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| 53rd week/1st week........... | |
| Sun, 04 Jan 98: | Burgenland - Halbthurn, Frauenkirchen - and Lorenz' family. Dinner at Do&Co. |
| Sat, 03 Jan 98: | Zoological Garden Schönbrunn. Hercules. |
| Fri, 02 Jan 98: | Liebermann exposition. Manfred und Fanny Reininghaus at Hotel Regina. Jause and dinner at Elvira's. María Isidora's 21st birthday. |
| Thu, 01 Jan 98: | Black eyed peas and New Year's Concert. |
| Wed, 31 Dec 97: | Midnight in the Nineteenth "as usual", after Beethoven's Ninth at the Konzerthaus "as usual" - most splendid. |
| Tue, 30 Dec 97: | Antiquarian bookshops like Kuppitsch, then a stop at Café Stein, then Volksoper: Die Bernauerin by Carl Orff.
Followed by a - brief - stop at Volksgarten. |
| Mon, 29 Dec 97: | Dinner with Plo and Gabriella. |
| 52nd week........... | |
| Sun, 28 Dec 97: | Stadtpark. Café Prückel. Long tram and sub rides.
Dinner with Maggie and Gaba. |
| Sat, 27 Dec 97: | Trzesniewski. City walk: Vienna secrets. With children to Zentralfriedhof to visit their grandfather Gottfried and other ancestors like Jakob Reuter, Jake's great-great-grandfather. Zum rostigen Anker in Fischamend. |
| Fri, 26 Dec 97: | Wine tour: Burger in Kalladorf. Stroll on Mariahilferstraße.
Tomorrow Never Dies - rating: *****. |
| Thu, 25 Dec 97: | Sleep long. Café Bräunerhof. Kids. Pizza. Visit Micki and Harald. |
| Wed, 24 Dec 97: | Merry Christmas to you all! (St. Jakob in Heiligenstadt; celebrating with Nonna, later Gerald and Irida) |
| Tue, 23 Dec 97: | Fish extravaganza at Naschmarkt. Walk to Kaasgraben church Maria Dolorosa. More Christkindlmarkt at City Hall. |
| Mon, 22 Dec 97: | Our tree at Naschmarkt. Christkindlmarkt at City Hall. Burgtheater: Nora by H. Ibsen. |
| 51st week........... | |
| Sun, 21 Dec 97: | Sleep long. Invitation of Kandlers at Brandl in Grinzing. Elvira's perfect Kinderjause. My best friend's wedding at Burgkino. |
| Sat, 20 Dec 97: | I love the Altwiener Christkindlmarkt at Freyung. In the Vienna Woods with the kids. Taco's with Peter and Lisl. |
| Fri, 19 Dec 97: | Xmas mail at Café Tuchlauben.
Konzerthaus: Liederabend (Brahms, Mahler, Schubert), and Minoritenkirche: Gregorian Chants. |
| Thu, 18 Dec 97: | Kammeroper: The Little Sweep by Benjamin Britten - Jake's first opera.
Visit of the big Vienna Christkindlmarkt in front of majestic City Hall. Xmas party at PSE/Siemens Austria. |
| Wed, 17 Dec 97: | Burgtheater: The Tower by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. |
| Tue, 16 Dec 97: | Special tour by Isolde's companion of his exposition. |
| Mon, 15 Dec 97: | Wonderful trip through Rhine, Main, Danube and Inn valleys and with their castles and snow lanscapes to Vienna (our address). A first sweep through town: it's wonderful. |
| 50th week........... | |
| Sun, 14 Dec 97: | Bad Godesberg Christmas Market (and some office work).
B.t.w.: now I can say it: Happy birthday, Carsten, and the party and the _food_ was great, Biteena! It snows in Mississippi. |
| Sat, 13 Dec 97: | (Some office work and) AA kindergarten Xmas play: Hänsel und Gretel and (some office work and then) surprise party for I-can't-say-whom-because-then-it-might-not-be-a-surprise. |
| Fri, 12 Dec 97: | FFD ball at the American Club. |
| Wed, 10 Dec 97: | "Neuruppiner Bilderbogen" in the Brandenburg Delegation to the Federal Government. Private little dinner at our precious little place. |
| Tue, 09 Dec 97: | Special visitors from Paraguay: Rüdiger and Christiane. |
| Mon, 08 Dec 97: | We did it: picked up 18 c. candle lights at Bödiger. |
| 49th week........... | |
| Sun, 07 Dec 97: | Martin Meyer died - a salute to an era that has now passed.
