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September
24, 2006 -- Munich
Pre-Show:
Makeup. This was a forty-minute procedure that Diana endured with her
usual good grace. If the organizers of the show had taken the same pains
to find her a good simultaneous interpreter, all would have been really
well.
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Pre-Show:
An assistant shows Diana where she's going to sit during the show, which
was held at the historical Prinzregententheater, red carpet, evening gowns,
Bavarian in-crowd – oh, TV broadcast -- and all.
More
about this beautiful setting here.
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Pre-Show:
The results, of the mammoth makeup session, preserved for posterity.
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Pre-show:
Chatting with Jonathan Stroud, author of the young-adult (but very
popular with the grown-up crowd as well) “Bartimaeus” trilogy.
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Pre-show:
The spectators start to fill the theater.
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The show
begins: Host Desirée Nosbusch presents the Corine.
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The presentation of
Jonathan Stroud's award was one of the nicest parts of the show, with two
actors reading a scene from the book, one being its regular voice, the
second, sitting at the foot, reading the ubiquitous footnotes.
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Jonathan
Stroud accepts his award for the
Bartimaeus Trilogy.
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Another
true highlight of the evening: Actor Klaus Maria Brandauer (“Out of
Africa”, “Mephisto”) reads a letter by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He's
done an audiobook
of those letters, for which he was awarded.
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German
actress ...
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Zimmermann ...
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The grand
finale: The award winners and their presenters line up on the stage to
have their pictures taken. Here Diana shakes hands with Bavarian prime
minister Edmund Stoiber, who hosted the event.
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September
27, 2006 -- Warendorf
After
a visit to the Nymphenburg
Porcellain Manufacture and a reading
in Augsburg on the day after the show, Diana spent a couple of days
with me and my family before going home again.
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So
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This is the town where not
only the German FN and the German Olympic Riding Committee but also the
Northrhine-Westfalian Stud Farm are based.
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This
establishment holds one of the great horse events in Germany every year
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the Stud Parade. |
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Since these
Stud Farms have long traditions firmly rooted in Prussian military life, I
thought Lord John might profit from it as well.
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These images are a few
impressions from the Parade we saw ...
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... and you'll find more info here. |
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Of course I took ...
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a few touristy shots ... |
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of Diana as well. |
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September
28, 2006 – Krefeld / Neanderthal / Krefeld
Half a
year ago, my sister made a longtime dream of hers come true and opened a
small cafe. Here
Diana signs her guestbook.
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Diana and my daughter
Franca pose for me, looking out of the roof of Franca's very own first car,
a Renault Twingo.
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Since
last time Diana “only” got to see the Neanderthal
museum, this time we took her back to see the ice age wildlife park
– a beautiful spot that I cannot recommend highly enough to anyone who
happens to be in the region.
(Photo
by Richard Jacobs)
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This is
the local herd of aurochs cattle http://www.neanderthal.de/d_museum/g_wildgehege
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“Human
Traces” is an art path that belongs to the outdoor area of the museum.
It presents a series of artworks, partly integrated into nature so that
you have to look hard for them, partly picking up natural shapes and
patterns, like this spiral, which was, oddly enough, created by an artist
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The
original site in the Düssel valley where quarry workers found the
skeleton that shook the world years before Darwin is long gone, because it
was part of a working limestone quarry. However, it must have
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The whole
enchilada: This time, customs didn't confiscate the tortillas and stuff
Diana sent ahead, so we did get our “traditional” enchilada meal, and
my daughter's very own kitchen has now earned its very own “Diana
Gabaldon Cooked Here” plaque. Thanks, Diana! Hope you had as much fun as
we did.
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