Best Western Hotel Zur Post Bremen

Today we went to Bremen (Mason, Shawn, Steven, Soth, Dave and I). We took the 9:20 train from Braunschweig but 2 of the guys didn't make that one so we waited in Hannover for an hour for them to catch up on the next train. It was a 2 hour 20 minute total trip which was not bad.<br><br>It was raining when we got to Bremen so picture taking was difficult. We didn&#8217;t have any plans so I bought a map/book and we wanted to find somewhere to eat lunch. We wandered towards the ...

... to my surprise it was 2 blocks away from the train station. You can actually see the train station from the entrance to the building. Yet anyways, I called Norbert and he was already at the office so he came down and took me up to the office. It was really cool to see, it had a lot of the same feeling that we have in San Diego. Then Norbert showed me around and we talked a little business and then headed out to tour the city. Again much to my Surprise ...

... cute. The centre has lots of old buildings that are pretty. It also has a area that has all little windy streets which is pretty cool. Oh yeah, Becks beer is also from this area and they have a brewery here,<br> <br> I really have just wandered around the town and rested up as I needed a bit if a break before heading up to Scandinavia in the next few days. This was a nice little town to do that in - aside from the excessive rain today it has been pretty good.

currently 1.38 dollars to the euro, keep fallin baby...<br><br>tonight the university, Hochschule, arranged a party for all its study abroad members, some 100 people from over 20 nations. tonight my neighbor went home with some girl from Bulgaria... (sketch) i talked to a Madrid native about Renaldo's move to real Madrid, he was not a fan. a handful of drunken Jordanians toasted America all night and our friends from Mexico... well ...

so today, around 5pm... local time we all did a bit of pregaming and around 8 we decided to go to a bar that has shots for a euro a piece.. along the way we stopped to get a doner, that's 3/3 for anyone keeping track at home... well Eric and i went to find the Euro Bar without much success.. after ...

... given a map of town, assorted documents that prove my student status here at the university (for tram pass discounts and such), as well as some advice about finding the nearby lake and more info about the Breminale festival. Then I left her office and met with my lab group. Since my advisor is offshore until Wednesday, I met with the postdoc who picked me up from the airport. He's super friendly, and he introduced me to another (dare I say, attractive) guy, who gave me a tour of the ...

For Damo's bday and our 3rd wedding anniversary we decided to book a weekend away. Damo had heard at work that a small place called Bremen was a nice place to spend a couple of days so I went ahead and booked some cheap Easyjet flights to Bremen. Whilst trying to find accommodation I got a call from Damo telling me that it wasn't Bremen he had heard about but Bruges in Belgium! Not only had it got the city wrong but the country as well!! We decided to go ahead and ...

... towards the city, but insead we circled the roundabout for over 5 mins! A great sight, we had cycles passing in a massive circle completely blocking all the roads into and out of the roundabout! After a time, we turned and headed into the city at a slow pace. We picked up a police escort about 1/2 way through the demo, not that we needed protection though :0 and as we turned back into the old town again we all turned off the road ...

... very famous there and I even rubbed the legs of one of the statues for good look, that's what they told me. There are lots of little ally ways and it's got so many good shops and restaurants. Well, off to Stansted London and then Prague. Talk to you all soon. Julian

... that stands in the middle of Bremen. I saw the hospital I was born in from the outside, as well as the flat I lived in for a short while (about 9 months) after I was born. Later on we went to another part of the Bremen docks and went into a submarine museum. Also interesting. I got some number plates.