A Surprise Return

Right now I'm supposed to be sitting in Barcelona, but I'm in my cozy room in Regensburg instead. We rolled into the Frankfort airport on time only to get told by a rather amused employee that Ryanair flew out of the other Frankfort airport. Frankfort Han is 100km away, and only reachable by car or bus. The next bus left 45 minutes before our plane, and got there a half hour after we were supposed to be in the air.
So I spent the next hour asleep on our luggage while Tiff worked her travel-agent magic and called everyone to complain. We're getting the taxes back on our tickets, which is good because they were bought in a "tax-only" sale. We lost a whopping nickel each in this little venture.
And a trip to Barcelona.
But her ankle's hurt (more about that in previous posts), she's been feverish, and we're both tired. A few days to lay around Regensburg may be just what we need.
It was great to get back here and talk to all my flatmates/friends again. We had dinner with Karen and chatted all about our trip. Back in my flat Virginia, a friend of sophie's whose name is pronounced "Vir-gin-eee", was quite interested in my thoughts on Paris. Luckily, I enjoyed it. I praised the Louvre for a few minutes, and chattered about the city as a whole. Franz looked quite amused at the conversation, and they both got a good laugh out of my pronounciation. I curled up with Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code. I want to note there that I'm not some fanatic retracing all his hints and tips to discover the "truth" of Opus Dei or any other secret societies. I'm not even really fond of the writing, to be honest. He spins a good adventure, but relies too heavily on the "cut-scene" ending for chapters, switching back and forth to build tension. The whole book is very tense, which is both its strength and weakness. It moves too fast for the reader to reflect.
But that's just initial impressions. He is an adventure writer, after all. This isn't his character's thesis, it's a detective story. So I guess I'll just ride along and think about the holes in the "code" later.
I'll try and hold off more of my opinions on it for now.
There's a bunch of backlogged posts that I'm updating now. After the 7th I probably won't get another chance to upload things until the 14th or 15th, then not again until around the 21st or maybe even after christmas. Being on the road means no internet, and while I still blog as often as possible, I can't get it to you w/o net. Internet cafe's here typically don't have disk drives or allow private computers, so unless I cough up the 5-10 Euros for an hour on a computer, I have no way to write things there either. Half the time thier lousy machines don't like blogger anyway. So be patient, enjoy major reading whenever I'm around. Pics are going to be all up after Christmas probably, and I'll be making some New Years Resolutions for next year's blog.
It's good to be back online.