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The weird hostel and Stahleck Castle Bacharach

Thursday, 12 Nov 2009 | Views [24]

Hello All, We didn't get going until 12pm which was our late checkout from the ibis. Wanted to get  our money worth. During that  time I had decided that I wanted to go to the Rhine river as it was reasonably close. Unfortunately ... Read more >


Heidelberg to Triberg the day from Hell

Thursday, 12 Nov 2009 | Views [22]

Hi All, We caught the train after our walk around the old town of Wursburg heading to Heidelberg. It takes a long time with the slower trains and we arrived to an average looking town. We had a few dramas with the storage lockers ... Read more >


Missing Mail Update

Wednesday, 11 Nov 2009 | Views [19]

Hi All, Finally after 3months and approximately 16,997km of travel,  numerous rounds of correspondence back and forth between Royal Mail ,Parcel Force and ourselves our box full of priceless items,broken soled scarpe leather hiking boots,spoons and ... Read more >


Wurzburg

Wednesday, 11 Nov 2009 | Views [14]

Hi All, We arrived in Wurzburg and located our hostel about 200m from the train station.It was a brand new hostel called babelfish which was filled with Ikea furniture ,a big dopey black pet dog,helpful staff and a book exchange so what more could ... Read more >


Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Wednesday, 11 Nov 2009 | Views [14]

Hello All, Today we boarded our train for Germany's best-preserved walled town.It was a long and at times arduous journey to Rothenburg ob der Tauber which required 3 changes of  train and  a bus to train but the journey was worth it as the town ... Read more >


Munich

Saturday, 7 Nov 2009 | Views [35]

Hi All, Another fitful nights sleep in our dorm.At one stage during the night it felt like we were under attack from our arch enemies the late night dorm invaders . Imagine this if you will.The first room invasion happened relatively early ... Read more >


Missing mail

Friday, 6 Nov 2009 | Views [40]

Hi All, We packed up a box with some items, including a hard drive with a backup of our travel images, to send to Australia just before leaving London. We used Royal Mail as we expected it to be a reliable and responsible company but the box has ... Read more >


Numerous days of travel in Germany rolled into one blog entry

Thursday, 5 Nov 2009 | Views [30]

Hi All, Rathaus (Rat House)- German for Town hall. Makes sense to me :-) Too many towns and not enough enthusiasm to write much so we will just give the order and a few comments to catch up with the blog. Hamburg We arrived from Berlin on the train ... Read more >


Potsdam

Wednesday, 28 Oct 2009 | Views [35]

Hi All, Some german from the hostel cheat sheet. 'Danke fur den ausritt in ihrem streifenwagen' - many thanks for the ride in your patrol car :-) Figured out why they have posters of David Hasselhoff at the hostel. He sung his hit song 'looking for ... Read more >


Berlin 2

Tuesday, 27 Oct 2009 | Views [33]

Hi All, 'Ich bin ein Berliner'. JFK famously said this but it turns out that the literal translation is 'I am a jelly donut' not the intended 'I am a Berliner'. Bugger. Something got lost in the translation but then politicians tend not to make much ... Read more >


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