Hotel Zur Krone Arnsberg

... setting up the tent over the weekend, but didn't get the time. So now we just have to hope we can figure it out when we get to Calais.

... in the entry requirements.
We have to get all the right maps, so D will be off doing that this week too.
I already have 2 sponsors in the US, and hopefully, there will be a few in the UK. E-mails to my non-work contacts are in order, I think.

... talked story and it was nice to relax and sleep in a bed that wasnt in a hostel.
Day 22: In the morning Antje, her sister and her niece drove me up to a beautiful view over Sauerland called Faulebutter. In the evening we then met up with Antje's friends and had dinner and then went to a lake and spent the evening talking and hanging out...

Ja, unsere Tour ist zuende!! Es ist schon unglaublich, aber wenn man so zurueckdenkt, kommt sie einem unglaublich kurz vor. Wir haben so lange von dieser Tour getraeumt und sie geplant und nun ging es am Ende so schnell. Es war teilweise schon extrem anstrengend und wir hatten zwischenzeitlich auch schon mal ein Tief und waeren liebend gerne nach Hause geflogen. Letztendlich gehoert das aber bei so einer Reise wohl dazu und wir sind sehr ...

... do extremly well... the waiting can be quite long..few more hours and to turkish picked us up near Hannover... the language barrier is quite a big issue as instead of taking us to the next Tankenstelle on the autobahn they drove into an industrial zone and looked for a gas station there and left us there...lesson for us: never let ppl take you off the highway!!!! We spent the whole evening and night figuring how to get back on the road...as it was an industrial zone only ...

... Frank McCourt, Stephen King; the "*****" books, and books by Danielle Steele. Quite a good range I think. I went for "Depths" by Henning Mankell, because a) The Guardian says: "Razor sharp...Mankell is, without doubt, one of the most impressive crime writers at work today" according to what's printed on the front cover, and b) I have never heard of Henning Mankell.

Day 159. Car Share rules 20/9/08 So I arrived at 4.30pm and met Andrijana and little Lea for the first time. Oh and of course Jorn who I had not seen for 6 years :) Andrijana and Jorn were preparing dinner and food for Lea's 3rd birthday party. Dinner was a vegetarian speciality of pasta and tasty sauce. Jorn apparently doesn't cook very often these days but the dish was tasty. The evening we were so tired, especially ...

I had a great time with simons parents (Simon is a german friend of ours whom we met in Florida). The father didn't speak English but the mother could. She was so hospitable to frank and I. They fed us and took us to see castles in the area in their ************vertable volkswagon. Man that was a steal. Simon had soccer practice so he states at his flat in münster and we hung out with the parents. Cool people.

... ganz egal, was man denn eigentlich will. Wir haben uns jetzt entschieden (Sprosse und ich), daß er für mich alles in Stuttgart beantragt. Damit wäre alles an einem Ort und auch gleich da, wo es eigentlich hingehört - nachdem ich letztes Wochenende endlich bei Ihm eingezogen bin. Ansonsten bin ich fleißig am Indonesisch lernen, aber durch die Unregelmäßigkeit meiner Bemühungen gestaltet sich das etwas schleppend. Nach wiederholter ...

Well back home again, went out straight after getting back and to my suprise, that saturday night was actually quite big in my quiet little town. My friends band played at a pub and all my friends were there and even all not friends, in fact all town was out that night (ok the older generations excluded, although the token old drunk guy at the bar was still ...