Blogs from Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Bavaria, Germany, Europe - page 6

It had been a while since I had seen a new town. Since lots of my friends have moved to a new town for internship I thought I would start my visiting. A good friend named Lori moved to a town called Röttingen. It is a tiny town in northern Bavaria near the Romantic Street. It is about a 4-hour train ride to her town but I always enjoy a nice train ride through Germany. I left on Friday and Lori told me I would meet her host parents in Würzburg since her town doesn’t have a main train station. I got there and met her host mom who is actually the same age as us and they drove me to Röttingen. The village only has 2,000 people and it looks like a stereotypical quaint little ... read more

"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas..." for more on this little town ... read more

Well, I owe my good mood and good spirits to Kyle, Jason and Thea :) Thanks guys! Without their messages and support I'd probably still be the lonely sack of American I was the first two weeks I was here. Well, I still don't have any friends, but I'm getting to be ok with that. It's nice to have "me" time and not have to worry about catering to other people all the time. I get up and have brekky, sometimes I walk around the town a little bit or go to lessons, and have lunch.. sometimes I do my own German lessons.... jump on the computer...watch at least an hour of German TV (although I did find a French channel, lol) a day... open the lounge and do it all over again! The hotel owner's ... read more

Just a little play on words there... Bad is in relation to baths over here. If you hear of Bad Hamburg or Bad Kissingen (hate to live there! lol) it is because it is a place that has bath houses and stuff! Interesting, huh? But yesterday it was decided that the hotel needed a deep purge of a lot of the dust that had built up because apparently the maids don't do an excessive amount of work. So Pieter whips out this special vacuums that have special filters and are much better at getting up all the dust. So the plan was we were going to do the first and second floor in the day and be done with it. Little did we know that the dust had built up so bad that we had -quite- ... read more

Well hello! After an extensive gap, I'm back to relate more of my travels! Here's an update! After I finished Uni in Australia, I came back and graduated from my beautiful Maryville College (which I heartily miss!). As a graduation present to myself, I took myself over to Europe for a little over a month! I saw Scotland, England, Ireland, Wales, France, Luxembourg, Germany, Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands. It was wonderful! Top two cities were probably Scotland and Berlin for beauty and history and the good times I had there. After a year of internships and working hard I was offered a job at the beautiful Goldener Hirsch hotel in Rothenburg ob der Tauber in the Tauber Valley of the Castle District of Bavaria in Germany by a friend I met while studying in Australia. ... read more