Blogs from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Hello er’body! :) I feel like the only appropriate way to start this blog is to say how much I love Germany. Every time I go there I have the best time! It could be because when I go there I its Christmas, or New Year’s, or I’m 10 years old; I get to eat home cooked meals, be with really fun people and go to weddings. It could be because of all of those things, but I think it’s just Germany and all the people in it. My latest German adventure was Jana and Andreas’ wedding! You may remember them from back in January when I got to spend about it week with them in Düsseldorf over New Years. Jana lived with our family for five months in 2000 while she was doing her year ... read more

Hi, so this blog's gonna be about my travel through Europe. I will travel with a friend of mine - Pascal through Germany, Czech Republick, Austria, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Morocco and the whole way back : ) I am really excited about that, because I "planned" this trip for about 9 months and now, finally after my A-Levels I have a lot of time to reach all the goals I want to reach in my life. Generally, if there will be some other interesting things I want to share with you, I will do this. And this is quite possible, because I will travel to Perugia with Nina (perhaps) and hopefully there will be much more exciting things to write about :) Additionaly, sorry for my english : P... read more

Hello my dears It's a rainy day here and so I will have a bit of a rest from sightseeing. I am staying with a very nice couple ( Hospitality exchange again) in Emmerich on the Rhein - and you an see Holland from here. One wonders about our penchant for border security in the UK when here you are flashing about on motorways from France to Belgium to Holland and Germany - never stopping for pasports or customs- only a cctv camera to catch you. We certainly seem to have put up the drawbridge compared to the rest of Europe. So leaving the White Cliffs of Dover on Sunday morning the sun was shining and the sea was calm ( goody no Kwells this time) I arrived in Dunkerque 2 hours later. Ferries to France ... read more

...and the misadventures continue! Yesterday was a giant misadventure - I was planning to visit the windmills at Kinderdijk park (one of UNESCOs World Heritage Sites). There are a few different ways to get there, and I picked the one that sounded the easiest - train from Nijmegen to Utrecht, then bus from Utrecht to Kinderdijk. After waiting for the bus at Utrecht for 1.5 hours, I finally admitted defeat and went back to Nijmegen. Today was much better! Sarah joined my adventure to Cologne (aka Köln in German), and we only had one misadventure all day. To get to/from Cologne, we had to transfer trains 2x (once in Venlo and once in Dusseldorf ). Unfortunately, we didn't realize our train was at the first transfer...until it left without us. But, in our defense, the train ... read more

Day 1 Hurry up and wait. We catch up with our hero on the flying automobile. I cant be sure but it seems to be part bird, part machine, but mostly magic. The men with beards seem to trust it, and it's always easy to trust a man with a beard. Will our hero do the same? Only time will tell. Excitement and anxiousness bubble from within, dying to take over his thoughts and expressions. But our hero cannot let it show, he is a man now willing to give his money to anyone willing to take it. So he waits. Finger tapping on a machine that is willing to turn his thoughts into words and expressions, how it works, no one can be sure, more magic I suppose. Our hero is on a quest of ... read more

Hello again! I am finally getting caught up! I figured I better get on top of things before I head to Kassel because I know there will be so much to say about seeing Karl and Ilse! First though, is life with Anna! I stayed with her and her Dad and I got really lucky that I got to catch her right before she left to go back to Freiburg for school. She goes to medical school there, she actually used to go to school in Hungary (and took classes in Hungarian) but transferred back to Germany just a couple years ago. When I got to her house and she brought me to her room I was greeted by the pillow I made for her when she arrived in the US. I used to be so ... read more