Claudia visits Elspeth, and then gets a special tour by J.H. Darchinger through his exhibit "The Bonn Republic" in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum. All men feed chestnuts to the animals in Rolandseck. |
| Sat, 06 Dec 97: | Morning of total SciFi recall.
After the riding show at the stable in Burgbröhl, Santa Claus came with his carriage, and it snowed outside, and Jake and Louis got big chocolate bags - good boys! |
| Fri, 05 Dec 97: | Krampus meets Eggnog:
Krampus (6.3 MB video), der; -/-ses, -se: Begleiter des Sankt Nikolaus am 5. oder 6. Dezember; "Knecht Ruprecht". How to eggnog? |
| Wed, 03 Dec 97: | First snow in Bonn! 4 inches! |
| Tue, 02 Dec 97: | Indian Palace with the experts: Mr. & Mrs. Wehrmann. |
| 48th week........... | ||
| Sat, 29 Nov 97: | Auction at Bödiger.
Tankred Dorst's Was sollen wir tun at Bad Godesberg Kammerspiele.
Peter's Party. |
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| Fri, 28 Nov 97: |
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To the movies: excellent Oscar Wilde - My tastes are simple. I only like the best. |
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| Thu, 27 Nov 97: | Wonderful, amazing first visit of Jake and Louis to the dentist, Dr. Amerling. They were allowed to watch and help and do everything - Jake cleaned Louis' teeth and v.v.
Little Fiat gives big Jag a jump start - no problem! With Daisy, Melissa, and Camilla to visit the horses in Villiprott. |
| 47th week........... | |
| Fri, 21 Nov 97: | Day of the letters: Ysanne, checking nice objects at Bödiger and books and music at Bouvier. |
| Mon, 17 Nov 97: | Ludwig got operated on his adenoids at St. Marien and thanks Daisy and Ralf for their support. |
| 46th week........... | |
| Sun, 16 Nov 97: | L.L. Bean is another of Santa Claus' names - and his assistant is called Günter Wehrmann. |
| Sat, 15 Nov 97: | Amazon books and jacket from Harold's in Jackson arrived from USA - thanks to Harald. |
| Thu, 13 Nov 97: | St. Martin's parade in Friesdorf.
Eight years after a Mask entered the big picture, MAG-LITE meets Iwachu Tetsubin - celebration at Bonn's Schaumburger Hof (remember Schaumburgergasse?), and champagne afterwards at Cafe Blau. |
| Wed, 12 Nov 97: | Harald goes to Washington - work and visits. |
| Tue, 11 Nov 97: | A Moët after midnight. |
| 45th week........... | |
| Sun, 09 Nov 97: | Jake and Louis visit Camilla and Melissa - Sunday with Daisy and Ralf. |
| Sat, 08 Nov 97: | Arno had an accident in the barn: skull fracture, but everything under control. Lies in Uniklinik, phone +49-228-287-1247. |
| Fri, 07 Nov 97: | New claws for the paws of the cat.
Intense Contact with Jodie Foster. |
| 44th week........... | |
| Sun, 02 Nov 97: | Have a look at an old BMW. Visit the Fritzdorfers. |
| Sat, 01 Nov 97: | Brunners receive Bonn friends and colleagues. |
| Thu, 30 Oct 97: | Jewelry exposition at the "Swabian Embassy". |
| Wed, 29 Oct 97: | The travellers come back to be picked up at Frankfurt Airport. |
| 43rd week........... | ||
| Sat, 25 Oct 97: | Fiat gets new shoes. | |
| Fri, 24 Oct 97: | The travellers, deeply envied, lunch at Galatoire's.
