Hansa Wiesbaden

The beer and Valium may cause a slightly hazy navigational experience while trying to catch my next flight. This will in no way cause me to actually avoid these drugs, but rather it will simply push me to do a bit of extra planning while still state-side.
I'll look up the map of the airport.
I'll work out my route from one gate to the next.
I'll look into specific landmarks to help jog my potentially foggy ...

Short entry this time....

Only here for one night. Got to the hotel saw a couple of shops with beersteins, birkenstocks and clocks. Had dinner and watched some feral women proceed to get ****** and act like idiots in the hotel bar. Some good news though, won 30 euro on the slot machine in the hotel.

One of the guys (we assume it was a guy) even peed in the hotel hallway and our Tour Manager had to clean it up. People can be such animals.

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... Well here's the story:

After having met a bunch of design students "by chance" (still don't believe in chance though ;) at a party,

[to be continued]

I reckon this trip will help me to make some awesome pictures.

... go straight to sleep on the bus. she puts it down to having a kid and she can get woken up lots overnight so you get used to going quickly back to sleep but i mean seriously we're in a bus and its definatly not the most comfortable thing to sleep in.
Went to a beer stein factory this morning and it was heaps interesting to learn how they make them and the storys behind them..
anyways caitlin

... waltz in, and ask to taste. You get a few glasses of wine, chat, and move on....for free. My kinda place. We hit about 5 wineries today. Germany has some rocking Reislings, and my tummy is full of them.

After our housing debacle yesterday, we used HostelBookers.com to find a room for 2 nights in Wiesbaden, a cute little town near Mainz on the Rhine. The hostel had just 1 review: "It looks like the Shining hotel". Sold!!! So we ...

... the hookers seemed to still be waiting for the American GI’s. It was raining and dreary, but soon to change when Erik’s cousin, Nadine, and boyfriend, Flo, picked us up to take us to their home town outside the big city near the Tanus Mountains. We had a wonderful visit, them taking us to a traditional German restaurant where we tasted fresh apple wine. We topped it off with a visit to their apartment. What a great way to end the trip!

... German unity. It just dwarfed us all, and after marvelling for a while at the sheer engineering skill of it, we took the cable car down over yet more vineyards to the pretty, touristy town of Rudesheim, and then our last ferry and a train back to Bacharach! We have one last night in the castle, and then we part ways, Marla heading on to Hong Kong for a week, while we move on to Cologne. All our best from Germany, Dan and Gabrielle

... a couple more things before going to bed. My last night in Essen.
Sunday I woke up and finalised my packing. I called Rafael's room just incase he wanted to come too, but he was not feeling too well. I went to say good-bye and just managed to catch the tram with Annabel. The train ride to Cologne was PACKED with people in costume, and most of them were drinking on the way there. Somehow on the train my mobile phone disappeared. It could have been ...

We arrived in Frankfurt around 7:15 in the morning. Because of the World Cup, there was a FanFest06 festival set up on both sides of the river Mainz. There were tons of booths, selling a variety of things such as jewelry, clothes, toys, and furniture. In addition, there were a variety of food booths that served food from many countries, including but not limited to, Nepal, America, France, and Vietnam. We walked around Frankfurt for a while until around tour of the German ...

I've been in Frankfurt several times, mostly checking out the gift show in my capacity as a trade show geek in general, promoter of my frog line in particular. So I know the town a bit. But this time we merely pass through, in the middle of the night, right through the center ...