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In Winter this is a practice area for the Luge? A relatively new sport to Broadland.

I assume that this EU support will cease at the end of this month?

Me flying our club's 20m wingspan glider a few years ago... The guy in the backseat (whose son was learning with us) is an airline captain with whom I had a cockpit ride in a CRJ from Hamburg to Manchester many years previously. Before take-off I dumped my camcorder in his hands & said "film"... Please forgive my attempts to speak German...

My wife reports that the first pair of Canada geese have arrived at the nearby fish ponds after the "Winter" break. We normally get between 8 & 12 geese in Spring - their dawn patrol which goes past our house is quite loud. Many of these continue further northwards but one or two pairs remain to nest. Last year one pair raised 4 or 5 young despite there being a fox faimily in the neighbourhood.

I thought the story was suppsed to have involved a girl from Liverpool...

All those sausages & rashers of bacon...

Over here you qualify for this T-Shirt when you retire: Translation: I'm a pensioner. - Have no spare time - - Completely Stressed out - -------------------------------------------- Available for appointments in 4 week's time. Who said the Germans have no sense of humour? Somehow its true: since I ceased gainful employment my wife claims I spend more time at my desk / computer.

Did he also used to own own or two rental cottages (holiday homes) there as well? If so my family (parents, brother & self) stayed there a couple of Septembers in the mid-1970s - we also hired a half-decker from Martham Boats which we would moor in the dyke in front of the Granary Stores (used to have fun in the evenings with a radio-controlled duck whilst we held the transmitter under the awning. Had the guy moored in a small cruiser opposite us in stitches...).

I recall some pre-war (WW II) tale - I think it was about the butchers in Ludham - from our neighbours when I used to live in Bramhall (Stockport...) back in the 60s & 70s. Our next-door neighbour old Mrs. Kent (her father had at one time been Lord Mayor of Manchester) told the story that in the 1930s the enlarged family would spend their Summer holidays on the Norfolk Broads - she produced photographs of 3 wherries that they all hired. Apparently whilst in Ludham (I suspect Womack Water) they needed to buy food & so a deputation went to the butchers. On entering there was only the wife present who said that she would have to get her husband from the pub in order to serve them. However Mrs. K's father announced that he was a butcher by trade (subsequently Kents Meat Pies) & that he would cut the meat & the wife would weigh up & take the money. And so the masses were fed that day,.

This works for me as well

I have the same issue as the OP (Firefox browser).

We had just moved into our house West of Hamburg (from a small flat) days before the wall(s) fell (not just in Berlin). As fortune would have it my new glider/sailplane was ready for collection from the manufacturers near Karlsruhe on the 9th November 1989. I drove down the A7 / A5 Autobahn in my 72 hp Golf II accompanied by a club colleague as my wife had to stay at home with our 6-mth old son. We arrived at the manufacturers early afternoon & did the acceptance work, arranging to pick up the trailer the next morning outside the factory. We could not understand what was going on on the radio (this was before the days of mobile phones). Apparently my wife was sat in tears in front of the TV. The next day we hitched up the trailer & drove back North (poor Golf struggling up the hills) getting passed by trabbis. My club colleagues could only say "whats going on?" We got home to find a trabbi parked in our neighbour's drive. Some years later during one of my parent's visits I flew my father in our club's motorglider through the Hamburg CTR and further East to Neustadt-Glewe. At that time you could clearly see where the dividing line between East & West Germany had still been.

Whilst that is true there are areas in Germany where a significant amount of sailing takes place. There is a very large lake (The Alster) in the middle of Hamburg where people sail in the Summer months - a tricky task with the winds being funneled by the adjacent tall buildings (I have never been tempted to sail on the water here; only through the air). Not the same atmosphere as Broadland though. Also the river Elbe is full of sailing boats in the Summer months. Southern Germany (Bavaria) has lots of lakes - but my very limited experience from long ago is that its either flat calm or brewing up for a storm.

As a replacement you have screaming Lord BoJo.....

And a similar throught from a frosty Northern Germany, where my UK pension will continue to be paid, my UK income tax is below the threshold, the food is pretty good, the wine is good but costs much more than €3 a litre and the bins get emptied every two weeks. But to expand: My UK state pension will be frozen in 3 year's time according to recent letter from UK pension folks; luckily I also have a German state pension (having worked here 31 years - in UK for 11). Unfortunately I have to pay tax in Germany & despite there being a double-taxation agreement between the UK & DE (which is totally independent of EU membership) the Germans have a back door to also tax my UK pension in part. Still... The Germans (who like to organise things like Citroen build cars = why do things simple when complicated works almost as well) collect the "Bio waste" every two weeks & the "remaining waste" in the weeks in between...

