I'm a travelin' kinda gal. Maybe it's because I am a Gemini, and I get restless and can't settle down (see: multiple failed relationships) but I'd like to think that it's because I've got a slightly romantic spirit and like to go exploring and imagining.
Example: When I was 19, I went to England for three weeks. It was for some Summer Extension Course for College, and I actually studied at Cambridge. (American Parents, take note: your 19-year-old kids are not worthy of studying at Cambridge University; it's way too grown-up for them. It sure as heck was for me!) While I spent not enough time enshrining myself in academia, I certainly did do a lot of exploring. One weekend I ended up in Northern Wales, in the Snowdon Mountains, in a little village called Betws-y-coed (no, I can't pronounce it, and I bet you can't, either). Walking from the village to my bed-and-breakfast (a 19th century vicarage), it was grey and cloudy and drizzly and cold, and there was mist shrouding the tree-lined mountains looming overhead. As I walked, I saw a tiny golden light twinkling through the trees, 'way up high on the mountain. To this day, I fancy that it was a druid ghost, wandering about through the mists.
The Black Forest of Bavaria has always appealed to me; there's something very romantic, very mystical about it...it probably has something to do with all the fairy tales that originate from that region. Anyway. For a long time, I've really wanted to visit there...until tonight. Tonight I found out that in the Black Forest resides lumbricus badensis.
What is that, you might wonder? Well might you ask! It's a giant frigging earthworm.
That's right, the romantic Black Forest that I've always daydreamed about is home to a giant mutant earthworm of doom which can grow up to two feet in length! You can keep your damned trees and clocks and cake, Black Forest, 'cause there ain't nothin' romantic about an earthworm that can double as an implement of strangulation. If that's how big the earthworms are, I'd hate to see how big the fish they bait are!
Welcome to the Black Forest! We don't need any horses, just saddle up that there worm.
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