dear home-stayers, during the next two weeks i won’t be blogging anything at all! why? -well, i will be spending zero thoughts on the internet, my blog, emails, downloads, news and so on, but rather enjoy the manifold joys of life on the gorgeous greek island crete. no worries, just sandy beach, sea, and sun! damn, i am really looking forward to it! kai and ramona are also there, but have chosen for crete’s “ballermann” or lloret de mar, so to say. i am curious how they like it there, so far i have only understood that it’s needless to bring more than one pullover or long pants, since it’s truely hot there, somewhat around 40 degrees celsius. whatever… my suitcase is almost packed, and guess what, it’s a real lightweight as opposed to my trip to dublin, not to mention alice’s suitcase when she came back from ireland… — it’s my father’s birthday today. normally, we would have fruit-pies or cakes for teatime with the family, but he has conferences all afternoon. so we will only be having an extraordinary lunch together before i start my next travel-adventure: for the first time, i will not be using my car to drive to krefeld, nor use regulary train service of the deutsche bahn, no, this time i will be using the rostock-cologne line from interconnex. they are operating only twice a day, so cologne-rostock and back, but they are ultra-cheap. especially when you are younger than 26, because you get a 30% reduction on their rediculous prices. well, rediculous, big word; but i will save 11 euros for the same route and just spend 20 minutes in cologne’s main station because i have to switch to a regular train taking me to krefeld. although prices are comparable to using the car, a travel time of 3.5 hours is still a lot, if you can do it in 1 hour 50 minutes by car, given your right foot is really heavy that day and the motorways are empty enough ;). — of course we will take pictures, pictures, and pictures. we are equipped with my s30 and alice’s ixus 330, which makes a pretty promising duett together with a total of 512 mb flash memory and 4 batteries. now, be calm and DO envy us, but don’t expect emails, blogs, or pictures before july 18. cherete!