Unicyclists in Germany, Eurocycle

I’m in the progress of putting my plans together for the summer, but if all
goes well, I’ll be spending a month or two in Germany this summer. So I’ve
got two questions:

To any unicyclists in the area of Germany, want to hang out? :slight_smile: Since a
lot of my plans involve just wandering around, without a confirmed place to
stay, I doubt I’ll be able to actually take a unicycle with me (hmm,
although, a Coker would be fun to take).

My not-yet-finalized plans involve staying in Mariburg with a group of
students, attempting to come closer to being fluent in German frm early
June through early July. So, I could probably book an earlier flight, and
arrive in time for Eurocycle.

Anyone have anthing to say about Eurocycle? Anyone want to offer me a
place to sleep during, and perhaps briefly after? (I don’t yet have enough
confidence in my German that I’d want to try wandering about on my own too
much.)

And since I’ll already be in Germany, I’m going to have to wait around for
the European Juggling Convention, of course.

So, if all this goes according to plan, I’ll miss out on NUC and Unicon,
but for a chance to briefly live out of my native culture, I think it’s a
worthy exchange. I hope to see as much of Germany, and other parts of
europe as my language skills, and finances (both of which are very small)
will permit, and if I can do it on a unicycle, even better. :wink:

Jeff Lutkus


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Re: Unicyclists in Germany, Eurocycle

“Jeff Lutkus” <lutkus@unicyclist.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1014686743.4646.rsu@unicycling.org
> Anyone have anthing to say about Eurocycle? Anyone want to offer me a
> place to sleep during, and perhaps briefly after? (I don’t yet have
enough
> confidence in my German that I’d want to try wandering about on my own too
> much.)
>
Last years Eurocycle had both ‘classroom camping’ for free & campsite
accomodation, probably be the same at this one?

Oh and as for worrying about wandering about, I went to Germany last year,
two of us with GCSE German (exam which means you can ask for a cup of tea,
but not very much more) from several years back. We stayed in youth hostels
which are very cheap and always run by people who understand English in case
you’re worried about language problems.
http://www.djh.de/international/index.htm

We also found almost everyone understood enough English to understand us
when we couldn’t cope with the German, especially young people, who usually
seem to have almost perfect English.

I’ve cycled a weeny little bit in Germany, would definately suggest taking a
Coker if you can get it over there, its a nice place to ride around and it
would save you getting the quite expensive trains to visit places that
weren’t too far away.

Joe