Bonn, Germany Travel Blogs

Rhein Beauty
Aug 10, 2008 (4 photos)

A quick excursion to Bonn visiting some friends including the obligatory castle.

Road Trip
Oct 2, 2005 (5 photos)

... the tallest hill in the area and we headed for it. An hour later we were at its apex looking out over Holland into Germany on one side, and further into Belgium on the other. Riding back we realized that we had ridden into Belgium soon after leaving the ...

daheim
Jun 8, 2005

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some pics
Aug 26, 2008 (9 photos)

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The Beginning of Football Fest 2006
Jun 9, 2006 (27 photos)

... the crowds. Getting around in Germany is going to be difficult but I am going to do my best. Needless to say, accommodation in Germany is scarce and a hostel can set you back 60 Euro a night so this is where contacts might come in handy. If there is a ...

Trains ain't my thing today........
Jul 24, 2006 (7 photos)

... crying fit I had 2 cars down.Lord knows they did not want me to bust out with that in there. Haha. So now it is bedtime, we have passed some mountains somewhere in Germany - Good Night. Cry Baby I'll add pictures tomorrow , I am on wireless---

A real Mensch
Jun 13, 2006 (2 photos)

... start. Find your way to a little schnitzel shack near the university mensa and you will find the greatest treasure of Bonn. While enjoying a 5 euro Schnitzel, we found Bonn's hidden treasure, a young schnitzel waitress with a 9.9 rack. Of course one ...

A Whiter Shade of Pale
Jun 10, 2008

In which we take a brief anthropological look at an unexpectedly fascinating feature of the "culture" of major airlines. I arrived in Germany on Sunday.  As for my luggage?  Looked liked it was going nowhere, baby.  Or going somewhere, ...

The Circle of Life - Part II
Nov 11, 2005

... time to grab a bite of sandwich and get a sip of orange juice. I was too excited to sleep. I could only think of coming to Bonn, surprising Rajiv, seeing Amit again... I was about to come back to my "given point". My mom always says: "Helena, you like ...

noch zwei Tage...
Dec 28, 2005

Übermorgen geht´s los. So langsam werde ich auch ein bisschen kribbelig. ich muss noch einkaufen, packen (welche Tasche nehm ich bloß mit?), die Reiseapotheke zusammenstellen, ordentlichen Mückenschutz organisieren, Frau Stock den Schlüssel zum Blumen gießen ...

Back home in Bonn!
Jul 28, 2005 (1 photos)

Finally back home! Getting ready to fly out! Next entry will be from a land far far away...

Thursday
Apr 24, 2008 (9 photos)

... a section of the first German Parliament, it was great. Afterwards, we just walked around the city for a few hours. Bonn was actually Germany's capital during its occupation; you'd never guess it. This is definitely not a city that screams capital. It was ...

Quite a bit of travelling ahead!!
Nov 6, 2006 (83 photos)

... . After a bit of looking around and some more window shopping (btw, I've been quite unlucky with clothes shopping in Germany...nothing fits properly, mostly the sizes are too big!!) we headed back to the Starbucks and got ourselves a really good coffee for ...

Cologne - Bonn - Cologne : An Excursion
May 27, 2007 (50 photos)

... and its surroundings in this travelpod. Some general info on Cologne The city itself According to Wikipedia, Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city after Berlin, Hamburg and Munich, and is the largest city both in the German Federal State of ...

Rosrath
Sep 18, 2005 (4 photos)

... his car that was parked just outside of the airport exit. The weather was beautiful. Contrary to normal September conditions, Northwest Germany was experiencing an Indian Summer. There was not a cloud in the sky on that bright 75 degree bright sunny day ...

Zurück
Jan 24, 2006

Das wars. Leider ist der Urlaub schon um und ich bin heil zurück in Deutschland angekommen. Mein Koffer kam erst zwei Tage nach mir, da der Flug von Dakar nach Lissabon Verspätung hatte und man es dann offenbar nicht mehr geschafft hat, alles rechtzeitig in ...

Soaking wet in a red fountain!
Sep 23, 2008 (44 photos)

Last night was the craziest night ever! Yesterday we started off the day by just walking around Bonn, it is so nice and pretty here we went shoe shopping as I am TRYING to find boots but it is very difficult!!! we went to the botanical gardens it was so ...

Bonn demais!
Nov 20, 2005

... to the same place 10, 20 times if I have a good reason - and this good reason has always been my loved ones. Bonn was nothing different than that... I would just travel to be with the PEOPLE again, to have those "unforgettable moments, inexplicable ...

This NOT the last day of my trip. Did not get home
Jul 15, 2009 (13 photos)

... on the bullet train we zipped right past them.  Amazing.  I tweetet and facebooked my joyride.  37 minutes to Bonn, Germany. Jesmina was on the platform waiting. We went to the German Office.  I was really impressed by how the Office ...

From Bonn to Berlin
May 30, 2006 (5 photos)

... , here's the story (those that know, skip to the next paragraph). I was invited by a German NGO to visit Germany and meet with representatives of the liberal party in Germany to see how they run their political operation, particularly regarding media and ...

Beethoven's home town
Apr 2, 2007 (7 photos)

Today was one of those really fun days in Europe when everything is closed!!! Did a day trip to Bonn, less than an hour by train. Bonn well known for being the birthplace of Beethoven. The centre of town consisted of pedestrian only streets, making easy ...

Sleep deprivation and public transport...
Aug 25, 2006 (4 photos)

... dance and do goofy things". * SLAP * Stupid woman! She was fairly newly graduated and AIESEC is pretty well known in Germany, so she obviously had had some friends in AIESEC at uni and expressed herself really stupidly, but I corrected her as calmly and ...

Bon Bon!!!
Sep 21, 2008 (49 photos)

... !!!!  Haha but it actually went really fast with jennifer there!  WAY better than my long day by myself from itlay to Germany!!!! We are having the BEST time here I am so so sooooo happy I got to come and stay with her this time has ...

Bonn, Beethoven
Apr 10, 2006 (8 photos)

... campus was large, in my opinion, almost bigger than the city. Crossing a market, we arrive at a small square, where the West Germany government was.  It was no larger than a yard of a middle school. Eric was a coin collector.  He found some ...

Bonn
Aug 18, 2008 (46 photos)

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First impression of Bonn
Jul 17, 2006

... is in close competition with Ryan , whose blog has made me laugh many a time! =) So, I arrived to the lovely German city of Bonn just over three weeks ago - had a great reception (which by no means was intended for me, was a surprise B-day party for ...

The happenings so far...
Jul 17, 2006 (8 photos)

First weekend in Bonn was b-day party for Daniel on Friday and football (Germany-Sweden... no comments please!) followed by bbq on Saturday. Friday was interesting, I was introduced to "bitches-bitches" - a drinking game which was actually a GAME (unlike ...

Last week
Jul 17, 2006 (11 photos)

... not be happy the next day. Funny. Tuesday was Paulas B-day and we prepared the best party in the history of traneeships in Bonn :) Again - pictures prove it all. It was all in all a nice party, but apparently - according to our nearest neighbor- the ...

Ugly nipples!
Jul 18, 2006

So today, I come home and meet Dori in the hallway chatting to the old guy living next door - Amit prefers to call him "ugly nipple guy" as the poor old man walks around without a shirt on... An hour later, after Doris long chat with the Hungarian man and ...

From the new capital to the old
Apr 10, 2009

... show us around Bonn a little, and to go out for a nice walk. It was also fun to be able to ask them questions about German things which had been puzzling us. Bonn itself seemed a nice town, very pleasant and like almost everywhere so pedestrian friendly.