Lost in Grenoble

Hallo Zusammen !
Hola todos !

Heute mache ich ein Post für die Leute aus Deutschland, Spanien, Chile, Grieschenland (vielleicht auch aus Libanon ? ) und ein bischen Frankreich... Ich hoffe, dass ich kurz genug schreiben kann, damit ich kann auch später übersetzten in Spanish... Bitte passt ihr nicht auf die Fehler !

Hoy escribo para los amigos de Alemana, de España, de Chile, de Grecia (de Libanon???) y un poco de Francia... Espero que puedo màs bien corto escribir, tambien puedo en Español traducir... No dices que hay errores !


Also Lost in Grenoble heisst dies Post, aber natürlich lost bin ich nicht... Trotzdem ich habe gesehen diese Flagge :
Así Lost in Grenoble es el nombre del Post, pero lost no soy... Sin embargo he veida esa bandera :

Erinnert ihr etwas ???
Te recuerda a algo ???

Ok es ist hier mehr klar ! Also Christian und Rodrigo, es gibt nämlich motivierte Chilesischer in Grenoble, und ich habe ihnen gesehen auf die Strasse der Abend wann Chile hat eine Sieg gehabt gegen der Schweiz ! Wahrscheinlich ist es normal, dass wir keine französische Flagge gesehen haben...
Ok es aqui claro ! Tambien Christian y Rodrigo, hay Chilenos motivados en Grenoble, y he veida en el camino en el noche cuando Chile ha una victoria tenido contra los Suizos ! Aparetemente es normal que no he veida una bandera de Francia...

Diese Flagge liegt auf "La Bastille", die ein Schloss ist, der über Grenoble liegt. Von dem Gipfel der Bastille sieht man sehr gut Grenoble, und die Bergen... Haaa, die Bergen von Grenoble... Lucia, es gibt noch Schnee !
Esa bandera es en "La Bastille", que es un fortaleza que es por encima de Grenoble. Cuando tu eres en el tope tu ves bien Grenoble y las montañas... Haaa, las montañas de Grenoble... Lucia hay mas nieve !

Es liegt daran, dass letzte Woche gab es hier ein schlechtes Wetter und wenn es in Grenoble regnet, dann schneet es in die Bergen... Normalerweise, wenn das Wetter schön ist sieht man das "Mont Blanc" von dem Gipfel, aber nicht heute... Aber heute habe ich für ihnen - ja ich weiss ihr seid sehr interessiert ;-) - ein Bilder von mein Arbeitplatz genommen :
Porque ? Porque la ultima semana hay mal tiempo , y cando hay lluvia en Grenoble, hay nieve en las montañas... Normalmente cuando el tiempo es buen, tu ves el "Mont Blanc", pero no hoy... Tambien he por vosotros una Foto de mi lugar de trabajo (vosotros seis interesado !!!) :

Am Hintergrung kann man ein Teilchenbeschleuniger (???) sehen. Dies Viertel heisst Minatec und Betriebe und Universitäten machen Nanotechnologien...
En el fondo hay un acelerador de partículas. Eso barrio se llama Minatec y las empresas y universidades que la nanotecnología...

Man kann auch die grösste Allee Frankreichs sehen, grösser als die Champs Elysées in Paris... 8 km gegen 2 für Paris (Briaaaaaann !!!). Also ich muss sagen dass jemand -in Paris wahrscheinlich- hat gesagt, dass die grösste Allee Frankreichs sollte die Champs Elysées sein, deshalb hat man dies Allee in vier Viertel geteilt...
Tu puedes tambien ver el mas grande camino de Francia, mas grande que los Champs Elysées en Paris... 8 km como 2 por Paris (Biraaaaaaan !!!). Tambien puedo decir que una persona - de Paris aparatemente- ha dijo que los Champs Elysées son los mas grandes, y tambien eso camino es cortado en 4.

Ein Symbol von Grenoble ist auch "Les Bulles" (die Blasen ?), die gehen von ein Park bis die Bastille, für die Leute, die kein Schwindel haben...
Un símbolo de Grenoble es "Les Bulles" (las Burbujas), que llevan de un parque para la Bastille, para los, que no tengan vértigo...

