Berg Cologne

I have watched in growing horror as the months have passed and I have still written no new blog entry. As the weeks continue, the task has seemed more and more insurmountable. Since my last entry I have traveled to Hamburg, the USA, Poland, and Amsterdam. How am I supposed to cram all that into something remotely readable?? And with Karneval fa...

Feb.7th, 2010 Getting pretty excited to go in a few days. Trying to update my packing and plan on going very basic and high-tech. Rick Steves site is a great reference. I modified some of the pack essentials. I'll see how well everything fits and update my list. I think traveling light makes all traveling easier.

Hey guys! So, despite Grandma's continuous push for me to blog more, I really haven't been keeping up with it very well. I think most of the people reading this have a facebook and have been able to keep up with me via that but, for those of you who haven't, here goes. My plan to hang out in Germany for a year and "take a break" so to speak has ...

Cologne (or Köln) is the first city in which I stayed the entire weekend, and it was so nice to stay in one place for more than one night! The train ride to Cologne was pretty long (around 4 hours) but very scenic. The train winded through the German country side and I saw so many little towns and farms. It was kind of strange because we were go...

We are beginning to realize that extended travel is kind of like the mythological ideal mate.

You know; when you find yourself in that routine familiar relationship you always yearned for when you were single, your brain starts to conjure up this ideal unflawed character who will wait on you hand and foot. He / She never complains, acc...

Before I begin, some interesting facts about Germans I have learned:
1. Germans are absolute gluttons for fresh air. It could be zero degrees outside and they will declare that a room is stifling and insist on opening all the windows. Every day I go to school wrapped in shirts, sweaters, jackets, tights, pants, socks, leg warmers, gloves, sc...

So, awaking at 5am for the early bird flight I get to the airport and it is dead! Like, seriously very, very quiet! So it's quickly through passports and after getting distracted reading some books in a shop I figure I'd best head for the gate - it's pretty much boarding time!! Annoyingly, it's gate 1 which is thee longest walk from where I am....

First Thalys Trip Tres Bien! Perfect words to describe the Thalys train and our first trip on the Thalys. I suppose it is a TGV, but it is newer and more special. I was really excited to be on this train, for it is the first time on one of the Trains of Grand Vitesse. This one goes 300 kilometers an hour. From my elementary calculations I think ...

The other day, I had to pick some friends up from the airport in Cologne. Their flight arrived at 8:30 a.m. and so I had to take a train from our apartment to the Main Train Station and then catch another train to the airport. No problem. Since the Cologne Bonn Airport is much closer than the airport in Dusseldorf (where I had traveled to before...

Part I - Dr. Andrea The day that Steve and I moved into our apartment (which was two weeks ago), I came down with a cold. At first it was just a sore throat and a stuffy nose but it got progressively worse from there. Being the stubborn person that I am, I refused to take time to rest and spent most of the first week taking the train all over Co...