Blogs from Germany, Europe - page 655

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Not actually a whole lot to report today actually, unless anyone is interested in the details of a very long and unexciting train ride between Prague and Berlin! We had breakfast early on and left the hotel at half past nine to get the subway to Holesovice...which I have to say is the worst major train station I have ever been to. I know it isn't Prague's main train station, but for a city that is used by interrailers as much as this is, they really need to think about sorting it out. It's basically an underground cave, and about as organised as Newcastle United during the transfer window. Platform announcements aren't made until roughly thirty seconds before the train is due, and with nowhere to sit, there is nothing to do but crowd together under ... read more

Somehow, around 2 in the morning, I'm in a Brazilian bar in Frankfurt, Germany with a bunch of guys from Ireland and Philadelphia. How the hell did this happen??.... After being on study tour for 2 weeks with St. Joe's, some of us decided to hang around in Europe for a little bit longer. Most of the group went out skiing in Austria, another went to Spain, and I went to London to visit a friend of mine (see very first blog entry!) One of the caveats of staying extra was that since we flew Luftansa over to Germany to begin our trip, we had to fly Luftansa back to the U.S. out of Frankfurt when we returned. Everyone was ok with this, but we all decided collectively as a group that we would all return ... read more

I think that filling everyone in on today's events would be prudent as I am without any doubt that there will be plenty to share from our impending trip to Lübeck. So, here goes... Today was the las day of school for the students of Hanhoopsfeld. As such, the students were a bit excited and ready to get out of there. This being said, they were engaged and interested as our brilliant students presented their PowerPoint presentations. Presentations on American sports and Halloween were amazing! From there, Heidi and I took our kids to our favorite local Gellateria for some eis. The group of students proceeded from there to downtown Harburg for tooth piercing and a bit of light shopping. Heidi and I had to go back and attend the teachers buffet in honor of the ... read more

Sorry I got cut off...anyway, the haufbrauhaus was even better than we expected...an oooompah band played hits all night and the halls were filled with drunken americans and japanese tourist groups (honestly, the bathrooms here smelled worse than any other that we have utilized). The next morning, we got up at around 9am to the sound of pouring rain (the area outside of the tent was complete mud) and headed out to our hostel, just around the corner from the main train station. Here we met up with our boy Rich (a ruffian university of Wisconsin grad student that we met up with in Prague who is basically on the same course as us)...we then boarded the two hour train to Fussen, a town southwest of Munich, in order to check out the famous Neuswanstein castle. ... read more