Blogs from Germany, Europe - page 660

Laiva tuli Travemündeen klo 20 aikoihin. Oli kova hinku päästä ajamaan koko päivän laivassa homehtumisen jälkeen. Päätin ehtiä vielä samana iltana Berliiniin. Matkaa oli n. 300 km ja alla autobaana, joten kuvittelin olevani perillä ennen puoltayötä. Toisin kävi. Bensavalo syttyi, juuri kun olin ohittanut bensa-aseman. 50 km jälkeen kylmä hiki alkoi nousta otsalle. Ei vieläkään bensa-asemaa. Muistelin, että olin joskus ajanut melkein 100 km valon syttymisen jälkeen, joten jatkoin matkaa. 70 km kohdalla moottori yhtäkkiä vain sammui, ilman mitään ennakkovaroitusta. Siinä sitten oltiin autobaanan reunassa hengetön mopo ja nolo kuski. Ja eihän minulla mitään tiepalvelun numeroa tietenkään ollut mukana. Ennen kuin ehdin lopettaa kiroamista ja muodostaa koherenttia toimintasuunnitelmaa, paikalle kurvasi ADACn tiepalveluauto. Joku ohi ajanut autoilija oli ilmeisesti soittanut heille. Kiitos ... read more

Greetings from Germany Everyone. This is our last blog from Europe and we hope you all enjoy it. After finding our hostel which was surprisingly good, we headed into town to explore, the only problem with that was that we got rained out. Stephen thought it was a good idea for him to take his jacket, but not the hood and in fact no it wasn’t. So much so the hood hasn’t come off again. We decided to head out for dinner, luckily for us it was across the road to the Augustine Braushaus where we both downed a LITRE of beer. The glasses were massive and so heavy. We had decided it was a bit touristy for us, so we headed to another one just a few minutes away and it was tipsy mcstaggers distance. ... read more

A hang gliding adventure one day after the engagment? Coincidence? John decided that it would be an awesome idea to jump off the side of the mountain and I was going whether I liked it or not. So promptly at 9 AM our guides who were two 30ish year old stoners, Bernie and Dido, arrived at our hotel in a VW van. We did have a slight delay before loading in the van since Bernie and Dido had to remove the several cases of empty beer bottles strewn about the vehicle from a party the night before. But they did assure us that they had each had one additional beer that morning, so there was no hangover and thus nothing to worry about......... right. Needless to say, we both survived and it was really cool seeing ... read more

After 20something hours of traveling, i have come to my destination! Ended up catching the train out of frankfurt at 830 in the morning. The ICE is FAST, speedo went well over 220 km/h. Because of the earlier train i had 4 hours to kill in nurnberg, walked around the old part of town, saw the sites and had a brat and bun for lunch. Arrived in coburg at 330pm where we hung around at home for a while then walked around downtown. Going to bed early as i've been awake for 30 hours now, so after a good nights sleep i should be jetlag free. Flying over what i believe is hudsons bay. This is what looking out the window when your flying down the tracks at over 200km/h. Lastly, this is the fountain in ... read more

Today we took a great trip to the nearby town of Bergedorf. While there, we toured a castle, walked through the woods, stopped to play a bit, smapled the fare at a local street market, and thew kids shopped to their hearts content. We left in a sort of Seattle rain, more of a mist really. By the time we stepped off of the train in Bergedorf, it had stopped. We first stopped at a very old church for a look around at the old architecture and painting inside. After that, when we popped up to the castle, it was already full of visitors, so we changed things up a little. We walked through the gardens and trails through the woods. It was a great walk with many trees, streams and ponds. As we rounded the ... read more