Blogs from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe - page 20

Die letzte Woche in Deutschland hat jetzt angefangen. Und jetzt kommt auch langsam die Aufregung. Wird alles so funktionieren wie erhofft? War es die richtige Entscheidung? Habe ich an alles gedacht? Die letzten Tage verabschiedet man sich schon von den ersten Leuten mit den Worten: "Man sieht sich dann irgendwann nächstes Jahr". Schon ein seltsames Gefühl. Heute wird der Rucksack komplett fertig gepackt. Wenn man sich so anschaut, dass die Sachen für ein ganzes Jahr reichen werden müssen ist das schon knapp bemessen. Da ist ja der Reisekoffer für einen Wochenendtrip teilweise größer und umfangreicher gewesen :-) In den großen 65 Liter Rucksack kommen die folgenden Sachen rein: 2 x Trekkinghose 1 x kurze Hose 5 x Boxer Shorts 5 x Socken 5 x T-Shirts 2 x Funktions-Shirts 1 x Läufer Jacke 1 x Lauf-Langarmshirt 1 ... read more

“How far north can you get us today?” This was the question I asked the woman in the bus ticket booth in Split. At 8.30am she was clearly not a morning person. She responded directly, asking exactly where I wanted to go. She clearly did not share our random sense of adventure as we took a chance to see where we might end up. After our boat ride to the mainland which had involved a beautiful sun rise over the Adriatic we arrived in Split. After much deliberation we had decided that Croatia was just too sapping of a small budget for our adventures ad we would head to the bus station and just see exactly where we might end up if we headed north, and closer to our final destination; Amsterdam. Eventually the joyful ticket ... read more

Woke up late to a lovely sunny hot morning.. no driving needed so we could relax and do some serious sight seeing!! Sam had already decided he wanted to go to the Chocolate museum and I wanted to visit the cathedral. Neither were disappointing. Had a lovely walk along the Rhine and stopped for a coffee and some people watching too. The chocolate museam is a great place for kids - it gives the history of chocolate coming to Europe as well as a factory to see the various stages of making chocolates. The taste from the chocolate fountain was good and the whole place smelt lovely. Hotel is OK - only about 20 minutes from the city so we have walked for miles today. Both exhausted and are now chilling in the hotel. For tomorrow's ... read more

Hello All, We took advantage of our beautiful sunny Monday, and we explored the Rhine in the other direction: up stream toward the south. Bonn has these great bike trails along the Rhine and we had taken them several times north to the center of town. We decided to take the bikes on one of the ferries one way south and then ride them back, I think it was even my idea. We bought passage from Bad Goddesberg (Near Margies Home) to Lindt for 17,80 € for the both of us and the bikes first thinking the wind would be at our backs when returning. The trip was beautiful on the large ferry and they had no problem putting our bikes on board. The cruise up was great, but I ended up paying 6.2 € for ... read more

We have recovered from the adventures in Prague and Munich; the quiet home along the Rhine is good for that. We went to the grocery store and spent € 38 on fruits and veggies, bread, beer, and a bottle of wine. We also go some hamburger as that is something we really miss. Ok, we got some ice cream bars too. We have vowed to not go to any American fast food places, like the ubiquitous Mickey D, but we still had a taste for hamburgers. And, it turned out good. We have been getting a lot of rain, today we went to Bonn to buy our tickets to Amsterdam for Wednesday morning, and got drenched. Attached is a picture of Linda outside the Starbucks in the Bonn Zentrum square. So, it is off again to ... read more