Brahms and Shostakovich trios with Bettina. |
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| 42nd week........... | ||
| Sun, 19 Oct 97: | Holger & Louis on the Rhine, CAZ & Jazz on the Mississippi. | |
| Sat, 18 Oct 97: | Marriage of Anna Callon and John Ayers in Natchez (info, more info, yet more info, and yet more Mississippi info ),
while Bonn features a little concert. |
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| Wed, 15 Oct 97: | 
Surprise: Claudia goes to NOLA (w/ Jake!) ...
off they dash to touch base at the Josephine, and then do the grand tour.
Mail connections until 28 Oct 97: Donna (in Baton Rouge), Larry, Stuart, Sandra, Robin |
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| 41st week........... | |
| Sun, 12 Oct 97: | Tango, Tango with Daisy and Ralf in the  |
| Thu, 09 Oct 97: | 
The whole division goes by Rhine Jet to Linz and hikes to Bad Hönningen's Castle Arenfels. |
| 40th week........... | |
| Sat, 04 Oct 97: | Preparations for Mississippi: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) - and more than occupying the same cage. |
| Fri, 03 Oct 97: | Cologne Zoo to meet Katya and Marcus. |
| Wed, 01 Oct 97: | Chestnuts, and more chestnuts. |
| 39th week........... | ||
| Sun, 28 Sep 97: | Jag and Elspeth meet again.
CAZ, hgz, Jazz & Louis have a long walk from Waldau through the Kottenforst back to Friesdorf. |
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| Sat, 27 Sep 97: | Going to see Breughel - Brueghel in Villa Hügel in Essen. |  |
| Fri, 26 Sep 97: | Housewarming at Leo's.
Beethoven's Sixth and Third as well as the first؋F=Frankfurt. |
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| Sat, 28 Jun 97: | Concert at Schloß Augustusburg. | |
| Fri, 27 Jun 97: | Brasserie Georges. Tintin. Pralines. Perroquet. Antiques. | |
| Thu, 26 Jun 97: | hgz: WEU. CAZ: flea market, lunch at la Rotonde, Delvaux retrospective.
Apéritif chez André et dîner: Le Crabe Fantôme. |
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| Wed, 25 Jun 97: | EU meeting at Justus Lipsius. Invitation with Patricia and Etienne to Maggie. | |
| Tue, 24 Jun 97: | Trip to Brussels. Dinner and »les Salons de l'Atalaïde« with Maggie and Philippe. | |
| Mon, 23 Jun 97: | Surprise visit of Martin Langer. | |
| 25th week........... | |
| Sun, 22 Jun 97: | Pulling the kid's cars up the hill to Kottenforst. |
| Sat, 21 Jun 97: | Manfred Mann's Earth Band between Bundeskunsthalle and Kunstmuseum. |
| Fri, 20 Jun 97: | Claudia spoils Holger terribly. |
| Wed, 18 Jun 97: | "Blauer Enzian": The train from Klagenfurt to Bonn with a trip into history - Badgastein. |
| Mon, 16 Jun 97: | One of the Tretboot days (how do you say? pedal boat?). |
| 24th week........... | |
| Sat, 14 Jun 97: | Bird of prey at Landskron castle. |
| Thu, 12 Jun 97: | Bird park.
Holger in Stuttgart. |
| Wed, 11 Jun 97: | Velden. Käthe Musil. |
| 23rd week........... | |
| Sun, 08 Jun 97: | Off we dash: Holger to Bonn (via Häuserl am Stoa, Regensburg, and Bad Abbach), and the boys and girls to St. Kanzian on the Klopeiner See in Carinthia/Kärnten. |
| Sat, 07 Jun 97: | Celebrating "El Primero" by Shostakovich's 8th symphony at the Musikverein. |
| Fri, 06 Jun 97: | Lunch and wine tasting at Mörwald in Feuersbrunn - excursion to the banks of the Danube. |
| Thu, 05 Jun 97: | Splendor at the National Library's Prunksaal (piano and cello duo). |
| Wed, 04 Jun 97: | Schoellerbank day. Lunch with the Bradburns and Werums. Quality time at Türkenschanzpark.
