It looks like the Germans are getting tired of having to hold the EU up by themselves. Leaked memos from the German foreign ministry expose a secret German plan to kill of the British pound and force the British to convert their currency to the Euro. Needless to say, the British find this ‘German bullying [...]
An Iranian official has said that Iran jets fuel refused by UK, Germany and the United Arab Emirates. The accusation was made on Monday, June 5, 2010. Mehdi Aliyari, secretary of the Iranian Airlines Union was quoted by ISNA news agency as saying that the countries have been refusing to fuel Iranian passenger jets for [...]
Pigs find WWII weapon – An anti-tank weapon was found near Dresden, Germany last week by a couple of pigs. The ‘panzerfaust’ was found on private property southwest of Dresden, apparently having been buried there before the end of World War II. The war ended more than 65-years-ago, but it is still not uncommon to [...]
Beneath the northern French town of Arras is a labyrinth of tunnels and caves that were used to help the allies defeat the Germans in The Great War. Those elaborate subterranean passageways hide an army of 25,000 British Soldiers right beneath the unsuspecting German army. From their hiding place beneath the front lines of that [...]
I’ve managed to get my hands on a few more pictures from my son’s wedding last December. The pictures I posted before are here. The photographer is my daughter-in-law’s sister’s boyfriend (there has to be an easier way of saying that!). His website is CB_PIC_ART. I think he did a fantastic job with the photos. [...]
You might have heard of ‘Hitler’s Lost Fleet’. It was part of a flotilla that had wrecked havoc and destruction on England and Russia during World War II. Well, after all these years, they’ve been found. The submarines had been carried 2,000 miles overland from Germany to attack Russian shipping during the Second World War, [...]
I finally got some pictures of THE WEDDING. That would be my son’s wedding we went to in December in Germany. German weddings are interesting in that they go on all day and all night. They start in the morning when the bride and groom have to go to the local court house and get [...]
Thirteen Observations from Our Trip to Germany I realize that all my Thursday Thirteens lately have been about Germany. What can I say – it was a big trip for us. I’ll try to make this my last one. How about observations from our trip. Germany is very cold. Germans walk around outside and do [...]