Cailaigh

Another view out the window, this is one of my favourite buildings in Wiesbaden.  It's a water tower and for some resason I find it a hugely appealing building.  If you go large you might see the detailed railing at the top (bear in my mind this is miles from my office).

The "highlight" of my day was the bus journey home. 

I always dread what will get on at the Platz der Deutschen Einheit.  There are a LOT of people who congregate there to drink the day away.  And the majority of them are not happy drunks. 

5 of them got on the bus.  They decided to stand in the middle of the bus and bicker among themselves.  Always sets me on edge.

And meanwhile behind me, a loud, posh young Englsihwoman was explaining to a young American woman what a Cailaigh* was...

"So it's an Irish dance party where everybody gets up and joins in.  Nobody nowadays knows all the steps to the dances, so you just try to copy someone who looks like they know what they're doing.  And anyway, you're just there to drink and have a good time."

She also said that she thinks the "point of the language there is to put as many vowels in before it looks stupid, like in Russian where it's to put in as many consonants as possible"

I can see where she's coming from, bless her.  The absolute certainty of youth and all that.

Still it distracted me from the Five In Need Of A Bath And Some Teeth.

*She spelled it out and I was so taken with it I had to use it.  I prefer the more usual cèilidh or ceilidh myself.