Blogs from Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Europe - page 2

We are staying in Mainz along the Rhein Valley. We arrived in good time in the early afternoon yesterday then decided to be productive and go and book our final train tickets for Amsterdam. We searched for ages at the train station but couldn´t find a ticket office so hopped on a quick train to the main Mainz train station which took 3 mins but unfortunately we "hopped" on the wrong train back so instead of travelling 3 mins back to our hotel we ended up an hour out into the Countryside where there were no trains back! Luckily (?) we met a nice english speaking German guy on the train who helped us get a bus back (which took another hour!). How typical! We treated ourselves to a nice Mexican after the ordeal though. Today ... read more

We arrived back in Germany and go to try the camera before taking it to a shop and it works fine - go figure!... read more

It was with some irony that after my last long blog, I stepped out of the internet cafe in Mannheim, only to be hit by yet another shower of rain. Still we had a lovely hostel to keep us dry and all was good with the world really. Actually, I got to thinking after I sent of the last blog that I may be giving the impression that we're not enjoying ourselves, which is definitely not true. We've met so many good samaritans, seen so many wonderful little villages and sites along the way that my only real complaint is that this stupid camera I'm stuck with can't really capture any of it and cameras are almost double the price in Europe than they are in Tasmania. Anyways, enough of that. We were told that ... read more

We really have a fair amount of things to catch up on even though it only has been one week today traveling around Germany. We have seen some wonderful and not so wonderful things along the way. I'll start back in Hamburg where we first started and getting off the plane, jumping in a bus in the middle of no where and turning out onto a dirt road with the trees brushing the side of bus, I thought we were in the wrong country. Of course we were on the cheapest flight we could get and it was about 1 1/2 hours to the city from there! We arrived in Hamburg pretty early in the morning so set about meeting up with our couchsurfing host for the next couple of nights. We got the underground train ... read more

Vorbereitung auf das Abenteuer Wir waren uns nicht sicher, ob ein Zelt für unsere Tour aufgrund der Größe geeignet ist. Allerdings haben wir ein kleines Zelt bekommen, das gerade genug Platz für uns beide und hoffentlich auch die Rucksäcke bietet (thx dad). Das tolle ist, es wiegt nicht mehr als zwei Kilo und ist gerade mal so groß wie zwei Prinzen-Rollen. Ich freu mich schon auf die Übernachtungen am Strand von Australien :) p.s. Es sieht kleiner aus, als es ist ;) Abschiedsgrillen am Rhein in Mainz (26.05.) Als kleines Abschiedsfest wollten wir am Samstag das bis dahin gute Wetter ausnutzen und ein letztes mal am Rhein grillen. In nächster Zeit wird es wohl nur noch Barbecue am Strand von Australien geben Leider hat uns das Wetter gegen Abend einen Strich durch die Rechnung gemacht und ... read more