Word: crawlingly
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...Could I interest you in a pub crawl?” inquired a lady as I was standing in East Berlin’s Hackescher Market with my friend Philippe and two travel companions. As the four of us hesitated, the lady went on in a thick English accent to invite us to join a pub crawl organized that night, with free entrance to the bars and clubs and free shots, all for a ten-euro...
...organized pub crawl sounded touristy and gimmicky, but hell, free shots were a tempting offer. And I’d made this two-week stop in Berlin—in between my summer research trip in Ukraine and returning home to Korea—for no reason other than Berlin’s party town reputation (and that Philippe and another recent Harvard grad I knew were there...
...some malicious fluke in the internal wiring of human nature, there’s nothing quite as satisfying as cruising (albeit only at a cool 15mph) through the EZ-Pass lane at a particularly large and heavily trafficked toll plaza, while dozens of cars slow to a gridlocked crawl around you. What you probably aren’t thinking about, however, as you revel in the glory of your Schadenfreude, is your divorce proceedings, 10 years down the line. There, your present-day fiancee (at that point your soon-to-be ex-wife) might be using records of your...
There is something mesmeric about Ian Thorpe's style. Surrounded by the best swimmers in the world, Pieter van den Hoogenband and Michael Phelps among them, his languid crawl seems almost too slow, too casual, for the race. Van den Hoogenband appears to be pulling ahead on each of the first three laps; each time Thorpe turns beautifully and claws back the difference...
...potatoes with her three daughters and their children at Heinrich Winkelmann's farm on the heaths in Lower Saxony in northern Germany. At night, they bed down in the barn on a layer of hay. Never mind the mice audibly scurrying around in the dark or the spiders that crawl into their sleeping bags. "It's the most wonderful experience," says Ast, 47, a health-care administrator from Halle/Saale. "The hay is beautifully soft and warm and it crackles when you move." "Hay hotels" like Winkelmann's are the latest rage in a nation in which farm holidays have become...