A belated Happy St Patricks day

A belated Happy St Patricks day to you all. From Lima, peru. For the first time in over 10 years-I did not celebrate the feast day with my brother. My brother is in Dusseldorf. He has gone to the Altstadt, and its 4 Irish pubs, and buxom and winsome waitresses.
 So it is the end of a tradition that started in 2002. I had been in my last job for a few months. I had not taken a day off. From somewhere I got the idea of going to NYC for St Patricks day. I am not sure from where. My brother was not so enthusiastic at first. The events of 9-11 were fresh in his mind. He asked me what would happen, if terrorists boarded the plane. Our first time navigating JFK, we had a nightmare navigating the I-90 form. On the way back, I was thrown off a flight.
We never met our cousin. We were supposed to rendevous with my cousin in NYC. We never did. We waited and waited outside the trump tower.
For five years we drunk in Desmonds, bar in NYC. Then we ran out of money and went to colonge.
Why colonge, because I had been there the year before and there was a very good Irish pub there.
The Corkonian.

 In 2011 I went to Virginina beach. There I am under blue skies.

Which was a big change from being pale and interesting in chicago, in 2009
That is a lego T Rex. My brother and I passed out we were so drunk, that day. We did 200 dollars worth of damage, to our hotel. We were so drunk.

This is me myself, and my brother and sister in NYC.

This year, I did not expect to do anything. Lima, has but 1 Irish pub. Which is in Miraflores. An hour away at least. No fun, with a full bladder. Lima is a city, where you cannot walk the streets safely. Forget about crime. The pavements are full of potholes, and some of the flagstones are actually polished.

I expected to work on the 18th, so I did not make plans. Then I heard, I did not have too. So I wanted to go to miraflores. But Lima, has been dry for an election. I wanted then to have a small party for the kids. But my card is blocked. When troubles come here, they come in Army group strength, let alone single spies, or Battalions.

Dusseldorf

Dusseldorf notes

If you ask for tea, they give you chocolate biscuits. Rather a packet of cheese snacks on the British Airways flight
The ticket Machines at the airport, do not accept notes larger than 10 euro's
I had printed out maps to the wrong hotel. I only noticed this on the train
My hotel is Russian run, and caters for visitors from there
There is a deserted hooters here. How did I miss it in 2009?
In O Rielly's if you ask for an Alt they give you a pint of Alt bier
You can still smoke in German pubs
A northerner was speaking loudly about Bravestar the TV series, in Tir na nog. ``Ears of the wolf''
There is construction work everywhere.
They give you a little tub of snacks, with your drinks, pretzels, and cheese snacks
Spoke to a pretty Canadian waitress in an Irish bar, in Germany=globalisation
Made it to breakfast just in time
I had a frankfurter, and scrambled eggs
Oh, and pickles, and orange juice
Germans are very helpful. They will switch to English quickly. Lady in coffee shop, lady in the post shop, lady in the 1 euro shop
Saw ducks
We wnt up the Rhinetower, it is was a very warm day. I had a cherry ice cream, on top of the rhine tower
We saw a kite from the rhine tower
Someone on the left bank of the rhine, made a smiley face, in the sand. Which could be see from the Rhine tower
We went on a boat
We had cokes,they gave us free drinks and they kept playing the theme to Titanic
Lots of Japanese in Dusseldorf 2 Japanese kindergartens, and a school. This is from the boat commentary
Saw a woman in a high viv bib working on a rhine barge full of sand. ( the barge was full of sand)
Than to the Film Museum
Film Museum is cheap, 3 euro's it has a lot of props, and old cameras. Lots of  Japanese costumes. There were shadow puppets
Do kids, still try and make hand shadows?
There were what the butler saw machines.
Joan of Arc, in German is Johanna von Orleans
Saw the end of silence of the lambs, and a Goodfellas poster in German.
Not much stuff, about German film between 1933-45
Woman in the supermarket, name tag refers to her as Frau....Rather than her first name
Very pretty girl eating soup
I had dutch fries for lunch,
Someone feeds the birds. They are a health hazard
There was a protest against atomic power yesterday. They used the three eyed fish from the Simpsons
We went into a bank, as my brother was so startled by the building, that he wanted to look inside. It was just a normal bank
Saw a memorial to a lost synagogue