Es hat nicht zu tun, aber ich finde diese Berge (le Saint Eynard) schön...
No tiene nada que ver, pero esa montaña (el Saint Eynard) es muy precioso, pero no tant...

hey vielleicht weisst ihr, dass ich gern klettere ! Also das sind zwei Orten von Grenoble (links "Le Mâs d'Oris" und Recht "Les lames"), wo ich schon mehrmals war und die sind super-toll-widärlich.
Hoy ! Tal vez que tu sabes que me gusta escaladora ! Aquí son dos de lugar de Grenoble (izquierda "Le Mâs d'Oris" y derecha "Les lames"). He ya escaladido aquí y es super-toll-mierda !


Ok für dieses Mädchen spreche ich nicht, weil -bis jetzt- hat sie mich nicht angerufen (das ist komisch...).
Ok, para esa chica no sé, porque -hasta ahora- no ha a migo telephono (no comprendo...)

Bis dann !
Hasta la vista !

PS : Das Lied heisst "Une belle histoire" und wird gesungen bei Michel Fugain, der ein bekannter Singer in Frankreich ist, und der aus Grenoble kommt.
La canción se llama "Une belle histoire" y el cantante es Michel Fugain, que es un cantante conocido en Francia, y que es de Grenoble.

Los Nach Cambrils

La ultima fin de semaña ! Und wir könnten fast diese Satz direkt auf französisch übersetzten, weil es bei uns bedeutet, dass alles super top fantastisch war ! Bo duch Erasmus był z nami!

Well I have to switch here in English because I would like other people than the main characters of this adventure to be able to read it (the poor, they don't speak German...).

An adventure indeed ! Staring Erasmus people of Karlsruhe, the new story of the band of friends that have decided to make their Erasmus revival, Gruppe 7 productions present : Los nach Cambrils

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Some blond-haired boy, in Germany, green t-shirt, strange french accent, searching for his wife, knew he would be missed a lot, but they gave them the orders anyway and let them go...

They thought they will have only a nice week-end, but some of them started the very long trail to Spain on Wednesday evening, taking a coach for 12 hours, and arriving late... Never mind, She was there, like everything was all-right. Their contact in this whole new world... Some other people of the Band were waiting their time, and when it came, they took the command of a plane and made it land in Reus, an airport north-west from their target. Here again was the Contact, and together, arriving in the meeting basement, they woke up the others for the beginning of the first training day.

A view of the basement.

We can say that it was hard. Our heroes, being continuously assaulted by the elements (the water so cold, the light so tiny and the sand so burning), made some terrific efforts to keep training by any conditions, even at night...

Having a good-earned pause in their work, they decided to infiltrate their target to know it ever better, discovering that those people in Cambrils cover their activities by telling everyone that this place was (and 'is still now') settled by fishermen. But this cover is so deep, that our team even had typical meal, fresh and non-cooked seafood, eventually coming from there

After what some of the very deep infiltrated members of the team tried to convince our heroes that the water-training was the best.

In the middle of the second day, the EG7-Team was joined by the partner of one their members, leading them to a place full of a strange liquid looking like water but not in the sea. After a very quick lunch where some native fellow tried to check some intels on our heroes, they decided to make a very dangerous exercise, that ask to sub-teams to strike a ball and run aroud what was called "una piscina" for one, and to catch the ball and sent it back to some kind of throne for the other.

After that all and before leaving this place, they had to accomplish a ritual representing their faithfulness to their team, before the Mission.

Before then end of the day, exhausted, our friends had again some very-well earned rest, in their basement, enjoying simple games that friends play together, like this one where the group kill two of their own people a day !

But resting was good, thinking about the outstanding difficulty of the Mission...

Some of them did go back this night, some of them stayed to make it happen again the day after, lost in this very big town North-East from their initial position, with a lot of building that they had never seen before in an other way than microfilms...

And the sun set in the West, giving them the signal to start, ready they were for the Mission, only waiting the next time their Team will gather again, in an other country, for an other purpose, with the same spirit.

Stop there and try to be a little serious : this week end for me was marvelous, and I can't thank you again for the Stimmung, und ein bischen mehr Cristina que ha bienvenidado nosotros en se casa !

Meine lieblingste Bild ist diese ;-)

Los Nach Hamburg

Hi everybody,

Once again I will try to present you the trip (maybe the last for this awesome semester in Le Nord ?) I had last week end.

But why is he writting in English ? Well, I am not sure, but since we have 'created' a blog which should tell the stories of the gugusses abroad, maybe it would be nice to make the stories themselves a little bit "international". Moreover, I am sure it will help us all to work our English, because as engineer, we have to do speak it well.

