(Ah, another piece I could add ! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" /> )
The Lorelei is actually a rock / platform high above Germany's (I guess) best-known river, the Rhein (is it Rhine in English ?).
The Lorelei was - according to myth - a lady who was sitting there, over the Rhein and combing her long, blonde hair - thus making the people going by ship on the river to be confused by her - so that they crashed into the stones / rocks that wre then in the river (at this site) (they are rmoved now, but were there). So the Lorelei is a myth connected to the river. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
I've bern there; there is quite a big area behind the platform where they also perform concerts. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
The German "ei" is normally spoken like the English letter "i". "Ei" also means "egg" in Grman, leading to interesting results - like "I the Ei". <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />