I haven't heard about a game called "Jass" but I do know cards with "Eichel"n, they are common in Bavaria. The other ones are "Schellen", "Herz" and "Gras". In Bavaria "Watten" and particularly "Schafkopf" are played with them.
aha, so you don't have the 4 colours like the French cards ? hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs ?
You have four colors, but they look different. I guess you can substitute them though - heart is Herz, spade Gras, diamond maybe Schellen and club Eichel (or vice versa?
)and our first section in this book is PL ok. Caesar showing himself as the great strategist again. It was so strange hearing the new disclaimer title of the book for the first time. Now I got used so much to Russia, Austria-Hungary etcneecheelok70 wrote: ↑April 13th, 2019, 5:18 pm Here is Section 4:
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I'm sure I will record it wrongly the first time I do my new section.
I love alliteration, so thank you for that already
also thanks for these three wonderfully narrated and interesting sections. All three PL ok. I highly enjoyed the accent you gave the French tourist guide
nice touch to make it all lively. And wow the castle was meticulously described. It's been many years since I last saw it but I vividly could remember the places again that were described there. 
super, thank you, Foon. Wow this escape of de Groot was really spectacular. And if the guards constantly asked themselves whether a man was inside, I think the obvious thing would have been to check
They were not doing their job properly. I'm surprised Mrs de Groot simply was able to leave after this trick.indeed beautiful. I think that's a spot I might want to visit on a short weekend trip.Slot Loevestein, where this takes places, is still a beautiful fortress! With it's double moat and being surrounded by two rivers, I do get why the Netherlands has gotten a reputation for being quite a wet country!
interesting tidbit, thanks. So "only" the head of state or also their spouse inside the chariot ?Fun fact, the golden chariot that is mentioned in this section is still in use. It is only allowed to be used by a head of state (with 8 horses spanned before it!), or by the heir to the throne (with a maximum of 6 horses). Every year, on the third Tuesday of September, the head of state uses it to ride to the place where they deliver their speech from the throne.
Thanks Rob and Stoofy !SoniaRobMarland wrote:I am not going home for Easter, but it might be possible I can do it over skype (I can get someone to record him on a decent digital recorder in the room).
This would be over the Easter weekend, so if you sign Stoofy up and we don't manage to do it, you could release the role next week.
You're absolutely right! I replaced the image with just the link. I just love all the forts we have spread out through the whole middle of the country, our historical "defense line", and just wanted to share the loveKitty wrote: ↑April 15th, 2019, 7:19 am Thanks for the pic, but please, we try not to overburden our server and the uploading of our pages too much, so we ask for links to images instead of the pictures themselves to show up here. This one picture won't do any harm, but if too many are on one page, it may be long loading-time for slower connections.
Nah they can travel with their spouse, and also other members of the royal family I believe (for example, the King's mother, our previous queen), as long as the head of state is with them. But they can't travel in it unless he's with them!interesting tidbit, thanks. So "only" the head of state or also their spouse inside the chariot ?Fun fact, the golden chariot that is mentioned in this section is still in use. It is only allowed to be used by a head of state (with 8 horses spanned before it!), or by the heir to the throne (with a maximum of 6 horses). Every year, on the third Tuesday of September, the head of state uses it to ride to the place where they deliver their speech from the throne.
what kind of a hat was that !!!!