November 14, 2009
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Reportage: The sleepy coastal village of Lancee Sans Direction (LSD) was thrown into a state of turmoil today when news of a foiled environmental theft of Gargantuan proportions began to materialise. Veteran postman, Hermien Le Post, was delivering a package of lightly seasoned black puddings and a bottle of ‘86 Chateau Dominique to Pascal Le Phare, lighthouse keeper and organist at La Chapelle de Notre Dame, when they spotted masked men rowing to and from shore with what looked like large bundles of leaves. “It was completement incroyable,” said the old postman. (more…)
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October 18, 2009
by paulcrask
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Enzo the baker drops a couple of dollars into the cash register and smiles. Spondulicks, his organic coffee and cake shop is doing well and seems to be a big hit with tourists passing through the village. So far every day has been a busy day, and he is happy that all his hard work is paying off.
But sadly, things are about to change. (more…)
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October 15, 2009
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Dating as far back as the early 1400s, Auerbach’s Keller is one of Leipzig’s oldest and most famous restaurants. Frequented by the student Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in the mid 18th century, much of its fame and notoriety is due to the writer’s love of the place and its inclusion in his celebrated play, Faust. He is said to have been inspired by the legend of the alchemist, Dr Johann Georg Faust, who once rode atop a wine barrel from the cellar of Auerbach’s Keller to the street – a feat, it is said, he could only have accomplished with the help of the devil himself. (more…)
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