Anyway, I left KA January, the 14th at night and under some snow, and when I came back (January the 18th), the city was quite dry. Here is what happened meanwhile :

One of our friend here in KA is in internship (at L'Oréal), but she spent the last year at Hamburg, as Erasmus. She has kept saying that this city is marvellous, and that she would be glad to drive us in there. So we took the train to Heidelberg on Thursday evening and the the bus all the night to go far North (well, farther than KA, but not than Stockholm or Trondheim...).

The very beginning of our trip at the MacDonald of Heidelberg train station... We have thought that we had missed the bus, but don't worry we caught him (half an hour late)... I remember someone saying 'I wouldn't rest before I reach Hamburg' !

On this photo you can see Lucia (on the right), one of the spanish girls of our group 7, Lucie, our french charming leader for this trip, Brian, a parisian and me.

While travelling we have been disturbed by a -nice- policeman at 4 in the morning, who asked us "Ausweis Bitte", which mean "ID-Card please", and it's pretty much the only thing he said. But he was cool and tried not to disturb us too much. For the trip it can also be said that we saw a strange man (at the back of the bus), who was trying his binoculars during the night (so we assumed he was crazy or he had spy-very-cool-night-vision binoculars).

Anyway we got to Hamburg on friday morning, came to our hostel and left our luggages before having a very nice breakfast in a bar which belong to an afghan family.
Then, we visited the place, because we slept during this week end in the "alternative" place of Hamburg. For instance, this theatre has been closed due to "the inflation, the inflation and the crisis..." but it became then an open place to people who want to sleep and who have no money...

After what we got to a park, from where you can see a nice hostel (alone in the middle of a great Park which is quite funny even in winter (there might be only one hill in Hamburg, because there was a lot of children playing sledge here). From this park, we have also seen the "Fernsehturm" similar to the one you might or might not have seen in my previous trip in Berlin.

The Hostel viewed from the town

The Fernsehturm or 'TV tower'

Damned it was cold. In fact, it was 'only' -5°C, so, nothing enough to bother a guguss, but there was this wind, and as you can see, Hamburg is on the sea (be sure you'll know about the harbor later !) and maybe it is why th wind is so cold.

So, what do we do when we are cold ? We find a greenhouse of course ! In this, among the large amount of trees I will not speak about here, we found some nice turtles !

So, as you know, Lucia comes from Spain, and here is a photo of her in her 'natural' environment.

Brian come from Paris, so he is a little bit like John, he is often surprised by the different species he doesn't know. For this time, he was pleased by this thing :

I would like to underline here that I am pleased that my father read this blog regularly.

After that, we went from one typical tourist place in Hamburg : the Rathaus or 'city hall'. It is quite important because it the place where sit the parlament of Hamburg (which is also a Land i.e. 'like a state in USA'), which is the second city of Germany.

I have to say that it is nice inside, but the square in the front of the building should definitively be seen without snow. Because, yes, faithfull gugusses, I faced the snow, the wind, and the sea to give you this narration !

The rathaus

One of the statues you can see on the front of the Rathaus, whith a ship which remind you it is a harbor city.

From inside I will speak later, because we have gone there two times. We were indeed waiting for Cristina who has rejoigned us at friday evening. But at the first time we also went outside to see this nice statue (very more complicated than what you can see there).

Before going home and make us ready for the crazy night we had, we took a walk near the lake that is not so far from the Rathaus, and which is the very best view one can have on this magnificient city.

By the way, we walked a lot this day !

Here is this view, one of the most known from Hamburg, and it was said (I trust) it can be more beautiful.

An other view of this lake, as you can see, dear father and mother, I'm still well ;-)

After that (or before, I don't remember well), we took a break in a Starbuck's Coffee which was warm, quiet, smooth...

As previously stated, the photos I can show you for this day stop there. We had a lunch with friends of Lucie, we met Cristina in the choosen S-Bahn station and we had party all night long, in a place called reeperbahn, a street crowled with prostitute, sexy girls, clubs, discos and -at night- policemen.

Allright I don't want you to be disapointed, so here are two photos...

As you can see, we are all eating Hamburger, because, indeed, hamburger have been invented in Hamburg !

I would also like to express my gratitude to Lucie's and Lucia's friends who have been very nice to us during this week end.

After what a night we came back to the hostel (room 57) and rest for several hours (not enough ?) before coming back at life, have a breakfast and got to the bridge of a ship which make a round around the harbor.

On our way was a bunker

On the way, we saw a lot of marine shops that just reminded me the BD 'Le secret de la Licorne' and 'Le Trésor de Rackham le Rouge'.