"Der Fall Furtwängler" at Rabenhof. |
| Tue, 03 Jun 97: | Lovely playtime and dinner at Elvira's. |
| Mon, 02 Jun 97: | The chimneysweep experience. Brno/Brünn and Znaimo/Znaim with Gerald and Irina. |
| 22nd week........... | |
| Sun, 01 Jun 97: |  Claudia and Isolde listen to Berg and Schubert by the Vienna Philharmonic at the Musikverein.
Holger, Jake + Ludwig at the tramway museum and at the museum of 20th century art. Concert in protestant church. |
| Fri, 30 May 97: | Oliver and "Heli" Helga, who have come from Hannover and Leipzig resp., stay for two days - full sightseeing program. |
| Thu, 29 May 97: | Join us for our fifth wedding anniversary at the heurigen Brandl in Grinzing! |
| Mon, 26 May 97 | FINALLY: two weeks in Vienna
(after buying a vignette and additional "services" in the CR). |
| 21st week........... | |
| Sun, 25 May 97: | Family visit in Annaberg-Buchholz - a first time for the children to their grandfather's birthplace. |
| Sat, 24 May 97: | 
Annual big Ziegeler family meeting on the Maaßener Geipel near Langelsheim/Harz,
followed by a 'first' visit to Weimar - thank you Birgit, Anna, and Ulf. |
| Fri, 23 May 97: | Off to Hotel Wilhelmsbad in Seesen, to meet Gisela, Ini (who has come from the US of A - hurra!), and Richard, as well as Helga and Thorleif from Annaberg. |
| Wed, 21 May 97: | Concert of the Abegg-Trio, good friends from Weimar, at 20:00 in the Beethovenhaus, Bonn. Private lunch at Gran Italia. Meet us all after the concert at Em Höttche (Markt 4, next to the old city hall). |
| Tue, 20 May 97: | Another first at the apartment: having boss and colleagues for dinner. |
| Mon, 19 May 97: | Open house at the old water mill in Wachtberg-Villip, followed by a walk uphill to the former wind mill, then down to the rennaissance castle Gudenau, and back along the creek (the children partly in the creek). Strawberries.
Peter and the Wolf with Jakob. |
| 20th week........... | |
| Sat, 17 May 97: | Finished Jake's and Ludwig's garden log cabin by covering the roof with a water resistant tarpaulin. |
| Thu, 15 May 97: | Built a sand box in the garden - now main attraction for all neighbourhood children. |
| 19th week........... | |
| Sun, 11 May 97: | Die Königsburg (»Haut-Kœnigsbourg«) à la Wilhelm II. und das Münster von Straßburg. Dazwischen Foie Gras d'Oie. Unglaublich! |
| Sat, 10 May 97: | Musée Unterlinden, Colmar.
Aub de l'Ill (E, D) Le Syndicat: eau de vie artisanal. Stay at the Cheval Blanc in Ribeauvillé. |
| Sat, 08 May 97: | "Father's Day": Whole family goes on an excursion through the Rhine Valley by boat from Rüdesheim to Koblenz. |
| 18th week........... | |
| Sat, 03 May 97: | Should like to see - together with Florence and with Maggie and Philippe from Brussels [last minute change: they couldn't make it] - Parsifal with Maggie's uncle Franz Mazura as Titurel (cast) at the Bonn Opera: 5 ½ hours. Afterwards: Rhein in Flammen ("Rhine in Flames"). |
| Fri, 02 May 97: | Picked up Claudia and Florence with Jake at the Cologne train station, as a surprise for the girls. Cologne Cathedral at nighttime. |
| Wed, 30 Apr 97
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CAZ and Florence at Lucas Carton.
Should hgz go the baroque ball at the without CAZ?
Or even to the Mayday?
