Bonn
Travel Blogs from Bonn, Germany
Road Trip
... 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 ...
My Birthday
... . Mum told us that the person that sold her the sausages said that there were around 1500 'species' of sausages in Germany, and that in his opinion these were the best (this was probably just to get her to buy them though). After lunch we ...
The Beginning of Football Fest 2006
... in 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 ...
Trains ain't my thing today........
... 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 ...
Finally
We arrived in Dusseldorf Airport in Germany at 7:45am after an extremely long flight. We had come the whole way from Perth to Singapore, where we stopped for three hours. Then to Frankfurt, where we stopped for one hour and finally to Dusseldorf. The ...
A Whiter Shade of Pale
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
... 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...
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 ...
Back home in Bonn!
Finally back home! Getting ready to fly out! Next entry will be from a land far far ...
Thursday
... , 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 ...
Quite a bit of travelling ahead!!
... university. 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 ...
Soaking wet in a red fountain!
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 ...
Cologne - Bonn - Cologne : An Excursion
... Cologne 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 ...
Rosrath
... 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 ...
Zurück
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 ...
Museum of German History In Bonn
... at one time and stopped in a little cafe area for coffee and tea before continuing our tour. I also learned that Bonn was the capital of Germany while the Berlin Wall was in enforcement. Berlin was the capital before the wall was built and took ...
Bonn demais!
... 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
... 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 ...
From Bonn to Berlin
... , 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 ...
A real Mensch
... the 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 ...
Sleep deprivation and public transport...
... and 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 ...
Beethoven's home town
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 ...
Bon Bon!!!
... !!!! 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
... 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 ...
You call that chips n salsa? Clean laundry!
... shops, and a Rathaus under construction. Rather than looking at the ugly scaffolding, they draped it with a soccer scene. Nice job Bonn - very classy. The World Cup finals were that night with the Netherlands vs. Spain. I found an outdoor cafe near the ...


