Celebrating 2010

New Year's Eve in Freiburg

Some folks in my old home town really took it all the way with the fire crackers this year.

Next to Martinstor, Mekong Vietnamese Restaurant staff pushed the envelope with their fire cracker display December 31st 2009. Enjoy the show (part 1 - part 2). Actually my iPhone microphone gave out in the 2nd part.

SC Freiburg

They made it!

SC Freiburg finally did it this year and moved up to the German Soccer Bundesliga (highest league in the country) after closest runner-up for the past two years.

The whole city is sizzling with joy these days as "our boys" did it after many years absence from the highest league in Germany. As a side-note: this promotion also marked the first time ever that a second league champion was given the Champion's Cup 2nd Bundesleague.

The team celebrated the promotion with specially made t-shirts stating "Wir sind dann mal oben!" or: "We're gonne be up there then!". This season they will be playing the likes of Bayern Munchen, Werder Bremen, VfB Stuttgart and Borussia Dortmund then.

See a couple of great photos of the celebration below and find tickets at their web site here.

 

   

 

Freiburg Video Clip

Clip about Freiburg

I just found this great movie clip about my hometown. I have been living here for several years and can't get enough of it to be honest.

Freiburg is a perfect city as it combines great outdoors, closeness to the Black Forrest, a very lively city life, a grea soccer team (SC Freiburg) and night life atmosphere (impact by tens of thousands of students is felt), perfect infrastructure, a green government and university that pushes green technologies, really good schools and so much more.

Enjoy the video here (Flash player needed). Original site (multi-language versions of the movie available): Freiburg.de.