!   was it! |
| Tue, 29 Apr 97: | 23:56, returning from the garden, having sown a wildflower-meadow-mixture with about 35 wild species. |
| Mon, 28 Apr 97: | Nabucco at the Opéra de la Bastille? No. Rather Taillevent. |
| 17th week........... | |
| Sat, 26 Apr 97: | Father and sons took the RheinJet hydrofoil from Bonn to Koblenz - only flying is better. |
| Fri, 25 Apr 97: | Claudia takes the 8:05 a.m. train from Cologne to Paris to meet Meredith, and Florence from New York. |
| Thu, 24 Apr 97: | Karen and Ian (Sangster) - the "Jamaican connection" - come to visit from Edinburgh. |
| Wed, 23 Apr 97: | BIG surprise: Fernando Pistilli called ... no, not from Paraguay, but from Regensburg: He'll visit us tomorrow (as well). |
| 16th week........... | |
| Sun, 20 April 97: | Got rid of the last heaps of "stuff" blocking the bookcase and in the hallway, followed by a little celebration in the wicker chairs on the balcony. |
| Fri, 18 April 97: | A very pleasant evening at Ederers'. |
| Thu, 17 April 97: | Britta's hair adventure. |
| Tue, 15 April 97
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Trip to SAP in Walldorf - got misled by the boss to Walldorf/Hessia instead of Walldorf near Heidelberg. |
| 15th week........... | |
| Sun, 13 April 97: | Visited poor Elspeth - back from Galapagos - at the "Arzthaus" (Jake's version of "hospital"). |
| Sat, 12 April 97: | Invitation by Helen and Christoph Eichhorn. |
| Fri, 11 Apr 97: | Fortifying Siebeck Vienna related quotes from Rüdiger Lüers, and starting to read Peter Høeg's Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne. |
| Thu, 10 Apr 97: | To see what the enemy has produced now - saw David Lynch's Lost Highway at Beuel Filmbühne. |
| Wed, 09 Apr 97: | Presentation of SNI with CSE from Salzburg at KBSt - reminiscent of "old" times. |
| 14th week........... | |
| Sun, 06 Apr 97: | Cologne Zoo, despite of doubtful weather. |
| Tue, 01 Apr 97: | Saw the comet Hale-Bopp, really. |
| 14th week........... | |
| Mon, 31 Mar 97: | Easter walk - without Goethe, hence no poodle to be seen, but the Waldau's newborn wild boars instead.
Kids fell asleep in their Radioflyers, Jake is still sleeping in the garden. |
| 13th week........... | |
| Sun, 30 Mar 97: | Jake and Louis for the third time looking for Easter eggs - after kindergarten on Thursday and American Community yesterday. |
| Sat, 29 Mar 97: | Easter Vigil in the Cologne Cathedral - candles, incense and the organ's roar. |
| Thu, 27 Mar 97: | Das Leben ist eine Baustelle (Life is a construction site, a new German movie) in Beuel. |
| 12th week........... | ||
| Sun, 23 Mar 97: | Welcome to the world for Luisa-Marie, daughter of Fiona and Thorsten! | |
| Sat, 22 Mar 97: | Frank Wedekind's Frühlings Erwachen (Spring's Wakening) at Bad Godesberg Kammerspiele.
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| Tue, 18 Mar 97: | All Berlin in one day? Just checking whether it is still there. Did you see the Ed and Nancy Kienholz Retrospective in NYC or LA? We saw it at the Martin-Gropius-Bau ... Kid's were SO good in the car. |
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| Mon, 17 Mar 97: | Whole family to visit CeBIT in Hannover - basic education for next millenium's children.
(Well, they went to the - most impressive! - Zoo.) Mental celebration of CD-ROM-burning Harald's anniversary in Quito. |
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| 11th week........... | |
| Sun, 16 Mar 97: | Driving Panda up to Hannover, and fun dinner with Olli and Miriam. Happy birthday to Nicki! |
| Thu, 13 Mar 97: | Jake passed U8 w/ distinction. |
| Wed, 12 Mar 97: | Put up the Haydn series in the kitchen, and Lucy's golden box with man and woman (and the flamingo and Packer's Cambridge) in our bedroom. |
| Tue, 11 Mar 97: | Piano and viola duos in the Schumannhaus. |
| Mon, 10 Mar 97: | Louis' first day at the kindergarden - a new era. |
| 10th week........... | ||
| Sun, 09 Mar 97: | 11:00 - Claudia and Jake visit Pongo and Perdida,
101 Dalmatians to remember Beija's Pongo of Paraguay. 13:00 - Another feast on the Floating Chinese Restaurant Ocean City. 18:00 - Organ concert in Friesdorf's St. Servatius'. |
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| Sat, 08 Mar 97: | Family countryside picknick. Samson et Dalila by Camille Saint-Saëns (cast) at the Bonn Opera. Le Petit Poisson. |
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| Fri, 07 Mar 97: | Finished IT-RK '98. | |
| Thu, 06 Mar 97: | Jake's birthday! | |
| 9th week........... | |
| Thu, 27 Feb 97: | Inaugurational apple-nut-cake. |
| Tue, 25 Feb 97: | While I spiritually formed the International Solidarity Group of Bronchitists (ISGB) with the Mackies in Miami/FL,
Helen Eichhorn and Claudia founded the Committee 15 "The Move to Berlin" of the FO's Spouses and Family Services.
