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Sunday, September 30, 2012

RULES OF TRAVEL

Posted on 4:11 AM by Unknown
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Use the international gym locator, Gymvisit.com (see side panel), to quickly find and narrow down (or to update or recommend) resources in your area.
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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Remember Throw Mama From The Train?

Posted on 11:00 AM by Unknown
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Hear the one about the New Jersey teenager who stuck his head out of a speeding bus?
(click for the punchline)
I often travel on the bus and sometimes it can get pretty tiresome. Not the long distances - I plan for that with comfortable clothing, snacks, reading material and maybe even a movie download -  so much as the oblivious obnoxious passenger(s). But no matter how irksome it can get - like the time this old bag behind me kept passing wind -  or, Heaven forbid, downright grisly horrific I am not stupid enough to poke my head out of a high speed moving bus.

Though I wish some of the other passengers would.


Sure, it would delay my journey a tad...but I mustn't be selfish. Think of the immediate long-term benefit to humanity!  A bad case of Stupid is best cured by death
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Posted on 1:25 AM by Unknown

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There are no foreign lands. 
It is the traveler only who is foreign.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

I love to wrestle

Posted on 1:21 AM by Unknown
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I love to wrestle. Every time I'm in Berlin I head to the wrestling club in Kreuzberg. It's an informal, non-competitive group of German guys who are very new to actual sport technique. I've never been able to locate any other groups (for example, Turkish wrestlers) although I know they're a few around town. But on Sunday I found - finally! - the Bundesliga Ringen via photos posted on the Wrestling World web log (see side panel) 

SV Luftfahrt is the club which represents Berlin in competitions. They are competitive, skilled on the mat, and its athletes have been at the sport for years. That's where I need to start going! 

It just so happened a competition was taking place on Sunday when I found them online; so I hopped on the metro and went straight away!
It was great to see and hear those familiar wrestling tournament sounds. I caught the tail end of it (apparently it started earlier than the poster announces) but didn't pay full price to get it so I was cool about it. And, anyway, I got a schedule of future tourneys and contact info for SV Luftfahrt so, as we say in urbania, it's all good in the hood.

Wow, a job and apartment plus a new gym membership, and now I find a real competitive wrestling club (to hopefully train with). This has been a great last couple of weeks!





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Friday, September 21, 2012

Apollo Sports Club (Berlin)

Posted on 5:51 AM by Unknown
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After months and months I'm back in the gym! Partly due to (lack of)money and partly due to my rare immobility I was not in a position to pony up for any gym fees.

No More. Now I have a short-term membership in this rather posh gym in Schoeneberg  heroically named Apollo Sports Club. I found it via the International Gym locator (see side panel). It's not at all the sort of place I would seek out. I prefer bare bones, sweaty hardcore weightrooms that are cheap, full of free weights and men who wear uncoordinated sweats versus matching designer stuff -- and cologne. Ugh! Well...the sports club is on the fancy side and very, very un-hardcore BUT, surprisingly, it is also one of the few gyms in my price range and walking distance from my apartment. Plus I dig saunas (there is not one, but four!), low decimal music and free dance classes so joining Apollo Sports Club was a no-brainer.
Unisex sauna will take getting used to.
Some things are just too German for my tastes.
(If only everyone who disrobed were as young and beautiful...)

And something I've never seen in any gym are walls decorated with paintings! Physique paintings and photography adorn the three-story facility from top to bottom. Now that's class. Between the free-weights, sauna(s) and Zumba class I've a new home away from home.
Time to pump!!   

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Monday, September 17, 2012

RULES OF TRAVEL

Posted on 5:01 AM by Unknown
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NEW RULE:

Before checking into any hostel be sure to inquire about the Internet access.

  • Are there terminals and/or wi-fi?
  • Is the Internet access free of charge?
  • Is it on a timer system? (y'know, where the connection taps out after, say, an hour and you have to resign in or get a new code...it's very annoying)
  • How much is it to print?
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Thursday, September 13, 2012

Worthless college education

Posted on 3:39 AM by Unknown
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I went to college and all I got was this fancy sheepskin diploma!
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