Lowestoft e.g. KFC at Marine Parade; McDonald’s, Subway, Café Express, etc. in Lowestoft’s High Street. For more health awareness there is a canteen opposite Marks & Spencer, which serves half organic but also cheap food; in fact it is much tastier than it looks like. Pubs are at the upper end of the High Street and the Kebab shop opens after 2 pm.

Conclusion

Overall, Lowestoft is recommended as an attractive town with plenty of facilities, which guarantee holidays without boredom. It has met the expectations of hundreds of people year after year which is largely due to good value for money.

Not An Advert

I don't wanna make an advert on this page, It's merely funny such a picture. There is only one problem: Is this development a positive one or is it negative for us as customers? I'm really not sure about it.
To get mobiles wothout the control of SCHUFA seems to be a dream and too nice to be truth. Just gorgeous. And I can't find the hidden catch, is there one? Why would a company start such a business? It must be kind of illegal at least it looks like.
But what if this development goes on? It could become normal. And for every medal has two sides there must be the other side. The SCHUFA is somehow a protector for everybody, not only the companies. For if we don't have money and if we can't afford to buy anything it might save us from getting bancrupt, at least the ones who can't handle money. It is not a joke, there are so many people with the lack of sense for money, much more than you'd think of. Not long ago there was an article about children who lost more than €1000 within a month. Only because of their mobile.
This new 'treat' to buy a mobile without SCHUFA seems to be a good thing for the one of us but it might be dangerous for our society if it becomes day to day custom.

Wie sich die Menschheit durch die globale Erderwaermung schlaengelt

Mit Dem Snake Board Durch Die Globale Erderwaermung

Wie viele Leute in London, so hats auch mich gepackt. Am Wochenende mit Sommerwetter (in anderen Regionen Englands soll es angeblich regnen ;-) hehe!) gehe ich gerne in den Hyde Park um dort meine Runden zu drehend. Snake boarding is a decent sport. Ich muss sagen, es macht wirklich fun.

Viele Menschen sind der Meinung, global warming sei eirklich, wirklich schlimm. Sie machen wirklich ein gezehter und gemecker, man muesse dies und man muesse das tun, damit die Erde sich wieder einer gruenen und ewigkeitsandauernden Surface erfreuen kann. Das waere mir eindeutig zu nass hier in London, wenn wir uns nicht die globaler Erderwaermung zu nuetze machen koennten. Es ist warm genug, und das im Maerz und es ist gruen, solange man sich an den richtigen Stellen aufhaelt. Wie ich in einem frueheren Artikel schon geschrieben habe, ist London die gruenste Stadt ihrer Groesse. Man kann durch die Qual der Wahl in Bezug auf Parks in London wirklich verrueckt werden. Ich freue mich einfach und nutze das "viel zu warme" Wetter zum snake boarden.

Warum sind die Leute alle fuer Stillstand? Ich war schon immer der Meinung, dass alles was lebendig ist, sich veraendern muss. Es ist ein Fact of Nature. Schon durch mein Chemielehrer habe ich den unvergesslichen Sulfur als Proteus unter den Elementen admired. Doch warum wollen die ganzen Wissenschaftler und ihre Fans, dass sich die Erde nicht mehr veraendert? Ganz klar, sie bangen um ihre Existenz.

Doch wie schon vor ca. 75 Jahren ein Beispiel gezeigt hat, koennte der konservierende Trend auch diesmal fatal sein. Dieses Bangen um die persoenliche Zukunft vieler Menschen fuehrte dazu, dass es Adolf Hitler, der gerade erst die deutsche Staatsbuergerschaft bekommen hatte und somit Deutscher und nicht Oesterreicher war, seine Partei in einen quantitativ erreichten Hoehenflug schwingen konnte.
(Siehe http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstagswahl_Juli_1932)

Es mag weit hergeholt klingen und das ist es auch. Dennoch moechte ich noch einen zweiten Grund angeben, weshalb ich der Meinung bin, Global Warming koennte in gewisser Weise schlimm sein aber wahrscheinlich unverhinderbar und vielleicht ist das auch gut so. Niemand will sicherlich mit Freuden aussterben. Es recht kein Mensch. Waere es wirklich das Ende allen Lebens oder gaebe es womoeglich eine andere Form von Leben? Ein Gebiet, mit dem sich viele Wissenschaftler ebenfalls beschaeftigen, vorallem Geisteswissenschaftler. Um den Punkt nicht zu verfehlen, moechte ich mein anderes Beispiel auffuehren: Es ist allgemein bekannt, dass die Kontinente frueher (vor millionen von Jahren) alle zusammengebunden waren und einen einzigen Kontinent gebildet hatten. Was weniger bekannt ist und ziemlich unglaubwuerdig klingen mag, allerdings moeglich ist, ist die Theorie, dass es damals schon Lebendiges gegeben hat, das in voellig vereinfachter und luftiger oder geistiger Form im Raum existiert hat. Formen, aus denen der Mensch hervorgegangen sein soll.

