Blogs from Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany, Europe - page 25

Today we leave beautiful, sunny Oakland, California, for our long flight from San Francisco International to Frankfurt, Germany. A little about us: We live in a mid-rise condominium building called The Sierra at Jack London Square. I work for the Oakland Police Department doing crime statistics, my partner - who does not want me to use his name - works for a large health care provider. We have made several trips together in the United States and one to Mexico, but this is our first time to go to Europe together. Here are a couple of photos of our life in Oakland:... read more

Hey!!!!! I'm near Frankfurt rigtht now, we have a beautiful view!!!!!! The other Americans are really nice, but I don't know why I feel....mmmm....kind of weird ......yesterday I got a little bit drepress , but I'm not home-sick yet..I don't know, it was a weird feeling...all I wanted to do was listen to music in Spanish and look at the beautiful montains from the school's balcony. I'm actually having a really good time, I really don't know why I got like that. Well, anyway, moving on...we are living in small apartments which are right next the school like 'side by side'. There's 6 people per apartment, plus our teamer, who takes care of us, so that we don't burn the house!!!And there's 2 people püer room. My roommate is from ....ups...I forgot...I think she's from D.C ... read more

So for once we'ver slowed our trip down a little bit. The lazy train ride to Frankfort gave us pleny of time to relax and write another 10 pages in our journals. Then last night we went to Mainz's (a city outside Frankfort) "old town" for a nice dinner at a German place. Then we booked our train reservations to/from Paris and our hostel there as well. We don't really know where the hostel is but have a hand scribbled map that I'm sure will get us there no problem ... nooo problem. I sit now in a 100 degree internet cafe sipping a delicious Paulaner Hefe-weizen. It's 9:15 Thursday evening and we've been just killing time walking around the city and napping by the river since 4. It's the first time I really felt like ... read more

The germany trains are a vast improvement over the Czech. Fast, clean and quiet. We got to Franfurt about 8 pm and once we figured out the subway system and how to buy tickets got to the hotel with no problems even though the city is big. It amazing how excited we get about a hotel room with towels, a tv that works and an elevator. We´re also not on the top floor tonight, which doesn´t make any difference if there is a lift, but we always seem to get the room on the top floor when there isn´t!! I went exploring...as usual E is a stick-in-the-mud and is "exhausted" and just wants to stay in the room. I´m only going to be here once, & I´m not missing out on anything. Won´t really get to ... read more