Blogs from Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Europe - page 5

We got back from Berlin this evening around 5 pm. We came home to a home cooked meal after living on street bratwurst, various pastries, cheese plates, brochen and Nutella for the past three days. We left Berlin at about 8:30 am and the weather (which had been drizzling and cool the whole time we were there) was already in the high 80's. That is a long day in a Fiat Panda with no A/C and 90+ degrees for almost 700 km. At least there are no speed limits on the Autobahn because it almost feels like air conditioning once you get over 140 with the windows down. I do find myself however saying "huh?" a lot after 7 hours of howling winds by my ear. Who needs hearing anyway when you can't understand the ... read more

UntitledCheston & Katherine HerveyTomorrow morning we leave for The Netherlands and Belgium. We will be staying in Volendam (just north of Amsterdam) for two nights before making our way down the coast to Voorschaten (just north of Rotterdam) for one night. From there we will head down into Belgium for three days; Brugges, Brussels and Antwerp before heading back to Koblenz. Click Here for our route. If you zoom out you can see the red line that marks our loose itenerary. After sleeping til almost noon today (we did stay up until 1 am watching the Princess Diana Concert with Yola) and napping for an hour in the middle of the day, we are pretty much adjusted to the time difference. It was difficult considering that the sun doesn't go dow... read more

Chet summed everything perfectly, so all I need to add is that this trip is going to be a great chance to perfect our ever so American-German. I had been listening infrequently to German cd's, to learn how to get us around, and to try to impress my husband a little bit. I will admit that I was so proud of myself as I boarded that airplane, that the moment one of the stewardesses said something so simple as, "Gutentag," as we boarded, my vocabulary was minimized to, "Er, hello," said in a German accent. It's funny, how once you are immersed in the culture, you suddenly have lost everything you have prepared yourself for. It was like I had encountered stage fright. My second chance was when in the air, the stewardesses came for ... read more

Day 18, 18th June. Wesserling - Bonn - Remagen A bit Queezy!!! I was up all night with the worse sickness and diarrhea I’ve ever had. I didn’t realize my body could contain so much puke, yuch! Rory helped me out and stood in some of my vomit in the process. It must have been some sort of food poisoning. At 10.30 we set off, I felt weak, but we found the Rhein and continued to Bonn where the guys got their bikes fixed and other bits added too… Toby became one of the ‘Brookes squad’ and then his front pannier rack broke! At Remagen we stocked up on food, after only about 30 miles I was weak, we decided to camp on the site there. It was raining as I pitched tent at 5pm. I ... read more

so i've finally got this thing going......im sure we'll keep updating it from now on, but a quick summary of what we've done so far: *got here a day early, stayed in frankfurt, walked around for a bit, realized wine is as cheap as water. it was a good day *got to campus, got into our dorms, met some ppl *class, pub crawl (that we turned into our own superior version) *visited the european central bank *class again, watched the soccer championship (the superbowl for europe), drank WAY too much fantastic german beer *class annnnnd thats a quick summary as of tonight......pictures coming soon - joe... read more