Baden-Baden
Travel Blogs from Baden-Baden, Germany
Vietnam in Germany!
For our first day in Nonnenhorn the rain didn`t go away (we all kind of joked that James and I had brought it with us from Ireland since the rain came the night before right after we got down to the lake). Sylvia was in the greenhouse preparing flower ...
Last Day in Dublin & Getting to Germany!!
The 16th wasn't any more interesting than the 15th, we mostly just tried to work on the blog and watched tv in the common room at the hostel. We did go out for lunch though at a mongolian restaurant which is just like the Mongolian Express in ...
Back Home to Nonnenhorn
We left Tom and Louise's appartment around 10am and just barely got on our 1st train before it left to the main station, oops. We got back to Nonnenhorn around 1:30pm and dropped our stuff off and then went up to Sylvia and Dieter's place to say ...
Sailing the Bodensee!
James woke up in the morning feeling just as bad and so he layed around and rested for the first half of the day but I (Jackie) did manage to convince him to do some of that laying around down by the lake for a bit as the sun had come out. In the ...
For than just a cake...
... the history of Australia, Strasbourg, in my opinion, has fallen short in every respect. Firstly, 10km over the border from Germany, everything is significantly more expensive. Killing me. I don't know about you, but after paying 1.50 euro for ...
Home Alone!!
This day Hans and Diane left for Canada to visit family and so we got up to say goodbye and Dieter took them to Frankfurt for their flight. The day was pretty crappy again and so James and I (Jackie) just went up to Sylvia and Dieter's to hang out ...
Australia - last 16 of the world
... And so to the Top 5. Well, while we're on food, we may as well stick with it. Reflecting on the food so far in germany, one thing dominates my mind - meat. Just a whole heap of meat. Sure = there's sometimes bread and cheese, but it seems it's all ...
Just let me sleep...
... the raucous displays of the previous night - a night borne from 2 german goals and 0 swedish goals. Towns go silly when germany plays. Unfortunately, we normally get taken for the ride. Today is an alone day, no doubt. A much needed alone day. ...
Germany's Black Forest
... a guided Italian tour in the museum at the same time as us we got to hear some of the musical clocks and automatons. Baden-Baden Determined to experience the Baden-Baden baths, we spent a couple hours Sunday morning at Caracalla Spa. Of the two large ...
Worked,Relaxed, and Planned
Our time in Nonnenhorn was great. We rested, ate good food and I (James) did some actual work. I mowed grass, pressure washed planting tables, took old plants to the compost, and even helped clean up after a rainstorm flooded their cellar. So if anyone ...
Island of Mainau and Taking the Long Way Around
... trees and sub tropical plants, like it was picked up out of the carribean and planted right in the middle of Lake Constance in Germany; we looked and looked and all we saw were roses and geraniums and other very common plants, weird. There was a butterfly ...
Lunch at the monastery
(S) Our first stop in the drive to Immendstadt. This was our first foray into Dan's amazing ability to feed us very well - a brewery by a church - genius. What a place. (C) Beer, wonderful beer. I could sit here in the sun drinking these all ...
Booking Our Train, the Mall, and Blog Work
... all over them, we were no exception, gross. After the torturous ride the rest of the trip went smoothly and we made it back to our Germany home. We were still in the beach mood so that afternoon we slept and read in the sun by the lake and went for a ...
THE IDEA
... spending time on our blog. Please post comments and write something in our guestbook :-) The Idea travel from Stuttgart (Germany) to Tbilisi (Republic of Georgia) by train the team Baidi and Basty the motivation spend time together, ...
floating among dream-woven clouds
Travel Information Frankfurt - Stuttgart price: 50 € duration: 50 min carrier: Deutsche Bahn hints: book in advance! it's so much cheaper Diary Entry The last step of the travel, done by train. I can hardly believe ...
Getting Jaron and Amy to Warm Up to Us a Little
This happened to be a very nice day out as well. For lunch Diane made us a German dish called spietzle (probably butchered the spelling of that) which is homemade noodles and then in the afternoon Sylvia decided it was a good day for ice cream and so we ...
Waiting for Gufman
(S) My first trip to Germany!!! After my grandfather leaving this country 80 years ago, I'm finally here. We find a hotel with limited difficulty. It would seem Chad expects my German to be perfect - even though I took it for one year when I was 16. Let's ...
Leaving Stuttgart
In Germany the city of Stuttgart is well-known for HipHop music and cars. The country's most famous HipHop group "Die Fantastischen Vier" formed here. Prestigious companies such as Porsche, DaimlerChrysler and Bosch established their Headquarters in the ...
Lake Constance
We decided to spend a few days chilling out and acclimatising by Lake Constance on the southern border. We set off from Ulm first thing, but ran into a little trouble straight away when Brett took a wrong turn (it was actually his very first turn) and ...
Snags' long lost relatives
... bonus t-shirts for each one ordered. It doesn't really matter what happened in the game (besides I don't remember right now), because Germany won which meant everyone was happy - including me because I had defected to support Germany for one day. I was ...
preface to traveling
Preface to Traveling "Wer an der Küste bleibt, kann keine neuen Ozeane entdecken" Fernando Magellan (Who stays close to the coast cannot explore new oceans) What is the reason for traveling? What do we learn from roaming the continents ...
Australia vs Croatia - Crunch Time
... of 20 flares down your pants. Believe me when I say the security padding-down at Stuttgart was the most thorough I experienced in Germany. The other surprising discovery was that all the Croatian songs were totally lame. And when I say "all", I of course ...
Chapter 55: Stuttgart and Schwarzwald
... at discount prices. I'm not sure how that works, exactly, but supposedly the system has made the Aldi creators the richest guys in Germany. For dinner I treated Jonas to a meal at the restaurant where his brother works. It was a cool place with a loyal ...
Bathing in Baden Baden
Highlights of Baden-Baden: - Swimming in a warm outdoor thermal pool at the Caracalla Spa with snowflakes landing on our heads. - Kurhaus (the casino) - Friendly staff at Hotel am Markt - Old Castle "Hohenbaden - New Castle, former ...
Relaxing in the Black Forest
... . Let's just say the only thing that was spoiled was the bloody steak. It was so average that I vowed to never give Germany the chance to cook me one again! We hung around the impressive Campingplatz all day, watching the World Cup matches and kicking the ...
Bit of an anticlimax really
... have twiddled our thumbs. Had we not already checked in to the hostel, I think we might just have moved on to a more interesting town. The BOSS watched Germany win another world cup game on the hostel telly - with the only other guests, a German ...
Rain, rain go away
Till had dragged out all his maps and books about the local area and armed me with dozens of places to go and explore. Our first stop was Rottenburg (not to be confused with Rothenburg) for coffee. I had acquired a book - a very good murder mystery and ...
Too much adrenalin
We had made arrangements to meet my uncle in a town near Freiburg. The weather was still drizzly so we headed off early to give us plenty of time to get there. About ten minutes into the journey I realised it was Wednesday, not Thursday. We would be a ...

