Bloody Walloon rail unions. Hope they go the way of Bob Crow.

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Classic Jorge]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

Anyway, how on earth can you organise a trade union membership by language???

[Classic Jorge]

try not to drive it into the canal though, eh?

I'm off to Leiden soon :thumbup:

[Mo Britain less Europe]

there watching on telly when Nayim scored that bloody goal!

[redgunamo]

*German humour; "Leiden" is their word for pain, suffering.

[Berni]

Sorry. German Wars of Religion humour.

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[pjlincs]

in after their rather drawn out execution, have we not?
I lived in Muenster until I was 10. My daughter, born and brought up in south Lincs, has just started university in Groningen in the Netherlands. Her housemate directly across from her room is from Muenster, his parents living just two streets from where I did.

[Classic Jorge]

Interesting links across that stretch of water, Hanseatic ports and everything.

[Berni]

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT3pYntwI2c4fBdklIv1wbjZg9DMTD_F VwZZJyLjn_UtgsbKl_Q

I find the thirty years war fascinating because it's almost impossible to understand anything about Germany without understanding it. And yet we had our own **** going on back then, steered well clear of it and so understand little or nothing about it. Indeed, there are very few good English works on it.

That said, it is as bitch to follow and seemed to just end up with various armies rampaging through Germany because they had f**k all else to do.

[Berni]

execution back then. A bit of spectacle. None of this ****ty lethal injection rubbish.

[pjlincs]

connection between Muenster and Groningen. Daughter is at the Rijksuniversiteit but as I read your post the lightbulb went on about the Hanze University of Applied Sciences also in the city.
The nearest to here is Kings Lynn (though it was only a Bishop in those times). You have to apply a lot of imagination to see it as a prosperous and thriving port!