{"id":54,"date":"2003-12-13T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-13T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/blog\/archives\/54"},"modified":"2017-09-21T16:58:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T16:58:42","slug":"visit-to-marrie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/2003\/12\/13\/visit-to-marrie\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit to M\u00e4rrie"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know that it's high time I finally post some photos from New Zealand and Australia – and I promise I'll get to it one of these days! But there are so many of them, it's kind of intimidating… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Therefore I thought I'd share some of the pics from my last visit with my German friend M\u00e4rrie this November. We had, as always, a wonderful time, with lots of talk and laughter – and a couple of special highlights.<\/p>\n

We went over the border to the Netherlands one day and spend a day sight-seeing in beautiful Maastricht<\/b>.
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\nMe in front of one of the buildings of the university there, and M\u00e4rrie on the old city walls.<\/font><\/p>\n


\nThe church of St. Servaas was very impressive – I have never seen so many holy relics in one place! On the other hand there was this one church that had been converted into bike parking – and some really cute houses.<\/font><\/lj-cut><\/p>\n

So I really liked Maastricht – but the climax of this visit was the day we spent at RingCon<\/b> in Bonn. My very first convention and a day full of cool experiences and cool meetings with fellow Lord of the Rings fans.
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\nWe even dressed up (as Eowyn of Rohan and an unidentified dark Elf) – but ours were by far not the most original costumes, as you can see.<\/font><\/p>\n

The con was also an opportunity to get to see and meet some people involved in the making of the movies.
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\nBruce Hopkins plays Gamling (King Theoden's right hand) in 'The Two Towers', and I had a nice chat with him. I also had the special task to give some of the guests tiny braids for the Fellowship of the Wee Scarvies, as a way of showing them our appreciation – so that's what Mark Ferguson (Gil-Galad from the 'Fellowship of the Ring' prologue) and Roger and Carola from Weta Workshop (while turning a harmless girl into a really evil-looking Orc) are holding in their hands. \ud83d\ude42<\/font><\/p>\n

In the evening there we got to see the star guests. John Rhys-Davies (Gimli the dwarf) was amazing, and Craig Parker (Haldir – the Elf who dies at Helm's Deep) managed to crack us up in his show with Mark Ferguson. I filmed a couple of short .avi clips from their panels: Two<\/a> clips<\/a> of John Rhys-Davies, about a boating accident with a certain Elf, and one<\/a> of Craig Parker trying (and failing) to get out of saying Haldir's line “The dwarf was breathing so loud, I could have shot him in the dark!”<\/lj-cut><\/p>\n

There were many more experiences, of course, but I think that's more than enough. Except that I still want to post the pic from the birth house of Beethoven, which stands in Bonn:
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Now that that's done, I promise to post pictures from down under soon! But first – a wonderful holiday season to all of you! *hugs*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know that it's high time I finally post some photos from New Zealand and Australia – and I promise I'll get to it one of these days! But there are so many of them, it's kind of intimidating… \ud83d\ude42 Therefore I thought I'd share some of the pics from my last visit with my … <\/p>\n

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