Scott Alan Miller :: A Life Online
Today is my final day in Germany. I will leave Germany by rail first thing tomorrow morning (Monday) and travel back to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and fly back to Dublin where I will set for three hours, again, before flying back to JFK in New York. I slept in again this morning; …
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Today was the day that I set aside for seeing the Osnabruck Old Town – the historic district left standing after the bombings in World War II that flattened most of the city. Fortunately the Rathaus, City Hall, which is Osnabruck’s most important landmark was not hit. I slept in until very late morning. I …
After finally managing to fall asleep last night at two in the morning I miraculously slept for eleven hours not waking up until one in the afternoon! It was awesome. I am feeling so much better now. Getting that sleep gave my body the strength that it needed to beat back this flu and put …
„Quintili Vare, legiones redde!“ Today is, as best as anyone can judge, the bimillennial (2,000th) anniversary of the Battle of Teutoburger Wald (Teutoburg Forest) between Varus and his Roman Legions and the German barbarians united under Arminius (Hermann.) More than twenty thousand, maybe even twenty five thousand, Roman soldiers were slaughtered on this day – …
My flight on Aer Lingus from New York’s JFK airport to Dublin, Ireland went really well. We had an eight mile per hour tailwind and completed the Atlantic crossing in just five and a half hours. It went by really quickly. I barely noticed it at all. I had a nice Irish lady sitting beside …