Blogs from Germany, Europe - page 680

Now in front of the computer, more than three years later, we remember it as it had happened yesterday, both of us super exited meeting in the airport in Frankfurt. It had been more than 2 years since we'd seen each other. Four weeks before we had contacted each other and agreed to do a backpacker trip around Europe for a month. Fernando wanted a break from his agricultural job in Brazil and wanted to stay away for a while. Claudio, after working almost one year on a project in US, finally had the chance to take his vacation. The trip plan was super detailed, Claudio organized train schedules, bought Europass tickets, reserved hotels. Each second of the trip was carefully allocated to activities. Fernando took a plane to Switzerland a few days before to visit ... read more

Hello to all. Mark and I are in Dusseldorf now waiting for our flight to depart for Bangkok. We cannot believe how quickly the time has passed in the past month. We said goodbye to Grant yesterday in Rome after having an incredible month travelling around Europe. In the days before he left, we went to Florence and wanted to visit the Duomo, but with our luck it was Sunday and it was closed. However, we were able to see the David which is really something. It is mind boggling to think about how someone could carve that from one solid piece of stone. We then caught a late train to Rome and crashed after a very long day from travelling from Croatia. The next morning we got up and saw everything there is to see ... read more

A Tale Of Two Germany’s Like any classic fairytale Germany’s story includes hero’s, dark villains, dramatic scenery and a hopeful ending. It is a land of majestic castles surrounded by enchanted forests and quaint villages. A story that also includes mad kings, bleak times and sinister rulers. Before we get too poetic or educational on you, we just want to add…WE LOVE GERMANY (we may have been influenced by the large portions of the best food we’ve had in Europe. A great example of one of Germany’s charming villages is Garmisch. We wanted to be sure to visit it for sentimental reasons. Back in the dark ages, the US government gave J’s family a free trip to Germany. Well, okay… the Army had a few strings attached. J’s dad was stationed in Germany for 3 years. ... read more

Today I left Marburg. After a short stop in Limburg to leave some stuff I didn't want to take I went to visit Denis in Heidelberg. I did so spontaneously and it was realnice with Denis and and his friends. ... read more

So… about that storm of homework… 3 big projects, 2 little weeks and the computer is not being cooperative. My big design project, the one I’m designing with the product design department and in cooperation with Melitta, has a final design, at long last, and in order to have a final model to show off, our teacher, Herr Kampe, arranged a pretty sweet deal with a modellbau (a workshop) that’s in Nürnberg (about an hour south of here). So, along came Saturday the 23rd and I carpooled down to the place with a few other students to jump into model making. I was totally flying by the seat of my pants, because I had no idea how I was even going to begin with this thing… it was supposed to turn out as a rubber placemat ... read more

Hello everybody!!!! We are in frankfurt and we like the city!!!! Very nice and Lina is really happy as they have starbucks coffee!!!! Our hotel is nice and cheap including breakfast (18 euros a night) Prag was horrible!!!! At least at the train station. Everybody was rude and because of their incompetence we missed our train to fankfurt and had to take another one. It was really horrible. The trip from krakow to prag wasn't that great either. But good thing is we met a german boy (17 years old but looked like 15) who had overslept on the train and ended up in prag with no money. So we had a few laughs with him. Going to paris tomorrow for four nights. booked a hotel for 22 euros a night walking distance from Moulin Rouge! ... read more