The kids' eye infection and Ludwig's stomach problems seem to be over, but the kindergarten called that Jake has "Aua in my tummy". |
| Mon, 24 Feb 97: | Still sick - had to stay home. |
| 8th week........... | |
| Sun, 23 Feb 97: | Holger is sick (sinus, fever, the flew, or something - good state officials always use weekends to cure their illnesses). The family drives off to the Zoo in Cologne. |
| Sat, 22 Feb 97: | Happy birthday, Claudia! Put up the chandelier at midnight, and it's (still) hanging. |
| Fri, 21 Feb 97: | Finished draft version of IT-Rahmenkonzept 1998. |
| Thu, 20 Feb 97: | 10:25 p.m. - better. But poor Louis has fever. |
| Wed, 19 Feb 97: | 11:35 p.m. - worse. |
| Tue, 18 Feb 97: | Left the office at 10:45 p.m. - back to the old days. Little cheese celebration at home. |
| Mon, 17 Feb 97: | Bought the Flemish chandelier (see 11 Feb) - but it is possibly too heavy for our ceiling. |
| 7th week........... | |
| Fri, 14 Feb 97: | Yes, we moved in! |
| Thu, 13 Feb 97: | Our German "Mercedes S-class type" fridge will be delivered at 8:00 a.m. - no more reasons not to move in (we did not move in yesterday). |
| Wed, 12 Feb 97: | Today we move into the new appartment ... or maybe tomorrow ... but for tomorrow the weather prediction calls for snow and rain ... |
| Tue, 11 Feb 97: | Found a big Flemish chandelier at an auction house - should the Austro-Hungarian double eagle fly in our living? |
| Mon, 10 Feb 97: | Rosenmontag's big carneval parades saw us ordering clothes in the bedroom - "permanent disguising". |
| 6th week........... | ||
| Sat, 8 Feb 97: | Welcomed Isa (María Isidora) from Paraguay at the Düsseldorf Airport - she will stay with us for a year. Also visited René Magritte at the Kunstsammlung, Michail Wrubel at the Kunsthalle and Robert Doisneau in the Kunstverein. Quite a day! |
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| Thu, 6 Feb 97: | Ludwig's second birthday - let's celebrate! And: Can pick up good ol' Fiat Panda at the shop - survived Paraguay and passed German technical exams w/ virtually no repairs. |
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| Wed, 5 Feb 97: | The boxes are empty (except for a couple of dozens), the floors are full - where shall we put all the adornos? |
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| Tue, 4 Feb 97: | Paid DM 14.40 to German customs for importing 24 bottles of Chilean red wine - rest free of duties, thx. |
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| Mon, 3 Feb 97: | Did the books till midnight, halfway through. Discussions with Quelle and IKEA, centers of incompetence. |
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| 5th week........... | |
| Sun, 2 Feb 97: | Breakfast at Cartoon, dinner at Da Franco - and some emptying of boxes and putting up of shelves in between. |
| Sat, 1 Feb 97: | The boxes are IN the appartment, but most of the boxes' contents are still IN the boxes - 20.000 lbs. to be discovered. |
| Fri, 31 Jan 97: | The snow may be gone for now (look at
 1997 winter days in Bonn!),BUT THE CONTAINERS ARE HERE - we move into our new appartment Am Woltersweiher. |
