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Soaring Kiwi and the Sauerkraut
Soaring Kiwi and the Sauerkraut | Phil Southward
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The Soaring Kiwi and the Sauerkraut is the offbeat travel tale of a hang gliding New Zealander who makes the mistake of marrying a grumpy German and moving to Munich, the city of big beer and Lederhosen you couldn't whip a high ranking motorsport official into wearing. A big life style change for the kiwi known to most of the world as: a) a small brown furry fruit b) a brand of shoe polish c) a motorcycle helmet but is in fact a small brown, nocturnal bird found only in New Zealand. And can't fly. Perfect prerequisites for our Soaring Kiwi, on his quest to become the world's worst hang gliding champion. From the: pinnacle of the dedicated dot.com entrepreneur with a cunning business plan, to the tedium trough of the underemployed with an efficient German employer that isn't climax in every teenage petrol head's wet dream of piloting a big black car really, really fast, legally, to the pit of despair while being overtaken by a Mini thrill of the first proper sentence in German, to realising said sentence could have been uttered by any good international man of mystery relief of freedom from pain, to the tortures of Germany's modern medieval medical establishment the Soaring Kiwi and the Sauerkraut is a germane journey through the highs and lows of adjusting to life in a new country with bad coffee."
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I picked up this book at random from my kindle library. Although the language is not upto the mark, it is really hilarious ! It is a witty account of a Kiwi's experiences of adjusting to life in Germany, as his 'Frau' is Deusch. I learnt several unique things about Germany, like it has the most varieties of breads in the world ! The description of Oktoberfest was interesting.