Blogs from Hesse, Germany, Europe - page 6

Geo: 50.0924, 8.68195Actually had a good nights sleep for once, but still woke up at 4.12am. So checked Facebook, emails, same old office stuff!! About 6.30, woke Clint and then once again, jumped out of bed for showers and breakfast. We got to the breakfast room and there was so many people there and we had to wait for a table. A lady made room for us at her table and we sat down and got breakfast. We got ready to go to the trade fair, and then we walked to the tram stop across the road to catch the No 16 tram to the fair. We travelled 4 stops then half the people on the tram got off!! Clint raced to the line up, so excited he was actually here! Today, Nikki was experiencing her ... read more

First stop in Germany. Our one and only love lock left on our journeys in Europe.... read more

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo - Al Gore Greetings from Frankfurt! We are in the Goethe bar enjoying a Paulaner Hefeweizen before our flight to Cairo. The flight from Vancouver was uneventful, as you want air travel to be. It was fairly pleasant in my window seat until the guy in front of me moved his seat all the way back. So then, with my monitor two inches from my face, I had no choice but to move my seat back too, to the annoyance of the person seated behind me. Ah well. As usual I couldn't sleep on the flight, but I watched 3 movies. It's just after 12:30 pm here local time, 3:30 am Vancouver time. Feeling a bit jet lagged now. Unfortunately Lufthansa didn't have ... read more

Oof – a few days behind here, so here is my attempt to catch up. Thursday was crazy. Thursday was our full day at Oktoberfest and it was awesome. Let me go off on a tangent for a second… Go back to 2008 when I was studying abroad in Italy – it was the first few weeks that I was in Europe. I was carefree and obvious, but I had heard that Oktoberfest was a must. I met up with a group of sorority sisters in Munich for the event and I had no clue what I was about to walk into – I hadn’t researched anything about it or really heard an in depth explanation of what Oktoberfest even was – I just knew it involved drinking. My friend from college happened to have a ... read more

On the TGV now from Paris to Frankfurt, the final stop on this European adventure for our intrepid group of student travelers. It is a quiet coach as everyone sleeps. Many stayed up very late last night talking and reminiscing about the adventures that they have shared, hoping to prolong the experience and delay its inevitable end. It is an interesting mix of emotions as they prepare to depart for home. Everyone is looking forward to reuniting with families, even younger siblings, and to regaining access to what they know; the normalcy of life in general. They are also no doubt exhausted from our epic journey in Paris. It was four days of absolute non stop brilliance. We visited museums like the Orsay with its incredible impressionists, the Louvre with its enormous collection of paintings like ... read more