Blogs from Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany, Europe

Am letzten Samstag bin ich nach Wiesbaden gefahren. Dort bin war ich mit dem Auto schon einmal kurz Anfang der 2000er Jahre ohne allerdings auszusteigen. An diesem Tag wollte ich eigentlich um 15:00 an der Führung durch den Hessischen Landtag im Stadtschloss teilnehmen, aber leider fiel diese wegen Umbauarbeiten aus. Statt dessen war ich im Starbucks und habe danach einen Spaziergang durch die Innenstadt mit Schlossplatz und Kurpark gemacht. Am Ende habe ich noch in der Lebensmittelabteilung von Karstadt eingekauft und bin wieder in meine Zweitwohnung bei Frankfurt zurück gekehrt.... read more

We arrived home last Thursday evening 12th September. We decided not to stay in Frankfurt but in a town about a 40 minute train trip from Frankfurt. Wiesbaden, the capital of Hesse is a hot springs town with no less than 26 hot springs. We spent the last 4 nights of our holiday here and did some limited sight seeing. We stayed in 2 hotels and they both had a pool sourced by hot springs water - very warm and supposedly containing beneficial minerals. We witnessed a demonstration and a march against the expansion of Frankfurt Airport. Mostly people living in areas over which the planes fly with associated noise pollution. I spoke to some marchers and they said that they are already subjected to noise from overhead planes and they do not want more air ... read more

Geo: 50.0841, 8.23838Stadtbummel MIT Sina... read more

I have never written a blog or diary of any sort, so this is kind of weird for me, but I am going to attempt it so that my family and close friends can follow me and see what I'm doing and I will also have this to look bag on and remember. I am writing this quickly and off of my memory so please dont just me too much if it sounds like a 3rd grader wrote it. I have been in Ingelheim, Germany staying with a close friend of mine named Simon Ballman that I studied with in Salamanca, for a week and a half. So im getting a late start on this, but i guess its better now than never. So I finished up my last week in Statesboro with a bang, it ... read more

After a rather non-eventful flight from LGA (via Montreal), I arrived in Frankfurt at 9 am local time (3 am EST) Friday morning. I was met by beautiful weather and my friend Paul. Paul is a British gentleman I met in New Zealand last year (Jan '06) when we were both walking the Routeburn Track on the South Island. Funny enough, I haven't seen him since but he was gracious enough to offer to host me for a long weekend. I had not expected he would organize such an amazing weekend, but the itinerary went something like this: 1) Friday - driving/walking tour of Weisbaden (where he lives) and then a driving tour of the River Rhine area. Lucky for me, Paul also likes convertible sports cars so we got to tour in his Lotus and ... read more