Herr Mike in Deutschland

Phew, apologies for my lack of a post but I have had a very busy weekend! I've just been trying to meet as many people as possible to make some friends and I have met some really nice people. On Friday I went out with James from Manchester (Left in the pic with John, another Englishman). He has gone home now as this was his last weekend here but I was made up when he invited me along to his final night out. We had a few cheap drinks in the bar in our basement and then headed to the local english pub owned by two lads from essex. I met all of the other ex-pats there and had few jars before we went on to E-Werk the main nightspot in Erlangen. It was soo hot and pretty dingy (a bit like The Warehouse in Preston - the club, not the accomodation we used to live in) but I had a really good laugh which I needed after a week sat in the office.
I got up late on saturday and went back to the english pub with james for a proper english breakfast, the best hangover cure in the world!! We stayed there chatting with the owners and the other guys before we left for Nell's bday party at Bar Zen, a posh bar/restaraunt. There were lots of people there, inculding some of work colleagues. I managed to make small talk in German which actually seems easier after a few glasses of Kitzmann (The Erlangen Bier). Had a bit of a dance and rolled in pretty late again.

I have spent today (Sunday) just chillin, helped James move some of his stuff out and also managed to scavenge some of the stuff he didn't want. I was sad to see him go. He is studying in Liverpool so perhaps we might meet up back home. I then went to a restaraunt with Nell and two of her friends for lunch which was nice before we visited Andy and Meto (Meto is the bulgarian guy, andy is german) who were making France shirts from bin liners to pass the time until kick off later, not sure where I'm going to watch the final. It's been really good to socialise and be out and about, have to get an early night as I am sitting in on meetings all day tomorrow, Viel Spass!!! Bis gleich, Mike x