Living in Europe and having too much free time has inspired me to pick up two not-so-glamorous hobbies: keeping a blog and collecting things. To combine my two passions, a list:
-Austrian beer coasters. Anyone that can find me a Schwechater, Zwettler, or a Puntigamer would complete my collection and be my hero! Although most all Austrian beers taste the same, their coasters have cool designs and slogans. My favorites are "das bierige Bier" ("the beery beer") and "Ein Glas heller Freude" ("a glass of delightful joy"). Also, anyone with a suggestion for a lovely coaster art project please speak up!
-Currencies. The euro really ruined my opportunity to collect currencies. I've only got four so far, not counting the ten-dollar bill I've been carrying uselessly since September.
-Metro tickets. So far I've got Vienna, Prague, Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, Budapest, Athens, and Zagreb.
-Animal stickers from Billa, initially intended for children to stick in a sticker book. If anyone has the bottom-third of the giraffe sticker, I'm willing to trade.
-Postcards. I guess that one's not that weird. Send me some more.
-Photos of hairdressers with punny names like "Curl Up & Dye," "British Hairways," or "Hair Force One."
An unrelated word-of-the-day, but one which I find amusing, if a little morbid, is das Leichenschauhaus. It means "morgue," but in little German chunks it means something more like "dead body looking-at house."
-Austrian beer coasters. Anyone that can find me a Schwechater, Zwettler, or a Puntigamer would complete my collection and be my hero! Although most all Austrian beers taste the same, their coasters have cool designs and slogans. My favorites are "das bierige Bier" ("the beery beer") and "Ein Glas heller Freude" ("a glass of delightful joy"). Also, anyone with a suggestion for a lovely coaster art project please speak up!
-Currencies. The euro really ruined my opportunity to collect currencies. I've only got four so far, not counting the ten-dollar bill I've been carrying uselessly since September.
-Metro tickets. So far I've got Vienna, Prague, Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, Budapest, Athens, and Zagreb.
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| One of the only German hairdresser puns I've ever seen. It's a play on the words for "progress" and "cut." |
-Postcards. I guess that one's not that weird. Send me some more.
-Photos of hairdressers with punny names like "Curl Up & Dye," "British Hairways," or "Hair Force One."
An unrelated word-of-the-day, but one which I find amusing, if a little morbid, is das Leichenschauhaus. It means "morgue," but in little German chunks it means something more like "dead body looking-at house."