Was ist in diesen vielen Jahren von diesem Zeitpunkt bis heute passiert? Die Kontinente haben sich getrennt, es haben sich eisige Pole gebildet undirgendwann sind Menschen und Tiere in ihrer koerperlichen Form entstanden. Alles in allem ein riesiges Umwaelzen und veraendern, welches mich im Hinblick auf die bevorstehende Hitzewelle ziemlich kuehl laesst. Auch die populaere Eiszeit, die durch den Zeichentrickfilm "Ice Age" viele Fans gewonnen hat, ist ein Beispiel dafuer, dass wir als Menschen sehr schwach sind, des Progress nicht verhindern koennen und Veraenderungen zulassen muessen.

Als ich zum ersten Mal eine aehnliche Meinung von englischen Wissenschaftlern gelesen habe, dachte ich, dieser Mist koenne ja nur in der Metro stehen, eine Zeitung, die umsonst ist und nicht besonderes Niveau verspricht. Inzwischen habe ich ein gewisses Interesse an dieser Idee entwickelt und beginne mehr und mehr dahinter zu stehen, dass es im Leben immer weiter gehen muss. Auch das Snake Board hat mich gelehrt, wie fatal es ist, mit dem Schlaengeln in voller Fahrt aufzuhoeren. Es gibt in der Natur einfach keinen Stillstand und erst recht keinen Rueckwaertsgang.

Haarige Zeiten im Land der Geweihten

Was ist dran an dem Geruecht, dass der MI-6 (Britischer Geheimdienst) auf der Suche nach einem Schwerverbrecher, der sich durch Londons Untergrund schlaengelt, den Hauptverdaechtigen vor Gericht nicht identifizieren konnte?

Nun, LondonPaper berichtete letzten Samstag, dass der gewievte Terrorist auf Grund haarstraeubender koerperlicher Veraenderungen in der Schoenheitspraxis "Johanna Loibnegger" stationiert in Pimlico nicht identifizierbar war und der Fall musste erst einmal gestoppt werden und der beruehmt beruechtigte auf freien Fuss gesetzt werden. Seit dem macht er Londons Urban Streets mit einem dunklen wobbeligen Gefaehrt unsicher. LondonPaper wird ihm auf der Spur bleiben und wieder berichten.

Fuer weitere Pigs schaut hier:
http://pigpage2.blogspot.com/2007/03/haarige-zeiten.html

Eye Witnessing Late At Night

Last night I have been an eyewitness of a theft.
It was the alarm of a car that went off, which made me look out of the window. It might have been our car, you never know. But it was only a rather posh looking "chelsea traktor" of the brand Lexus. It happens all the time and nobody cares. In fact, forget about watch neighbourhood having experinced this. I had many reasons why I didn't rang the police very soon but I was the one who finally did it.
"Is it 999?" I wasn't sure about this, I have to admit! But you have to think of a possibility in such a situation. I just poked 999 without unlocking the keypad, quite tricky :-).
The police arrived just in time to arrest the escaping thief. And I had to make my statement until I eventually got to bed for sleeping for about 4 hours only.
This is the short story and you can see the pics of the car. It seems to me like a dream but I still feel like a hero, somehow.

Coming back from IKEA I have just missed the owner of the car who brought a bottle of wine in order to celebrate me as a hero ;-) funny.

Familien wirren in London (letzte Rundmail)

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Hallo liebe Freunde,

Ich moechte euch mal wieder updaten, denn hier ist wieder unglaublich viel passiert. Leider gibt es nicht immer nur gute nachrichten. Genau genommen sah es sogar ziemlich boese aus,
als mein host-daddy vor rund zwei Wochen ins Krankenhaus musste.

