Blogs from Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Europe - page 46

Hallo Schnuckis of the world. We have a winner!!! And not only did he discover the city he also gave a lot of info about the pictures!!! here is the X-file frm Jean-François! Hahahaha Je me suis bien amusé à faire le google-détective. Voici quelques conclusions de mon rapport top secret: - Sony Centre - Russian embassy (Unter den Linden 55/65) - Soviet War Memorial (near Brandenberg Gate) - Checkpoint Charlie ----------------------------------- this is a mistake I hadn't been there yet... - New National Gallery (Sculpture Garden) Bon, j'arrête car j'ai déjà passé une heure à ces conneries So yes anyway I am in Berlin, I got on so well with Nadja in Mexico that I decided to meet her again here in Berlin! But now Holiday is OVER I am coming back home this WE, ... read more

These past few days have been for relaxing. Angie is running around trying to get all her paperwork done for the army, so if she has some problems with that, you won't be hearing from me for a few days. But I'll start blogging again after they get resolved. In the meantime, I'm babysitting AJ while Angie and her husband run around and take care of some of the paperwork. He's pretty cute. This leads to another first time life experience: the first time I ever changed a diaper was in Germany! I've watched babies before, but never any as young as him (he's 3 months) and never long enough to have to worry about changing them. Luckily it wasn't anything messy! He's napping right now. We didn't do much yesterday. We went into Kaiserslautern ... read more

Hello peeps. Angie and I are going to start doing stuff tomorrow; today was Sunday and everything here is dead then. But we have created a tenitive itinerary of places to go and when....we realized since we have to optimize the days the days her husband is off work (so he can watch AJ) and the other days have to include trips to close places, we need to plan where we're going and when. So, I share with you all what we are doing until I leave: Tomorrow, May 7th: Castle seeing and Heidelberg Tuesday, May 8th: The Japanese Gardens and Kaiserslatern Castle (and more of the city) Wednesday and Thursday Angie needs to take care of "getting out of the army" paperwork. Friday, May 11th: What we're calling the "Belgium Circle." We're driving and stopping ... read more

Cycling from Holland to Germany it felt as if we were back in the rolling Kent countryside again - and yes we did feel those extra acquistions on the hills! We arrived in Aachen early and met a couple of other cycle tourists in the campground. Like many other cycle tourists we have met, they were up and out of the campsite before we had even put our heads out of the tent the next morning. There is some logic in this, it means you have covered considerable ground before the sun gets high and hot in the sky. Somehow this logic has not filtered down to us, and we still enjoy long and slow starts over large breakfast bowls and morning showers before a mid morning departure! Leaving Aachen the push was then on to ... read more

FIVE YEARS AFTER - 10th April 2007. Time is an elusive thing - you can’t touch or hold it, you can’t speed it up or slow it down, it deposes kings, it moves mountains, it fades our memories, it strengthens bonds. Fives years after the England to Singapore bike trip, the five core members of the team have stayed in touch, met up for a reunion, and changed their lives completely. In this blog entry I’d like to briefly tell you what has happed to the other members of the group and to myself - this has been another amazing journey, through life. SCOTT ZENTACK. He was the first to leave for home. I knew Scott would make it from the start, he was well prepared and determined. But in Singapore, I had the feeling ... read more