Hotel Fantasie Ansbach

... their shop for a bit, then went down to the glass museum to look around for a while. About half an hour before we were supposed to meet, Katy and I strolled through the town to look for shops, but they were all closed, then our bus arrived and took us to a nearby town.


Once we got to the town, we had about an hour and a half to eat, so we strolled down to a “glass pyramid” then found a little place to grab a bite to eat. Katy and I decided to split a dish, then we ...

Today, right after breakfast, we crossed the European Continental Divide. We went into a lock that dropped us down 81 ft. At the bottom it was, as our tour guide said, like being a spider in a bathtub with concrete walls rising up just inches from the sides of the ship.
We docked at ...

... sadly…I lost a flipflop….poor flip flop! I loved those comfy flippyfloppys and gone forever!

Well once we got to Nuremburg it was all about the hockey game! A little backstory…Chris spent a year playing NHL09 (Playstation) online with his friend Danny. At first they changed their jerseys quite often but they eventually stuck with the Sinupret Icetigers (due to the lime green ...

... The cheering was intense and we could hear it all from the campsite…pretty fun! The campsite was very nice except for the fact that it was surrounded by acorn trees and we were constantly in fear of our lives! Lol…well just getting a bump on the head! We did get a few nice donks on the camper but it survived. One thing we did notice…no squirrels…very odd!

We explored the ...

... After failing to get their PC’s Skype to work, and using my limited German and hand gestures, we started over with Erin’s net book, and got the wifi to work.

For dinner we went to the Burgerkeller (no, not a hamburger joint), a quiet restaurant in the cellar of a hotel by the castle garden. We ate early, since we had to pack tonight for our travels tomorrow. It was another good meal. I had pork steak with mushroom sauce and potato cakes, and ...

... me pretty angry. So by the time I got back to bed I was too awake and couldn’t go back to sleep.

I finally got up about 7:30 am and worked on blog stuff for a while. Derek finally got up about 9:30 am and we went downstairs for breakfast. Most hostels include breakfast in their prices, but we had to pay 3.90 Euros here. It was worth it, though. We could eat as much as we wanted and they actually had fruit. Most hostels have bread and jam/butter and maybe some meat ...

... had two transfers, at Ansbach and Steinach, getting in at 10 till 7. On a solemn note, at breakfast I had my back to the TV, trying to ignore CNN, but I heard there was a school shooting in Ansbach, Germany in Bavaria. I told Erin that was one of our train transfer stops today, but we didn't notice anything unusual the 7 minutes we were there.

At Rothenburg we had a 15 minute walk from the station to our hotel in the middle of town, loaded down with ...

... and landed in Fort Worth/Dallas on November 30th. What happened there? Where is Einstein when I need him? Where's the relativity? Anyway. Trick #2: I'm not the smallest guy as you know, but put me in the last row of the plane, in the middle seat surrounded by two other large people and boy are we going to have fun for 10 hours. Especially when the person in front of me enjoys a nice recline and I can't recline in ...

... Unfortunately, the "...average can of beer has over 100 calories. Drinking one beer is the equivalent to eating a chocolate chip cookie." Downing 4 is equal to a Big Mac Hamburger. This new information backs up the very advice that the young woman working the desk (what can I say, I didn't get my own bottle opener until last night) has been trying to explain to me. The night before last she looked ...

... of fried items and accompanied the repast with what else? German beer. I engaged the help of a young man at the bar in making the selection. He helped me pick a German favorite and then explained why it took so long to pour and serve - to do it correctly you have to maintain a head of frothy white foam which entails two pourings with a wait of some length in between. He also convinced me that if I drank any German wine it should be white. We ended by ...