We celebrated St. Paddy's Day at the Bray Head Pub with some new friends that we met this week. The Bray Head, which is a 15" walk from our apartment, is owned by Dennis. Dennis is from Ireland, and this pub is well known for its authentic Irish food and beer, which is brewed about 100 yards from the pub.
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| Dennis and I celebrating St. Paddy's Day in his bar. |
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| Here is the bar, which was long and narrow; it got much more crowded and very hot before the night was over! |
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| We met these guys on Tuesday night at Wolf's Wirsthaus. Matt (from Texas; not pictured) organizes a "Meetup" of expats living in Karlsruhe. On the left is Mike, from England, then ALG, David, from Ireland, and Jan, David's friend from Germany. Mike is a manager at Ungerboeck Software (convention logistics management), David is a sales rep for Adobe, and Jan is a physics PhD student at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Also in the picture...lots of great, locally brewed Pilsner beer and stout ale. |
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| More friends. We met Robin (far left) at the Bray Head on Thursday night. He's from Saratoga Springs, NY, retired Army ranger, who now maintains the boats and waterways at the Karlsruhe zoo. Elise, far right, is from Missouri; we also met her on Tuesday night at the "Meetup." She also works for Ungerboeck Software and her husband is a grad from Rose Hulman, in Terre Haute, IN. None of these folks have any desire to leave Germany and return to the U.S. to live...I'm beginning to understand why! |
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