Blogs from Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany, Europe - page 5

Germany:(Frankfurt, Neu-Isenburg, Pfungstadt, Stuttgart, Munich) So im here sitting at this computer starting a blog to give you updates and information about my travelling. So how did it start? Well, i just started in Frankfurt just pickin up my stuff getting ready and left my everything and started walking. After a few hours later of walking in the woods, i landed in the nice Neu Isenburg at a friends house i have not seen for a very long time. I just stayed there to have once more a good time before leaving, The next day after sleeping at my friends house, i started walking south gen darmstadt, got me some ponchos to prevent damage by rain. Did help though and when i reached Langen, a guy picked me up and drove me to Darmstadt something like ... read more

Endlich: der Plan steht. Sieben Tage durch englische Gärten. Genau in der Zeit der Rosenblüte. Die Vorfreude ist groß. Die Flüge sind frühzeitig gebucht, kein Problem. Aber dann. Die einfache Buchung eines Mietwagens von und nach Birmingham wird zur Höllenqual. Nach endlosen Versuchen mit sehr hohen Tarifen wird endlich auf der deutschen Hertz Seite ein recht günstiger Preis gefunden. Komischerweise ist er auf der deutschen Website viel günstiger als zeitgleich auf der englischen oder der globalen. Irgendwie scheint sich der Hertz Computer darüber auch zu wundern. Nachdem alle Daten eingegeben und der richtige Preis immer noch angezeigt wird, kommt zum Schluss eine Bestätigung zum weit höheren englischen Preis. Über den Link auf der zeitgleich einlaufenden eMail-Bestätigung versuche ich, den Grund zu finden. Nun ist nicht nur der Preis meiner Buchung ein noch anderer (höherer ... read more

After disembarking, we cleared Immigration in record time as there was no queue at all when we arrived at the booths. Maybe most of the people on our flight were in the EU queue?? Whatever the reason, we are not complaining about making it through Immigration so quickly. From Immigration to the baggage carousel just in time to haul our bags of the belt - sweet. And then it was straight out the green 'Nothing to Declare' channel as we cleared Customs. There were no Customs staff anywhere to be seen?! We then took the SkyTrain from Terminal 2 to Terminal 1 to catch the train into the city. With our Frankfurt Cards already purchased we were able to proceed straight to the platform to catch our train. After checking with a local, we established ... read more

Friday night and Saturday 22nd We made our way to Changi Airport in a very rickety Toyota Crown taxi that sort of squirmed sideways when the driver tried to move off from standing and it certainly did not appreciate the 2 heavy suitcases and 2 carry-ons in the boot. It was very disconcerting to think that the driver was quite happy to be hurtling down the freeway in peak hour traffic at 110 kph seemingly without a worry in the world (we made up for that!). We were there at 6.00pm for our flight at (scheduled)11.30 pm, and of course you know it didn’t leave on time. With such a start to the next part of our journey we should have known that things would only go down from there… No upgrade!!! No understanding of the ... read more

After 30 minutes delay leaving London and a further 30 minutes in a holding pattern over Frankfurt, we finally arrived in Germany. Going through immigration was a breeze as was Customs as none of the booths were manned so it was a walk through! We picked up up our camper from McRent and we are not impressed. It is NOT the internal configuration we choose and we couldn't change it. It is really small inside but we will just have to make do. Their comeback was that it is brand new, we are the first to use it.... so what, We need the space! We entered the Street address of the supermarket into our trusty friend Tomtom GPS and off we went. Very stressful for Mark driving a left hand vehicle on the wrong side of ... read more