Early Saturday morning Georg was the first hungry guest in the breakfast-lounge. "It's O.K. for me," he said to himself with a smile, "nobody can take notice of my extreme behaviour at the breakfast-table." Just like a little boy he arranged everything around his tea cup filled with black tea and milk. On his left side he found sweet Barm Brack arranged; in front of him his medicine (black, red and white pills), to his right there was black and white pudding. After breakfast he went back to his room and read the newspaper. Later on he went to the information desk to meet the others. "High friends" he welcomed Heiner Meier and Tom. They stood behind the information desk and laughed about a joke they listened last night in a Pub. Jenny Herz was sitting in a comfortable armchair and red the Irish Newspaper. Gerda was on the way to a Museum. "Please listen, could we do anything together?" he asked around. But a negation was the reaction. "No, thanks, we worked out our own program in the morning, but why shouldn't we have a meeting near Dublin Castle early noon? Is there anybody who knows the opening hours today?", Georg asked around and the Hotelboy gave him a map with all informations. He looked around and informed the others: "On Saturday it's open from 14-17.00 o'clock. Let's have a meeting at 2 o'clock in front of the entrance." Georg went down the street and took a taxi directly to St. Stephens's Green. He paid the bill for the taxi with a bank note and got some coins back and put them into a map and not in his purse. He went to a banch in the middle of the two lakes, sat down and enjoyed the sun. A few moments later he took his purse out of the rucksack and put inside the coins. Suddenly he saw a foreign coin between the other coins. He put this coin into his hand: On one side he saw a castle (maybe the Dublin or Liffy Castle?) and on the other side there was written:"Once upon a time."Wow", Georg sad to himself, "what is going on in Dublin? As I know from the Irish sayings I should put some milk into a bowl and put it out in front of the window for the "Daoine sidhe", the good people, for the Irish ghosts and the cats would like it." Although the atmosphere was fine; he felt a bit strange because of the mysterious coin."I should talk about it with Barbara, "he thought by himself. He hoped to meet her group soon." From a distance he could see the group. From his watch he could see that they arrived intime. Together they walked to Dublin/Liffy Castle and in front of the house some of the group members were standing loudly speaking. When they saw Georg and the lady the group spoke to them:"Prof. Müller, what a big surprise: We all got or found the same coin during our sight seeing tour today." Georg was a bit frightened to hear about it: Is this a dream or is it reality and suddenly his face colour turned into white. "No, it cannot be true! I too got the same coin. But they don't have to know about it - I am not drunk, it is true!" he thought by himself. "We all have the same coin" they told him. Late night in a Pub Georg
met Mary (Fulda) and Barbara (Cologne) and he asked the Ladies:
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