Landhotel & Seminarhaus Wiesengrund Paderborn

... guide me and I might very well end up in Siberia...

My life is given over to the elements that plaque my cycling excistence, a glass of stale wine in glasses opaque with use and bad dish washing in a small bars when the rain comes down in droves - untill Nong`s voice drives me on desperate to get me back to Amsterdam before I get evicted from my house...

The real cycling is on an old and beaten-up German produced Giant with ten gears instead of the brand ...

... 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.

... and then it was time for lunch. We finished packing up, and then it was time to head to Herford, where more relatives awaited us.
We weren't too sure when they were expecting us, and we didn't want to be early, so we decided to stop along the way. Near Dortmund, there was a fabulous museum describing the coal mining business in the Ruhrgebiet. The kids thoroughly enjoyed scampering over the playround, over the outdoor displays, and then going through a ...

... listed 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.

... hört sich toll an und wird es hoffentlich auch. Einen genauen Reiseverlauf gibt es eigentlich noch nicht, aber, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivien, Chile, Brasilien und vielleicht auch Kolumbien stehen ganz oben auf meiner Hitliste. Welche Länder ich schlussendlich bereisen werde könnt Ihr in den nächsten 365 Tagen verfolgen, wenn Ihr hier regelmäßig vorbeischaut. Am 22.08.2009 gehts los, Lima ich komme!!!
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Juergen

... so that was really neat. Then we went to the cafeteria, where we met Annabell again, and then received our food from conveyor belts that came up from the floor below. It was a neat idea, but it was no Lozzi! Next we went back to their office, and I got to practise my German. My hallo and dankeschön was so convincing, one of their friends thought I was German, until I ignored him because I couldn't understand him. Success! We spent the rest of the afternoon in the petting ...

Another foggy morning, and I really do not want to leave. However, we are off. Me back to Houston, Claudia back to work. A big resounding "BOO" from both of us! Germany was wonderful, and I highly recommend it to anyone ---> great food ...

... together to use as a makeshift bed - Claudia fit on her two seats better than I fit on mine. I couldn't seem to get my entire fat American ass to fit - too many Pappa's Burger hamburgers I guess - but sleep finally occurred. I woke up with ridiculously dry contacts and a right leg that refused to cooperate. Now the fat American has a limp to go along with the sexy and stylish double chin. Great. We were given 20 Euros by ...

... cover!! OUCH!!! But what was really funny was that the two bouncers were quite pimped out!! There was a black bouncer in a white suit and a white guy in a black suit!! hehe I thought that was pretty priceless! The music was good, a lot of techno though but they played some stuff that we knew and also Sexyback, that we had to go and request like 5 times!! Had the scare of my life when I got home to find out that Marc had an accident at work but thank god he's ok and everything is ...

... rather curious beauty of the massive wind engines gathering wind from the currents coming up and over two layers of hills. Then we drove across the Eggegeberg and southern Teutoberg to the lovely city of Paderborn. It is population about 150,000, is the seat of the bishop and a university. This is where we met Manuela, another online friend, who is a native born Paderbornian, I think. She is a student who also works for a bookbinder. First of all we went to a rather fancy ...