I would like to mention here that the aqualung have been invented by Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910-1997). Those who think it has nothing to do we my story are right, but should read 'Le secret de la Licorne' and 'Le Trésor de Rackham le Rouge'.

On the harbor we saw an nice anchor I can't resist to show you because... Well, it's huge !

And there it goes, we went on the bridg this ship which drived us around Hamburg's harbor. At the beginning, all was well, not so chilly, because we had the wind on our back and were also protected by the driving cabine where stayed the cool captain.

Maybe you can't see it very well, but he was making a sign at me.

But at one moment we faced the wind, and became a little bit like this poor cub.

By the way, a cub is not really a baby-dog, if you want to go further with this I recommend to you the lecture of Jack London's famous books :

Anyway, it was really cold on the bridge this ship, but a -maybe not so smart- sense of pride commanded me and Cristina to stay outside all the time (well, quite all the time because we went inside once during one break of the captain).

We saw a lot of the harbor, some buildings not so ugly for 'modern architecture' (or maybe not so modern ?) but please enjoy this photos :

At the end of the trip, the captain gratified us be a speed increase, increasing the relativ speed wind and the coldness too...

By the way I learned a spanish marine song on this ship. As you know, I study also spanish at KA, and I'm sure (or not ?) that this song will help me.
If you are a spanish and read that, please feel free to correct my mistakes !

Soy Capitan I'm the captain
De un barco Engles Of an english ship
En cada puerto In all the harbors
Tengo una mujer. I've got a girl.

After that we rested in a bar for one hour, before going back to the Rathaus, this time whith Cristina, in order (among other things) to make this photo :

Then, we went in a nice little "American Style" dinner, where we had cheap hamburgers and french fries. Anyway the ambiance was great. Then we went one more time in Reeperbahn to make this photo :

What is it ?
It's them

After some researches, I can affirm that on our photo, Cristina is Ringo Starr, Brian is Paul McCartney , Lucia is George Harrison and so I should be John Lennon.

Why can we find such a place in Hamburg ?
Because at the beginning of the 60's, the Beatles were not famous and played at Hamburg for a very fiew money. Anyway, they catched their first recording contract there.

After that, we had a quite night after having a drink in a bar where work Paula, one of the girls who led us through this journey ; and a terrific day :

First of all, on sunday, we had a brunch. It was expensive, particularly because we were in the wealthy part of the town, and because we ate with this fantastic view I spoke about some lines ago. But anyway it was an open belly, so we only ate here for -almost- the whole day.

Then we went to the memorial church, most of whose part have been destroyed during the war.

On the way there was this funny 'thing', like a statue that moove.

There was also this ugly modern 'art' thing

The first thing to show of the memorial chucrch might not be the "thank you" message to 02 (pronounce o-two in german) and MacDonalds but it was quite funny to see that MacDonalds paid for the restauration of this church. Anyway, during the war, american people have no bombed the city, they were at the harbor, while the english were bombing the center...

After that we went to "HafenCity" i.e. "HarborCity", where we saw a lot of boats and a lot of nice buildings. It was really great :

There was also a lot of ships, and (thank you Brian), the Lord of the Ships (this joke works also in french !)

After that (or before, I don't remember), we went through a tunnel that go under the harbor to reach an island, and enjoyed a view of the harbor and of the town from an other point.

After that, we regained a bar where we played cards waiting for the time to our bus to leave. On the way we found Bob :

But when the night hade came, there was a surprise for Jack ! If you are not Jack, you will probably not enjoy this part, but if you are Jack, then you should see this : the dream of Jack have already been realized in Hamburg :

A Climbing wall on a building !!!
Damned, they are so lucky ! Of course I triend to get up, but without the key, you cannot use the ladder and so, you can't climb. Anyway, Jack didn't have the material...

Just because it is written 57, reprent !

Here finishes the story of the trip to Hamburg, if you wonder what else you can see there, I have two ideas :

A girly blue leather Jacket, so cool.

A huge statue of Germany Hero Otto Von Bismarck, who gathered all the peoples of Germany into one German Empire.

He was in charge of German Politic during the war of 1870 after which the Alsace and the Moselle became territories of Germany. But it has been stated that he was personnaly opposed to this annexation.

Anyway, this trip in Hamburg was really, really a great thing to do, and I recommend to you to go there once if you can.

After this long week end, I had a agitated night in the bus, and a good nap in my house, where I discovered that the washer was out of function... Anyway, I now have to get prepared to the exams that come in February, but, from now, I'm up !