Hello all, As promised, here is my blog. I may have to be quick as there is a host of people waiting for me. I arrived in Frankfurt on Monday, September 12 at 7am. Nice flight, good seat. Someway, somehow I was able to communicate my way to a train ticket and even make my way through transfers without a lick of German. And all this with the equivalent of my own body weight strapped to my back. Good times. I arrived in Bacharach, very cute little town packed with German tourists, and made my way immediately to my youth hostel, which was in a castle on a hill. Yes, you read correctly, on a hill. Please refer above to the amount of weight I was lugging around. Why oh why did I not pick a
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