Germany
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Thursday, 12 Nov 2009 | Views [3037] | Comments [1]
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 >
Thursday, 12 Nov 2009 | Views [2741]
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 >
Wednesday, 11 Nov 2009 | Views [692]
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 >
Wednesday, 11 Nov 2009 | Views [1093]
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 >
Wednesday, 11 Nov 2009 | Views [2740]
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 >
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Saturday, 7 Nov 2009 | Views [869]
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 ... Read more >
Friday, 6 Nov 2009 | Views [860]
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 >
Thursday, 5 Nov 2009 | Views [2454]
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 >
Saturday, 31 Oct 2009 | Photo Gallery
Saturday, 31 Oct 2009 | Photo Gallery
Thursday, 29 Oct 2009 | Photo Gallery
Wednesday, 28 Oct 2009 | Views [740]
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 >
Wednesday, 28 Oct 2009 | Photo Gallery
Wednesday, 28 Oct 2009 | Photo Gallery
Tuesday, 27 Oct 2009 | Views [849]
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 >
Monday, 26 Oct 2009 | Photo Gallery
Sunday, 25 Oct 2009 | Views [878]
Hi All, We had a plan...but it didn't work. We headed out from Luxemburg towards Germany. The plan was just to get a ticket over the border then purchase a german rail pass and then head to Berlin. Got across the border and found that there was nowhere ... Read more >