Inzwischen hat er 3 OPs hinter sich gebracht, war ne ganze Weile auf Intensivstation und ist nun auf dem Weg der Besserung. Das Problem war ein Blutgerinsel, dass den Hauptzufluss zum Darm verstopft hat. Dadurch ist ein grosser Teil des Darms abgestorben und sie mussten ihm fast 3 Meter entfernen.

Auch Jack hat sich das Bein getwistet und konnte ne Weile nicht richtig laufen, war dauernd "dad-sick" und hatte somit zwei Wochen Ferien anstatt einer. Doch das Skifahren fuer die Family musste ausfallen. Auch ich haette Ferien gut gebrauchen koennen, doch im College gings weiter und dadurch, dass die family nicht in die franzoesischen Berge fahren konnte, hatte ich auch keine ruhige Woche wie geplant. Stattdessen hab ich ueberall mit angepackt und getan was getan werden musste.

Eines lernt man hier als Aupair auf jeden Fall: denke niemals, du koenntest dich ausruhen. Wenn immer ein Tag etwas easier geplant ist als normal, wird es irgend einen Zwischenfall geben und du musst noch mehr hektizieren.

Meine Host-mum ist dauernd am hin und her rennen zwischen Krankenhaus und Home. In der ersten schlimmen Phase, als John (host-vater) nicht bei bewusstsein war, hat sie ihm ein Buch gelesen. Naechte lang. Bevor sie jedoch zum Ende kam, hat sie ihm gesagt, er werde den Rest vorgelesen bekommen, sobald er wieder zurueck sei. Eine Art druck, dass er von sich aus schnell gesund werden solle. :-) Auf der ganzen Welt denken viele Menschen an ihn und ich bin sicher, dass es ihm hilft.

Die Fortschritte, die er jeden Tag macht, sind erstaunlich. Zumal, wenn man bedenkt, dass er um ein Haar gestorben waere, ehrlich gesagt, er haette niemals ueberlebt, wenn er nicht so fit gewesen waere. Mit seinen beinahe 60 Jahren ist er jeden Morgen schwimmen gegangen, hat immer Cricket und andere Fun und Sportspiele gespielt und sich mit seinem Sohn so viel beschaeftigt, wie mancher junge und fitte Vater niemals im Traum dran denken wuerde. In fact, er wird vielleicht in den naechsten zwei Wochen aus dem Krankenhaus entlassen, zwar vorerst mit so einem Beutel in dem sich der ganze Unrat aus dem Koerper sammelt, aber auch das wird in wenigen Monaten wieder zusammen geflickt. Ich hoffe, er kann bei seinem 60. Geburtstag mit dabei sein, wenn die Party am 24. Maerz anlaeuft, denn vieles ist schon arrangiert und manchen Leuten kann nicht unbedingt abgesagt werden...
So ploetzlich kann es gehen, dass ein komplettes Familienleben auf den Kopf gestellt wird. aber es geht wirklich mit riesenschritten wieder in bessere Zeiten.

ich wuensche euch allen eine frohe zeit und bleibt gesund!
gruss markus

Receipe for a gluten free bread.

Recipe for a gluten free bread.

...and it's really tasteful

1. . take 13 oz (770 g) of a flour mix

It contains 8 oz (225 g) of Doves and 5 oz (545 g) of a mixture (Rice Flour, Potato, Tapioca, Quinoa)

2. 1 oz Baby Rice

3. 1 teaspoon (5 ml) Xanthan Gum

4. 2 tablespoons (one tblsp=15 ml – so take 30 ml) Sugar

5. 1 sachet (7ml/7g) Yeast

6. 1 tsp Salt

7. 1 tsp Dary Free (vanilla flavour)

8. 60 Egg replacer (for people who can't process egg)

Put the ingredients above all together in a bowl and mix them with the following fluids:

9. ¼ cup (60 ml) Sunflower Oil

10. ½ cup (125 ml) Soya Milk (for people who can't process Milk) or Milk

11. ¾ cup (180 ml) warm water

12. !!! 200 ml warm water (it goes with the Egg Replacer)

!!! Be careful with number (11) don't use the whole of 200ml, only if needed to get it right.

Put the entire stuff in the bread bake machine and start the program:

Basic / Large / Dark

It needs 4 hours inside the machine. It is very important to open the machine directly after program has finished. Put the bread out of the bowl and enjoy it.

