 | Whirlwind of a week...
2009-02-28, Cologne, Germany. By: hinks133 | | I apologize profusely for not keeping up this week. This second week was the 'relaxing' part of our vacation so I slacked a bit on the typing (and it was a pain to charge my ipod). It has been a whi... |
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| No pictures...
2009-02-24, Cologne, Germany. By: hinks133 | | Sorry, I won't be able to upload pictures during the trip. The computer at this hotel is set up to block uploads...or that is what I think it said. It's all in German. And the 'y' and 'z' kezs are ... |
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 | A corner near a fortress...
2009-02-22, Koblenz, Germany. By: hinks133 | | More on the hotel in Bendorf - absolutely amazing. It opened just last May and has quite the ambitious plan to build another building for more rooms, a biking trail, climbing wall, pool area, etc. I... |
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| A poem
2009-02-22, Loreley, Germany. By: hinks133 | | Margaret posted in the guestbook the German and English version of a poem written of Lorelei - the golden lady perched above the Rhine river where there is now just a platform to stand on. Jump over ... |
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 | Worms Cathedral
2009-02-21, Worms, Germany. By: hinks133 | | So, we arrived at our hotel in Worms only to find out our reservation had not, in fact, been received by the hotel. No problem though because they had plenty of room. They put us in the "Portugieser... |
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 | Schloß Heidelberg
2009-02-20, Heidelberg, Germany. By: hinks133 | | I think I forgot to mention the skulls hanging on the walls of our Bad Herrenalb hotel. They were so small and had horns... I figured it was the owners of this place that killed the last of the jacke... |
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| Thermal spa...
2009-02-20, Baden-Baden, Germany. By: hinks133 | | Well, like I said in my last post, the hotel in Bad Herrenalb grew on me by the morning time. Breakfast was excellent. The funniest thing about our stay was Scott trying to unlock our hotel room doo... |
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 | Schloß Disneyland
2009-02-19, Fussen, Germany. By: hinks133 | | So, when we returned to the hotel after the Dachau excursion, Scott totally crashed as soon as he hit the bed. I figured after I finished with my blog update, I'd take a quick 20 minute nap myself. ... |
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| No time for an update!
2009-02-19, Bad Herrenalb, Germany. By: hinks133 | | The place we stayed at last night had only Internet in the lounge area, so no update yet. I will post much about our time at Schloß Neuschwanstein when we make it to Worms this evening. I believe I'... |
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 | Dachau Concentration Camp
2009-02-18, Dachau, Germany. By: hinks133 | | The camp is situated in the town of Dachau and was extremely easy to drive to. Dumb-Dumb is slowly winning back some points with me. The parking was free though it was posted on the website and the ... |
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| A big lake...
2009-02-18, Schonau am Konigssee, Germany. By: hinks133 | | I'm breaking this day into two posts - not because I have so much info to share, but I wanted the extra pin on the map =). We had breakfast at the hotel this morning. I don't have many good things to... |
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| Oh, the Autobahn....
2009-02-18, Munich, Germany. By: hinks133 | | Welllll, we got up fairly early on the 17th, had an awesome breakfast (with assorted eggs, cheeses, meat, cereal, bread). Of course, both of us had to have some coffee. Scott also put down some oran... |
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 | We made it!
2009-02-16, Cologne, Germany. By: hinks133 | | Well, we finally arrived in Köln this afternoon. I never realized they had reduced the leg room on economy class seating to the point where you felt you were eating the seatback in front of you. I a... |
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 | Japanese in Germany
2009-01-14, Dusseldorf, Germany. By: zilla | | Over the next few days in Cologne and Dusseldorf, Rinna and I got lost, went to a chocolate museum, got lost, did purikura (those Japanese sticker photo booths), got lost, got irritated at one another... |
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 | The ephemeral made flesh
2009-01-12, Cologne, Germany. By: zilla | | In Cologne I was introduced to the soaring heights of Gothic architecture through Cologne Cathedral.
Also I did something strange and momentous: I met for the first time someone I've known for a l... |
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 | I fail at castles
2009-01-11, Wernigerode, Germany. By: zilla | | The day I travelled from Berlin to Cologne I thought it'd be great to go via Wernigerode, so I could see the castle there. I allowed three hours in which to do so.
However, when I arrived at the sta... |
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 | Changing tastes in art
2009-01-09, Berlin, Germany. By: zilla | | Gosh, I'm getting behind on this journal...
Some other things I did in Berlin:
- visited Tacheles, a former shopping centre built a century ago, bombed, turned into Nazi headquarters, abandoned, a... |
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 | A Bitter Farewell
2008-11-06, Berlin, Germany. By: brettdille | | As I sat down to write about our last week here, it occurred to me that I had forgotten to mention our misadventures in the realm of music. Soon after we arrived in Berlin, we found everyone talking a... |
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 | A different sort of backyard
2009-01-06, Berlin, Germany. By: zilla | | A 'backyard' in Berlin is not the the same thing as the bit of lawn, hills hoist clothes line and shed we describe as a backyard in Australia. No, it's a space created by the way apartment blocks were... |
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 | Food and street art
2009-01-05, Berlin, Germany. By: zilla | | I kind of got lost on Monday looking for a particular restaurant. Lucky thing, though - if I hadn't I would have missed some excellent street art and very colourful flats...
I'm glad I found the re... |
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 | Hausprojekt
2009-01-04, Berlin, Germany. By: zilla | | On Sunday I had an almost free vegan brunch at a 'hausprojekt'.
A hausprojekt (house-project) seems to be the sort of house where 10 or 15 people live and run workshops on things and put on vegan b... |
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 | Genau
2008-10-23, Berlin, Germany. By: BRETTDILLE | | I admit I’ve been slacking a little- okay, a lot. I’m post-dating the blogs starting from our second week in Berlin up to Sydney (thanks to our trusty red expense book). Some of the blogs were already... |
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 | Sobering and kitsch
2009-01-03, Berlin, Germany. By: zilla | | I took the rapid train from Arhus to Berlin at 8:05am yesterday. Mostly all I've done so far is wander... walking down Unten den Linden, looking at the historical buildings, statues and memorials, bra... |
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 | Guten Tag!
2008-10-16, Berlin, Germany. By: brettdille | | We're moving to Berlin! Some day. We are staying in East Berlin in the Prenzlauerberg aka Parentslauerberg area. This particular area is full of young couples, babies, and parks. We're renting from th... |
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