Hotel Zur Krone Arnsberg

From the beginning, it was agreat experience: I left my mobile<br>(business and private cell phone) at home not to be disturbed during my<br>trip.<br><br>In the train travelling to the airport, I met an older couplr, which told me a lot about Egypt - a good start to be informed...

So the Landy is all ready. Now we have to concentrate on the camping gear, and all the stuff needed for the rally itself.<br><br>We wanted to ...

So Derek is in the UK, and I am in Germany. <br>The Landy has had a good service free of charge from Gratech, we are very grateful for that.<br>Derek is getting stickers and advertising organised, and I am concentrating on the quiz, and making sure we have all the ...

Day 21: Travelled to cologne where the Sturmats were at the train station to meet me. Abit of background.. me and larry met them on the ferry coming over from england and they invited me to stay for a couple of nights. There hospitality was amazing... After walking around Cologne for abit we drove to Wuppertal where the girl Antje will be going ...

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.

... pub for a fantastic brunch. Andrijana who is 7 mths pregnent and Lea left and the rest of us (Inc. Jorn's parents) walked round the park and castle overlooking W¨¹rzburg. It bought back good memories of when I was last here. At 4pm it was time for Lea to blow out the candles on her cake. And the best part for us was eating both her chocolate cake and our adult alcoholic fruit sponge. Yummy. We cracked into some Würzburger ...

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.

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 ...