Just wanted to say hi..!

[Florida Bowler]

Welcome to the boards Rich!

[TheSheibs]

Welcome to the board. I have family that live in Germany and are part of the Kiel Symphony Orchestra. Not sure what town they live in but my Uncle(dad's brother) has lived there since before I was born. A brass quartet that he was a member of is what brought him to Germany in the first place.

[Risclab]

@backahead Wow thats quite a good coincidence. Well too bad I was decommissioned
- dont know if its the right word. The German Armed Force didnt want me
@Hampe I live in Bonn. But anyway I grew up in Switzerland. Mostly in Bern and lived until 97 in Zurich/Affolter a.A
hehe so we could talk to each other in swiss german
@TheSheibs Thank you. Quite surprised so many german connection here I like Kiel and the orchestra is pretty famous around here.

[Hampe]

@Hampe I live in Bonn. But anyway I grew up in Switzerland. Mostly in Bern and lived until 97 in Zurich/Affolter a.A hehe so we could talk to each other in swiss german

Haha....only if you don't have a berner dialekt! I hate that dialect! I'm actually from the States but I've been here 12 years so I can speak swiss german fairly well. (I even prefer it to high German....less strict with the grammar).

Is Bowling big in Bonn? I play in a Firmen/Betriebs-sport Städteturnier every year with teams from Hamburg, Bremen, Frankfurt, Berlin, and Vienna (and Basel obviously ). There is also tournaments in Münich and Mannheim that teams here go to (just recently, actually), and there are some tournaments here that those teams come to. I don't think I've met any teams from Bonn yet though .

[Risclab]

Hehe no with me its more like of dialect from zurich. I went there because my father worked in Bern/Zurich.
However back then the locals didn't liked it when somebody from a foreign country was beginning to talk their dialect.
Do you feel that?

Well Bowling in Bonn is pretty poor. I men there are like 2 bowlingcenters thats it. So when Im playing league we usually
need to travel about 100-120km to our opponents...

[Hampe]

Hehe no with me its more like of dialect from zurich. I went there because my father worked in Bern/Zurich.
However back then the locals didn't liked it when somebody from a foreign country was beginning to talk their dialect.
Do you feel that?

Actually no, I kind of get the opposite. I wonder if it has to do with being from the states....Swiss people are not used to seeing an Ami that can speak swiss german, so they are usually pretty impressed.

Well Bowling in Bonn is pretty poor. I men there are like 2 bowlingcenters thats it. So when Im playing league we usually need to travel about 100-120km to our opponents...

Wow....that's crazy. We only have two centers here also, but there are a lot of local bowlers. There are about 35-38 Firmensport teams, and maybe 9-10 teams in the friday night league (although the friday league teams are 90% Firmensport players).