"Borowski und der coole Hund" is part of a 'movie-series' belonging to the genre crime-thriller. The series appears in German TV and has a fix rage of commissars in different cities - each movie is showing one of them with a current (of course fictive) case while the cases them selves are not related to each other.
"Borowski und der coole Hund" is set in my home town Kiel and the commissar is called Borowski as seen in the title.
Donnerstag, 8. Dezember 2011
Dienstag, 6. Dezember 2011
Extreme sports
The first extreme sport I decided to research is:
Parkour
Wikipedia defines it as "a method of movement focused on moving around obstacles with speed and efficiency. " - and that's what it is basically about. People jump and climb around in their (most urban) environment, while they use every possible object as an obstacle they have to overcome. Like this they run on (!) walls, jump over the handrail of escalators and climb up buildings. This also often results in accidents like you can see in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYTcodJ2YQ8
Your body needs to be in a very good condition - because even if it's looks very easy it takes a lot of strength and concentration, this is also the reason why people fail so often trying it.
I still remember we once did it in school - not outside but inside the gym, where we arranged an artificial parkour with different pieces of sport equipment and then tried to jump and run over things as fast and accident-free as possible. I just remember that most of us (including me) failed terribly...it is really hard !
But I have a great respect for people who succeed in doing this, like in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPIw3cv8Zls
they even made a hole story out of it! Really impressive. This shows that incredible stunts don't only exist in Hollywood!
The second extreme sport I chose is :
Extreme tourism
Even if this doesn't sound like an extreme sport on the first sight, you find it on the internet when you search for extreme sports. This expression stands for the kind of tourist that doesn't invest in things like hotels and tourist attraction, but that goes to especially dangerous and adventurous places. As they go to this places they of course don't lie in bed or at the beach all like normal tourists do, and this makes it (in my opinion) also a sport:
They travel to places like mountains, jungles, deserts and caves to make extreme experiences - they climb up high in the mountains, sometimes without safeguard, they slap through the jungle next to wild animals which could easily attack them during the night when they camp in self-built tents. They also camp in the desert, always fearing they could run out of water if they don't find the next city, exposing their bodies to extreme situations.
Parkour
Wikipedia defines it as "a method of movement focused on moving around obstacles with speed and efficiency. " - and that's what it is basically about. People jump and climb around in their (most urban) environment, while they use every possible object as an obstacle they have to overcome. Like this they run on (!) walls, jump over the handrail of escalators and climb up buildings. This also often results in accidents like you can see in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYTcodJ2YQ8
Your body needs to be in a very good condition - because even if it's looks very easy it takes a lot of strength and concentration, this is also the reason why people fail so often trying it.
I still remember we once did it in school - not outside but inside the gym, where we arranged an artificial parkour with different pieces of sport equipment and then tried to jump and run over things as fast and accident-free as possible. I just remember that most of us (including me) failed terribly...it is really hard !
But I have a great respect for people who succeed in doing this, like in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPIw3cv8Zls
they even made a hole story out of it! Really impressive. This shows that incredible stunts don't only exist in Hollywood!
The second extreme sport I chose is :
Extreme tourism
Even if this doesn't sound like an extreme sport on the first sight, you find it on the internet when you search for extreme sports. This expression stands for the kind of tourist that doesn't invest in things like hotels and tourist attraction, but that goes to especially dangerous and adventurous places. As they go to this places they of course don't lie in bed or at the beach all like normal tourists do, and this makes it (in my opinion) also a sport:
They travel to places like mountains, jungles, deserts and caves to make extreme experiences - they climb up high in the mountains, sometimes without safeguard, they slap through the jungle next to wild animals which could easily attack them during the night when they camp in self-built tents. They also camp in the desert, always fearing they could run out of water if they don't find the next city, exposing their bodies to extreme situations.
My road-trip through Europe
The departure point of my trip will be my hometown Kiel Kiel
As the theme of the trip I chose “capital cities and their arts museums” – as I on the one hand always wanted to go to a lot of those cities because of their architecture and sights, and as on the other hand I am very interested in art in its presentation all over the world.