The Descent of Quality within the Improvement of Lifestyle

Ueber die Dekadenz von Qualitaet, erreicht durch die Bemuehung um Verbesserung des Lebensstandards

It was supposed to become a nice evening everything was planned more or less thoroughly. Firstly Casino Royale in Fulham Broadway Cinema VUE, Secondly The Waysters live in the Archway Tavern. The third appointment was not planned, not yet. But it came what may and one action led to the next like a one secment of a chain leads to the next link until you come to the weakest segment in the chain that can't stand the pressure.

After a long day in the British Library which is situated between King's Cross Sankt Pancras and Euston Station, having read in books, written a proposal with the illustrative but imaginative purpose to establish a Cricket Club as an extra curricular activity at school, I was merely hungry. Longing for a proper English fastfood I went earlier to fulham in order to have plenty of time for eating Fish&Chips. It was 1.5 hours to the meeting at the VUE which led to the improvement of living standard. I had the choice between Piccadilly and Victoria Line both would bring me to the broadway with the only difference Piccadilly meant going backwards a few steps down Euston Road and Victoria would show me a new views. My dicision was easy after I had improved my lifestyle earlier this day by taking the bus in the bright sunshine (I'm on the bright site of life...) instead of using the underground but losing time I went up the road to Euston station, took Victoria Line, listened to Nova International and read Hermann Hesse's "Unterm Rad" which I had found in my college's library. Unfortunately I didn't hear the important notice from the off that told me that District Line was clodesed at Victoria Station.

All this made me more and more hungry and when I finally reached Fulham I would eat everything. I couldn't get my beloved Fish&Chips, rushed to get a Kebap, back to cinema, got a ticket while I was eating my strange doener whaich is in London so different from what I was used to in Germany. Anyway, 007 met all my expectations, in fact it was better than I had thought. It has found back to more style and is an actionpacked movie, I simply like it.

I went to the place where the waysters were supposed to play. The Archway is an interesting place for gigs which provides people in the back of the room with a live tv supply. We decided to sit down on the sofa for I wasn in such a good mood since I had heard about my preferred band's cancellation. Headaching and with the feeling of making the best of it, Britta and me were talking making jokes and just had fun. It was nice but not like one of these gigs where you can't stop jumping around in an overpowering emotion of ecstasy.

Finally we went to Belushi's which is my most frequent used pub in London. It has a blue exterior and the inside is stuffed with postered of movies, bands and other interesting people living flat on the wall. My head became heavier and heavier after a while as if it wouldn't have remembered the massage I had in The Archway. I felt my face turning from beige to white and an hour later in McDonnald's it must had turned green. The way home was a horror for I had been waiting and waiting and waiting in the cold dead of night. I started shivvering and still the bloody bus didn't turn up. A different bus took me a few bus stops from where I went home to see the right bus arriving almost the same time at my bus stop to get off. But merely I couldn't have knowen...

My bed was really glad to see me and kept me inside its duvets until my body has been recovered and I have been able to sit down at the computer to wright this story. I bet there are hundreds of tense mistakes but I don't feel like correcting now. I'll do it later...!

"Clear Light of Day"

"Open your eyes,
your mind feels like a new morning",
warm and comfortable beams of sunlight at her breasts,
she's opening her arms as to hug somebody.
Instead, it's our mother of all life she faces.

"White flowers, how long did I miss you?
Far away from here,
I was living in the city of God,
as they called the grey spot in the middle of nowhere.
It is more a fortress to me, built up natureless."

Glancing at her sister,
she smiles.
Reckognising pure life,
bright colours,
cruely irritations,
stain of shade and grey
on the wing of a used-to-be-angel.
White flower has lost its beauty.

Referenz: London ist eine grosse Stadt

Friday, December 08, 2006 (published on "http://blog.myspace.com/131361634" im Blog)

