Mar 24, 2025
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A kickass wrist watch
Photos from my childhood. Summer 1997. I’m the one pigtails in both pictures. First photo was my birthday I got a Winnie the Pooh cake. I was wearing my favorite The a little a mermaid swim suit but can’t see the image in the photo. Second photo my sister is showing off her new rugrats shirt.
Overview of places in Summer 1997
Guten Tag! Bonjour! I wanted to continue on with my preview of Summer 1997 to let you know where I went. I had a two month rail pass in which I could choose to go on weekend trips. I was able only to use the railpass up to the 20th July 1997, as I would not be able to use the pass on 17th August because it would have expired. With my limited wages as a Praktikant, I had to take advantage of certain discounts as available.
An overview where I went in Summer 1997 Paris CDG to Paris Nord by RER Champs des Elysees, La Defense Cergy-Pontoise, the entry to EuroDisney Notre Dame de Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou and Chatelet les Halles Bercy 2 mall, Montmartre and Sacre Coeur Paris Gare de l'Est to Strasbourg, Kehl, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, and Munich Dachau, Starnberger See Landshut, Regensburg (spent Saturday overnight there!), Salzburg Zurich, Milan Pilsen, Prague Hamburg, Flensburg Stuttgart, Ulm, Neu-Ulm, Füssen for Neuschwanstein Castle Park de Luxembourg, Eiffel Tower Site of Bastille prison
homeward flight via JFK
All in all it was a nice summer. I hope to recount everything from the 26th May to 19th August 1997. For some places I have photos and I recorded music from the radio on a HS-J3NN series radio that was on its last legs but it still recorded quite good material even then, onto C90 blank cassettes.
My good camera stopped taking flash photos, so I had to buy a cheap one in Stuttgart. I replaced that one in April 1998, but even that had to be replaced.
The summer in 1997 prompted me to try my luck at a Werkstudent position which I was able to get for summer 1998.
Anyway I hope next week to have some stories of what happened during the last week of May 1997. Hope you will join me then.
Preview to Summer 1997 in Munich
Spring 1997 Hi everyone! Since it has been almost 25 years when I first worked in Munich, I wanted to write as much about the time I lived and worked there as a Praktikant. A Praktikant is basically an "intern". At the place where I worked, it was paid at least enough to make living and working worthwhile. I learned what it was like to work in a computer programming and support capacity. I also was able to visit places around Munich as well.
What I can do, is to write at least one or two stories from the 14 weeks that I was in Europe. I may not be able to remember everything from Summer 1997, but hopefully I can let you know what life was like back then. The Munich of 2021 as I visited in July last year, is different than the Munich of 1997 in many ways. The old buildings for the most part are still standing.
To give an overview, I worked at an office next door to the St. Martin Strasse S-Bahn station in Munich. There was a V-Markt down the street where I could go grocery shopping, though I preferred the predecessor to the Kaufland store at Neuperlach-Zentrum. I found a student living arrangement at the former US Army barracks in the Giesing district close to the site of the future St. Quirin Strasse U Bahn station, I arranged to buy monthly rail passes at the "Ausbildungstarif II" rate, which was less than half of the regular rate. At the time I was not yet 25 years old, so I qualified for such cheap rates. The rent was also just 400 D-Mark, and it was deducted monthly by bank account. There was a bus that went from the St Quirin Platz construction site to the Silberhornstrasse U Bahn station, and I could take it to the Giesing S Bahn station and make it to St. Martin Strasse. I worked and lived there from about 29th May to 17th August 1997. I flew from San Francisco, to New York JFK and farther on to Charles de Gaulle T1, so I started and ended the summer in Paris.
Anyway I will do my best to show what happened in Summer 1997. You might have already seen my stories from Summer 1998. I will put those stories in the Tumblr archives as well. Hope you will enjoy.
au revoir auf Wiedersehen
Good times!
I have friends who were born after I first played D&D. I just realized this. what.