Missing The Olde Country

hier nicht here, lol

lol das stimmt und wenn du keinen deutschen club findest,dann gründen wir hier halt einen

Gothicana, entschuldigung! I am sorry it took me so long to reply. Thanks for your offer to help me re-learn Deutsch. I am very rusty and have forgotten much of the language. I have been away for 16 years now.

Vielen Dank!

I am sorry for the long delay in responding but I have been in the middle of a big move. Germany is most beautiful during the holidays with its white lights all aglow against rolling white backdrops of glistening snow. The parties and festivals liven up each village like a carnival. It is a time when neighbors greet and meet one another with warm regards. I do so miss it! I am planning on returning, even if only once, to revisit the land of dreams and fairy-tales; Germany is truly hauntingly charming. Hope you return someday too.

It is just something you cannot forget! My mother moved to Germany in her mid-sixties and fell in love with the country. She was there for about ten months, having to return home due to my older sister's illness, but she never lost the desire and wish to return. Brochen was her favorite food, we lived across the strasser von dir backeri and she visited it everyday like a true native. She and my landland's mother(Oma)loved to talk shop about gardening. Yes, I will always remember fondly the wonder sounds and smells of Germany; but boy is my German rusty! LOL

It is wonderful to be a "kinder" growing up in Europe! My children loved it there; my youngest was born in Bremerhaven. I was stationed in Germany when the wall came down and it feels a bit more like the U.S. now with the youth embrassing more untraditional values; but Germany will always remain a beautiful country like no other. Both sides coming together just made the country more interesting and favorful; there are always new and exciting stories to be told or heard. I personally think the unification added to the charm of the country, and found it better because of it. You should book a tour, you would be pleasantly surprised at its new world charm and olde world spendlor.

Germany is a magical place that is full of wonder trimmed in absolute splendor! The Linderoff Castle is one of my favorite sites but your Lucknow sounds interesting too. I have always wanted to visit India and it is on my list of places to see in the near future. I will keep Lucknow in mind and think of you when I'm there.

You are so right, Germany is extremely beautiful, Alps included. I see changes in her each time I visit and am amazed at her ability to maintain its olde world charm. New technology has made the world a smaller place and more alike than different, so I marvel at those who are able to hold tight to traditions which take us back to a time when life was far simpler. I too always return to my "NOW life" I enjoy; but, for just a few brief moments, I find that life wherever I happen to be. I do not fool myself into thinking I can savor the pleasure of time gone by forever, but I do enjoy it while I'm there. Holding the memories to revisit again and again enable me to escape back to a time when merely looking upon a dramatic landscape took my breath away in total splendor! It is worth going back if only for a day or two to collect as many memories as possible so I can revisit over and over again the experiences of unadulterated beauty life has blessed me with.

Germany is part of the sum total of the places I've experienced in my lifetime and having been there will always remain important to me. I am happy to know that it hold fond memories for others as well. Thanks for giving me a taste of what your experience was like, it was truly interesting.

Always nice to remember, isnt it! I am grateful to be able also to actually go back when the time is right.. that need to be back there.. you know exactly what I mean. May you continue to have the chance to do so. Have a good holiday time and good new year also, my friend!

Use it or loose it, sorry to say. I have lived in this city for seven years and have met four people from German and they are all members of the same family. They all speak english as their first language and rarely even speak german between themselves. My life is slowing down a bit with my last child graduating from high school this school year, so I plan to do a bit of self-study and revisit places like france, germany, and korea to re-sharpen my linguistic skills.

It is hard to imagine that I once lived among the nationals in germany and korea, speaking the language on a daily basis and now I can bearly recall ten words. My french is used few and far in between but I have nearly total recall under stress, it's so weird. I can scarely believe that I once spoke french, korean and german well enough to live or get along on my own in each country; it seems like a lifetime ago. When I pick them up again, I hope to speak them all to my grave.

Small world, the army took me there too. My late husband was 2nd generation german-american but never actually visited Germany. My youngest daughter was born there. The food is terrific and the scenery is even better. I do not speak deutsch much anymore but I have fond memories to cling to.

I am originally from Florida and have considered moving back since I'm from a military town and can be serviced as a retiree; maybe one day your family and mine shall meet and we can attempt converse.

I shall look forward to your upcoming discussion.