Mate! If you have never experienced a German Sylvester - the name given to New Years Eve - then you will have to add this to your 'must do before I die' list!!
The evening started l
ike most others with a shared meal, only ours was shared with 20 other people at Steiger. We enjoyed a French dish called Racklette. I likened it to pizza without the base. Each individual serving is prepared on a shovel like pan filled with different ingredients varying from salmon, salami, and pickles to peaches, pears and walnuts, topped with a special m
elting cheese and then heated under an element. Very tastey!! After dinner we entertained each other with a variation on Karaoke - lipsinking popular songs dressed up in costume - a bit like Stars in their Eyes. Kate, Jorgi and I performed t
o 'Man I feel Like A Woman' by Shania Twaine. Everyone got into it, with none of the usual inhibitions. It was Awesome!
ike most others with a shared meal, only ours was shared with 20 other people at Steiger. We enjoyed a French dish called Racklette. I likened it to pizza without the base. Each individual serving is prepared on a shovel like pan filled with different ingredients varying from salmon, salami, and pickles to peaches, pears and walnuts, topped with a special m
elting cheese and then heated under an element. Very tastey!! After dinner we entertained each other with a variation on Karaoke - lipsinking popular songs dressed up in costume - a bit like Stars in their Eyes. Kate, Jorgi and I performed t
o 'Man I feel Like A Woman' by Shania Twaine. Everyone got into it, with none of the usual inhibitions. It was Awesome!At about 11:55 everyone headed for the roof top of the 4 story Steiger building to prepare for midnight. Right on the minute all of Karlsruhe seemed to explode in a shock of noise and colour. Every household was now letting off all their fireworks at once. Within 5 mins distant buildings were nolonger visible in the haze, and all you could see was the clourful fireworks display lighting up every corner of the sky. In the morning the fallen remnants of the night before covered the streets like a shredded blanket, left for the city to clean up. It seems one night a year the Germans take leave of their festidious environmentally green senses and let loose! Photos of this later, as they are on e Kates camera.
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