Once a baby elephant was brought on board and it freaked out, smashed through the window and fell into the river below - and survived.Īpparently, it doesn’t matter how spectacular something is, if you see it every day, you get used to it (even the pyramids I suppose). In the other direction, we’d spoken to some German residents, who were amused at our touristic enthusiasm.

Olivia had just bought some Portuguese language books and we spoke Swedish with one of the Finnish guys. Three of them were Finnish, one was Brazilian and they were all students of Capoeira, an amazing blend of dance and martial art (they were studying under their Brazilian friend’s father). On the way back we met four nice characters, who were doing the same thing. We rode the train all the way to the last station (Vohwinkel) one way and all the way to the opposite end (Oberbarmen) before we ended up back in the middle where we started. Giant green steel girders and War Of The Worlds’ struts holding up the rail that the train hangs from like space fruit in a science fiction novel. What I hadn’t expected was how spectacular this feat of engineering actually was. So we climbed the station steps and waited 1 minute and there it was in glorious powder blue, slightly swinging from side to side. BUT, the hovertrain has been running for 119 years and we thought it’s about time we rode on it. We ventured out into Wuppertal today, we got an email back from Christian telling us that the owner of Pop Art, the record store, didn’t get back to him, so it stayed closed for Monday. Before all that we have two months in Penzance, working on various projects in the studio as mentioned in yesterday’s blog.

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