Derag Hotel Kanzler Bonn

... So viel ist schon passiert, so wenig habe ich bisher erlebt. Neue Freunde, eine 2te Familie und ein ganz anderes Leben erwarten mich hier. New York, meine neue Liebe! <br><br>Jetzt, mit mehr Zeit und Muse widme ich mich dem langersehnten Lebenszeichen. :) <br><br>Viel Spaß beim lesen!<br><br>

... these men, we learned that their mugs are from the early 1900s, and have been passed down from father to son for generations. When these mugs and the Hofbrauhaus were created, Bavaria was still its own independent monarchy--a political situation these men are keen on returning to!<br> From there, Katie and I returned to Cologne, and were there later reunited with the crew. We all had a fantastic, and at sometimes slightly too crazy time exploring ...

... on after doing a bit of shopping to Freiburg. As the gateway to the black forest, we caught a train through to a town called Titisee and did a quick hike in the nearby hills. The black forest turns out to be quite large and we didn't have much time so after our day trip we had to keep going, leaving most of the hikes and black forest towns behind us. We caught a train that followed the Rhine up to Cologne, a lively town that was mostly destroyed in the war ...

... br> For those of you who know him, Jeff, my housemate of two years, spent a summer in Eastern Oregon researching birds. There he was assigned a room mate, Sarah Ingham, an adventurous Irish girl in the States for the summer. They had a wonderful time together, and I also got to spend some time with Sarah. This past week Jeff and I were both able to travel to Ireland to see Sarah's home town, Westport. <br> I've been to Ireland before, but only to Dublin, so I've ...

... awed. The church did have a 'sanctified' feeling, and I was asked to remove my hat inside the building.<br><br>We took a few tasty and large pretzels and apfel strudels for lunch, once again enjoying the delights of German pastry shops. Unfortunately we did not have the time to visit the German-Roman museum, but we did manage to buy a few things at their gift shop.

This is not a great adventure, more a welcome back.<br><br>It is great to be back in Villiprott to visit our old friends since the 70ies. Now I have been staying with them for two weeks and we have done a lot of different things. This part of Germany have many interesting places to visit, both nature and culture.<br>

... and Amsterdam in Netherlands. Philip and Lawrence both took their cars over for the tour, with highlight of the Nürbergring racetrack. As they say, what happens on tour stays on tour, but we had a brilliant time. Here's a few pictures and video's from the Germany part of the trip, courtesy of Elias, who had the commonsense to bring a camera.

... Russian. The minister would intermix Ukrainian and Russian words along with a few local Ruthenian ones for good measure. After a while you don&#8217;t even pay attention to which languageit&#8217;s in&#8230;.you just take it in!<br><br>We went over to the "Revival" Center one last time. On the street a young woman is staggering. Dr. P tells me that she is drunk and probably will never recover. He was very quick to assess this in a country ...

... stay in Europe, or Germany, I recommend the website of Deutsche Bahn (German rail). They give you a lot of information with an incredible depth of detail. You can buy your tickets online and print them on a piece of paper (only thing you need is a credit card or a German bank account). If you buy a Bahn Card, you will get some serious discount. Especially if you are a student, a Bahn Card is cheap and is gonna save you a lot ...

... you like surprising people, right? Sooner than you expect, you'll get the surprise..." I never really understood her intention behind saying this to me until I saw Rajiv in that Central Station - I was completely shocked and trying to act normal (as if it was normal...) I only remember that I ended up wishing him happy b-day which I knew very well that would be in only 3 day-time. I was just very happy to see him ...