Amazing...an almost identical experience driving home for Christmas 1990 from Holland :o

Well if we're going to start talking about Christmas songs that bring tears to the eyes... this one always chokes me up considerably:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlf---13Q0g

I was still in the army here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...%2C_Modell.jpg

when the Gulf War started in 1990...

....and I had to get here

http://www.flensburg-online.de/fotos/nordertor-2.jpg

that was 1.031 km from door to door...

Edit: I did that once a week... :o

Mine was a shortish drive to Europort from Dordrecht then a ferry crossing followed by a drive from Hull to home.

Well Jim,

even older guys like we both are can be overwhelmed by emotions some time. Being separated from our beloved for a period of time and awaiting the worst can do "wonders"

Yes, that is really a nice comprehensive analysis of the situation:

http://www.snoopypictures.org/wp-con...-red-baron.jpg

Edit: I remember sitting on a flight on an UN air plane (Transall) from SARAJEVO to Cologne with bullet holes like that....

Rgr that matey....family is sacrosant http://www.psionguild.org/forums/ima...s/thumbsup.gif

Heintje? Wasnt he the Dutch revenge for 1940?

Btw bavarian Music is always pretty. :O:

Well if you dont like the Jodln, then something more modern maybe ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x954vuRGdz8

Yikes, bring back the Jodln. Anything's better than WDWD.*



Anyway, I just bought my Christmas presents for myself. I won't get to enjoy them until next year, but the anticipation should be fun:



Cincinnnati Symphony Orchestra, Feb 3/4 2012

• BRAHMS: Academic Festival Overture
• SZYMANOWSKI: Violin Concerto No. 1
• BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3, Eroica

Cincinnnati Symphony Orchestra, Feb 24/25 2012

• LISZT: From the Cradle to the Grave
• SCHUMANN: Piano Concerto
• BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 6, Pastoral

Cincinnnati Symphony Orchestra, Mar 23/24 2012

• BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto
• BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique

:rock: :rock: :rock: :rock: :rock:





*White Dude With Dreadlocks *shudder*

Heintje was the revenge for everything we did since we became the Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation

Crap! Nothing like that is anywhere near me unless I drive over an Hour both ways.
:nope:
Guess Santa don't like me no more.

There are some definite advantages to living closer to the wretched hives of scum and villainy of the world. :smug: