Blogs from Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Europe - page 12

It's Saturday, May 6, and I'm sitting in an internet cafe in Ulm, Germany. My friend Jim is at another swap meet (mostly old cars and antiques) while I'm on my own for a few hours in this city between Stuttgart and Munich (Southern Germany). It's good to be getting another update in. It's way overdue. What have I been up to since my last update? Let me tell you. Well, let me try to tell you (at least to the extent that my memory doesn't fail me and time permits). In my last update, I was in Hannover, Germany (Northern German city). Jim and I left Hannover on Monday evening (May 1), and drove to Wiedenbruck, a small quaint town to the southwest of Hannover. The town center had the typical curving narrow cobblestone streets ... read more

We took a trip to Frankfurt with AJY on Thursday last week. It was pretty cool, but again super super cold which made it a little less fun. We went to Goethe's House, a big german writer (sometimes compared to shakespeare). It was a pretty cool place, but the tour took a really long time and it went into our lunch break so we were all pretty hungry. After lunch we went to the Kaiser Museum where Herr Dörr (one of the teachers at ajy) talked about the kaisers and history stuff. Then we went to Paulskirche. It was a beautiful catholic church. Some people took pictures, but I felt wierd taking pictures in a catholic church so i didnt. After the church we had like 35 minutes free time. We (Phill, Kelly, Katy, Katie, and ... read more

katy, phill, and kelly came to my room for dinner. katy and phill go to carthage college in wisconsin and kelly goes to the university of pittsburgh. katy lives on Ringstrasse which is a 15 minute bus ride or so, maybe a little less. phill lives in jagerhaus which is in the altstadt (old city) where i live. kelly lives in europahaus III which is down the road from me on plöck (thats my street). we decided to have a rotation of dinners at each others house to save money, speak german, and hang out. we also are planning on traveling together. in the neckar region where we live and who knows where else.... read more

so the flight was super long, almost eight hours and i didnt sleep very well. maybe like an hour, which is sometimes normal for me, but plane sleep is definitely not good sleep. check this map out. its where i flew.... read more

26th December - Boxing Day! We left Paris today by train and headed to Bruchsal in Germany to meet up with Stephanie (a beautiful girl who I worked with at Perth Zoo), however due to technology and a mis-punch in the telephone number we hadn't quite made contact with each other when we arrrived so a night in one of the only two hotels in this little snow capped village was the go!.. although i think because we were non-German and late arrivals we got special hiked up prices along with an early check out and no breakfast.. oh well, it was good to be spoilt for one night. 27th December Snow had fallen over night and it was beautiful and everywhere! Everything just looked so clean and the while it was covering the village Christmas ... read more