London ist eine groooosse stadt Vom Dorf in die Metropole Wer war nicht schon wenigstens einmal in einer Grossstadt? Warst Du etwa schon einmal in Muenchen, in Hamburg oder gar in Berlin? Alle diese Staedte nennen sich Grossstaedte, doch sie sind richtig schoen familiaer, wenn man sie mit einer richtigen Metropole vergleicht. London ist so eine Metropole, in der man durch die Strassen streift, waehrend man sich schon gar nicht mehr an dem miesen Geruch stoert den die Autos in ihren Kolonnaden sich ewig hindurchschiebend von sich geben, nimmer endend und nirgendwo beginnend, nur kurz stoppend an den roten Ampeln, zumeisst darauf achtend, nicht zu spaet ueber das wechselnde Licht der Verkehrsregelungsgeraete zu fahren, was eine Strafe von hundert Pfund nach sich ziehen koennte, falls man auch den gelben gestreiften Markierungen zum halten kommt.... Wer es aushaelt, meine ewig langen Saetze, verbunden durch Kommata, immer noch etwas anhaengend, situationsbeschreibend oder erklaerend, tiefer und tiefer verschalchtelnd, wem es tatsechlich liegt, diese aufgereihten Buchstaben und Woerter zu lesen - denn etwas anderes ist ein gutes Buch nicht, bevor man es gelesen hat und damit sozusagen der schluessel zu einer imaginaeren Welt - oder wer sogar Freude daran hat darf diesen Artikel gerne durch klicken auf obigen (Dernbachwort) Link weiterlesen. puh. punkt. atmen, ATMEN!

Crazy people are all around the world!

Little Miss Sunshine

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/littlemisssunshine/trailer-high.html

Why going abroad? what's so interesting about it?
Mostly because you meet strange or even crazy guys.
You can't help yourself you just have to think about their habits an deverything is so different to what you know from your home country. But that's exactly the point. They are different. JUST different! Not crazy. For them you may be strange as well. Talking about this kind of people is funny wehn they travel together in a car being pulled out by the police and then: "Everybody just pretend to be normal!" What the hell a sentence is this and I'd have recommended this movie.

London is Music

"The Waysters""The Bishops"

What's of living in London?
Even if sometimes you feel a bit of a prisoner it's easy to enjoy your time. First there are pubs, people things to see. But even more interesting are loads of bands playing gigs almost every night. Well I can't afford to go to this often but once a week might be ok.
Sometimes you get an invitation from a band like "showing off to thieves" and find out that they are only the first band playing that night. Even if you don't really know them they are your so-called "friends" on myspace. But you feel comfortable with the songs played on this page and you go to the location posted in their invitation.
There is nothing wrong about going to see a band you've never seen before, certainly not. But sometimes you might be astounded about the emptyness of the pub and especially about their loudness. This may change your opinion about this band a bit downwards and you wanna see what comes next. A band called "Morning Lane" is much stranger and you might feel delighted from the first song, even if you see the singer acting barefood. Suddenly there are a few girls in the audience changing the whole atmosphere by dancing and flirting over the border of the stage. Hours later you find out theese people are coming from hungary being more open-minded than you, pushing you back into a state of sleepyness, pulling you around in discofox dancing steps while you're not sure how to react whether to like and enjoy it or not. This goes on for a time that seems to feel like hours or even days especially for the girl you're going with this night refuses to dance with the funny foreigners while you're enjoying it more and more finding back into your role. Before going home you're friends with the drunken funny girls from hugary and exchange mobile numbers... That's life!
A third band plays a band you wouldn't remember their name afterwards. They are looking really strange a bit disabled with a guitar pressed directly underneath the player's chin and it's a bit like an extreme push-up bra's work. There are two keyboards on stage but they're not playing both the same time, it's more that one keyboarder is waiting on his chair like a monch in a church.
One flew over is the headliner tonight and as well they are looking strange in the beginning and becoming familiar from one song to the next until you admire their playing and singing style but also their acting for it's really funny. first their music listens a bit like "System Of A Down" with the holding tense of "Muse" in their voice and finally when they are playing their new songs it feel like "Dream Theater". You would definitely be keen to see them again but you have to do babysitting on the 17th. It is every time the same with you and live bands and it's a process that you go through with every band, especially when they are new. It reminds you of the five steps in connecting people the dynamic part in every group eg. in sommer camps. In the end you like every band in their speciality.
It is completely diffent to meet "The Waysters" again. They might become real friends for after their first gig one of tem were sitting at your table chatting with you having fun. Then you exchange personnal mails at myspace what leads to the fact taht you're on their guest list as "Markus plus four". Some kind of funny. But this time they are playing dead late so that your friends are sleepy when you're becoming excited for your band is on stage while this band isn't as good as they've expected. This will be the reason for their crunchy mood after concert and your reason heading for the bus instead of having a talk with your friends from the stage.
Another very, very great band are "The Bishops". I've seen them twice and it won't be the last time.