It could be that at least some are going for such a holiday before the Sterling crashes even further and takes such vacations out of their financial range.

You probably don't want to hear this but this was my day: My plan was to travel from our local station to Braunschweig (Brunswick in English) via Hamburg & Hannover main stations. My local train into Hamburg main station opened its doors as my Intercity Express (ICE) to Hannover closed its. Connection missed. Rebooked onto next ICE to Hannover (that stopped 4 times on the way) & slow train to Braunschweig. Arrived an hour later than planned which only gave me 1.5 hours for a meeting at the German Aero Club instead of 2.5. Train back from Braunschweig to Hannover was on time but my ICE up to Hamburg was 40 minutes delayed "due to technical problems with another train". This meant a later train was earlier - took that , managed a 3 minute connection for local train in Hamburg-Altona & got home. Good job I speak some of the language... So all that way for 1.5 hours instead of 2.5 & one of the guys who was supposed to be present was missing (3 others were). Why a British Citizen is Claims Officer for the German Aero club is a long story...

Read that book many times from cover to cover (along with the whole set of ARs).

At the age of 9 or 10 in the 2nd-to-final year at junior school (this was in the 1960s) I chanced upon a well-worn hardback in the classroom library: Coot Club. I read this from cover-to-cover. This sparked an interest in sailing & the Norfolk Broads. Over the years I aquired the whole set (mostly as hardbacks) and still have them in the loft of our house now in Germany. Sadly these books don't fit into modern life - consider Pigeon Post: any kid nowadays would ask why they didn't use a cell phone.

We didn't have a television at home back in those days, however 50 years ago we were on a sort of work/vacation in Switzerland, staying in the Kilchberg (south side of Lake Zurich) appartment of a scottish colleague of my father whilst they were visiting family in Scotland. Thus we watched the landing on their B&W TV, trying to understand the swiss commentator in his efforts to speak high German. Once they had landed the plan was for the crew to rest before the walk so we all went to bed - waking to find they had cancelled the planned rest & had gone walkies whilst we slept. Back home I think we got our first TV in time for the final(?) landing on the moon.

Its a true statement! I retired at the end of January 2018 after 43 years working in IT (first as part of the High-Energy Physics research group at Manchester university, then witha German software house & the final 19 years & 9 months for a global IT manufacturer. Now my wife complains that I spend even more time sat at my desk working with the PC (that what one gets from being involved with a sport at local, national & international level on a voluntary basis - same amount of work - just no pay). It wasn't exactly planned that way. I have a whole list of things I wanted to do around the house before I get too decrepit to do things. Am not making much progress.

A bit O.T. but the converse is even more true (says he having retired early last year - one month before my global IT employer would have put me out to grass).

Saturday: Drove to local airfield giving 2 14yr-olds a lift (they recently joined the club). Specialist sailplace weather forecast predicted quite good soaring weather over Northern Germany but you can never be certain if they smoked the right stuff. Got trailer out of garage & assembled sailplane. Checked everything, selected same task (511km) as on previous Monday & took off at 11am. Departing to the North taking care not to infringe on Hamburg airport airspace, up North to the first turnpoint then course Southeast to an Autobahn exit in former East Germany. Having navigated around Lübeck airspace we ran out of clouds - had to "park" until the sky developed - then off to the 2nd turn point & then Southwest across the river Elbe and to the 3rd TP on the Autobahn just North of Hannover. At this point it was getting a bit murky & the easterly wind was freshning. Now just the remaining 100kms or so in Northerly direction home which was quite a struggle due to not all clouds "working". Finally the navigation system said I was on "final glide" home but it tends to be a bit optimistic & the margin melted away. Finally managed to add about 100m altitude over Stade airfield which gave sufficient margin to glide across the river Elbe and home. Had some difficulty getting out of the cockpit after 7 1/4 hours in there! Flight took 3/4 hour longer than same task did the previous Monday. Our CFI (flies same plane type as I do) just managed 600kms but hes younger...

Although I don't live that far from Berlin (we live on the Northwest outskirts of Hamburg) I have only been to Berlin a couple of times. A few times before the wall fell; the last time was to the Deutscher Segelfliegertag at the end of October 2016 where I was lucky to find my way there & back through the rail & underground systems. Can't say Berlin is my favourite city - can get rather hot & sticky (& thundery) in the Summer.