So these are the cities I want to visit:
brussels (2:18 h)
prag (3:27 h)
warsaw (9:09 h)
kopenhagen (6:34 h)
If you consider that I always need one “travel-day” to get from one city to the next one and I stay approximately between 2 and 3 nights in each place (depending on how much I like it), this would lead to a total endurance between 25 (2 nights each city) and 37 days (3 nights each city), which would make a total 4 to 6 weeks of road trip.
This is what my route would look like on the map:
I would probably rent a caravan for this trip so that I have a car and by bed all in once, so I dont have to search for hotels on my way. Like the protagonist in "Travels with Charlie" I would probably also go to some road hotels every now and then just to have an alternation to the small caravan-bed and -room.
Furthermore I think I wouldnt take anybody with me but my dog, because I really liked this idea as it is presented in "Travels with Charlie" - just to be on your own, you don't need to talk to somebody or look after anybody but yourself. A dog gives you the feeling of not being lonely but still is noone that askes questions or need conversation or entertainment the whole time. Additionally he can protect you.
If I would take someone with me it would be my best friend Vivi, because it is really relaxed with her and even if you're in a quiet, contemplative or bad mood she wouldn't ask too many questions or stress you with seeking a conversation the whole time. She wouldn't be offended either if you're not friendly once because you're not in a good mood or just want to be left alone, but she would understand that and do something on her own as well until the both of you are in the mood for companionship again.
Before we (either my dog and me or my best friend and me, maybe both) would leave we would go food shopping. I think you can't do this spontaniously but have to make a list before so that you're not going to run out of food unexpectedly during your trip.
Basically I would buy:
bread + cold meat, cheese, butter and jelly
pasta + prefabricated sauces
salad (lettuce, cucumber, peppers, onions, carrots) + dressing
rice
creme fraiche/cream + milk
cereals
vacuumized and welded meat
noodles
fruits like apples, bananas, grapes...
sausages + hot dog rolls
ketchup + mustard
bottled water and juice
beer + wine
...and loooots of sweets!
and food for my dog of course
This won't be enough for the whole trip for sure, but to keep my food fresh I would make some stops at the supermarket during the trip, and I would for sure go to some restaurants in the cities as well!
This is what my route would look like on the map:
I would probably rent a caravan for this trip so that I have a car and by bed all in once, so I dont have to search for hotels on my way. Like the protagonist in "Travels with Charlie" I would probably also go to some road hotels every now and then just to have an alternation to the small caravan-bed and -room.
Furthermore I think I wouldnt take anybody with me but my dog, because I really liked this idea as it is presented in "Travels with Charlie" - just to be on your own, you don't need to talk to somebody or look after anybody but yourself. A dog gives you the feeling of not being lonely but still is noone that askes questions or need conversation or entertainment the whole time. Additionally he can protect you.
If I would take someone with me it would be my best friend Vivi, because it is really relaxed with her and even if you're in a quiet, contemplative or bad mood she wouldn't ask too many questions or stress you with seeking a conversation the whole time. She wouldn't be offended either if you're not friendly once because you're not in a good mood or just want to be left alone, but she would understand that and do something on her own as well until the both of you are in the mood for companionship again.
Before we (either my dog and me or my best friend and me, maybe both) would leave we would go food shopping. I think you can't do this spontaniously but have to make a list before so that you're not going to run out of food unexpectedly during your trip.
Basically I would buy:
bread + cold meat, cheese, butter and jelly
pasta + prefabricated sauces
salad (lettuce, cucumber, peppers, onions, carrots) + dressing
rice
creme fraiche/cream + milk
cereals
vacuumized and welded meat
noodles
fruits like apples, bananas, grapes...
sausages + hot dog rolls
ketchup + mustard
bottled water and juice
beer + wine
...and loooots of sweets!
and food for my dog of course
This won't be enough for the whole trip for sure, but to keep my food fresh I would make some stops at the supermarket during the trip, and I would for sure go to some restaurants in the cities as well!
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