Maritim Strandhotel Travemunde Lübeck

... five loaded tubes, the boat could store up to seven spare torpedoes. Where, only heaven knows!!! The U995 operated mostly in the Barents Sea covering the Allied Murmansk run of supplies to Soviets The U995 is the last surviving Type VIIc submarine and the same type depicted in the movie "Das Boot".

(Deb again) After the submarine, we went up to the German Naval Memorial. What a cool looking building! It rises to a ...

Woo... my first nationals!

I was lucky enough to join the Frankfurt squad for the Mixed Nationals this weekend in Kiel. The smart people got a group ticket and took the train...since Kiel is really really far away (by European standards), but I decided a trip with the team in the 9 seater van would be more entertaining. That was the thought, until we got an hour or two outside Frankfurt and ...

Wacköön wir kommen !!

Ein kleiner Ausflug muss noch sein, bevor es dann schlussendlich los geht einmal rund um unsre kleine blau Kugel

Das wird der Hammer. "Heut" (28.7) Abend gehts los mim Bus gen Norden.

Bilder und Berichte folgen wenn wir zurück sind, vielleicht.

... radio and TV signal processing/transmission), an Analog Electronics class (which is the second installment of a class that we started at MSOE with the Professor who no one could understand). It is going to be studying Operational Amplifiers, which do just what they sound like they do: receive a signal on an input line and make it more substantial and distinct without distorting it, Analog to Digital converters (ADC as well as DAC), which ...

... Then one of the older gentlemen came in and he was from Copenhagen and so we chatted about Denmark. I learned a lot about other cultures and countries during this stay. It was quite informative. This morning the weather sucked. It was dull and dreary and a light mist fell all morning. With my sore back, which seemed to be getting worse, it was an awful travelling day. The older gentleman from Copenhagen had suggested I visit the west ...

... Stall after stall was offering food, beer and wine, with communal singing to the guitar and accordion in true German fashion. We had a delicious dinner of maultaschen, literally 'mouth pockets', two ravioli about 9 inches across, washed down with two huge tumblers of wine each. Sunday was a rest day, which actually meant the usual chores of washing and drying, then Monday dawned fine and ...

... to have an early night ourselves. Thurs 17th July Alison: It was our final morning and Jutta had made arrangements for us to visit Peter's school to talk to his class about Australia. Rachel, Tom and I went there about 10.30 while Mum went off on an exploration of the local nature with Martin who had the day off. We had a great time at the school, showing photos of Australian animals, answering questions from the ...

Bordesholm is a town in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany in the district Rendsburg-Eckernförde. Bordesolm is also the name of a former historical district of the Kingdom of Prussia and Weimer Republic for which it was the district capital. The district of Bordesholm was subsequently dissolved in 1932 and parceled out to neighboring districts (parts of the district of Bordesholm were joined with the district of Segeberg and the ...

The Kiel Canal links the North Sea with the Baltic Sea. It starts from the River Elbe and reaches the Baltic near the port of Kiel about 60 miles. The canal was only about 300 feet wide and only 37 feet deep and is spanned by 7 high bridges. The transit time was about 8 hours as we were going slow.

The Baltic Sea Trip (4-6 Aug) As I have been really **** with updating this blog in the past couple of weeks (using "I don't have the pictures yet" as a bad excuse), this is going to be a super short entry, considering it was a very eventful weekend! Basic plot - having pizza in the park one Monday afternoon after work, Jennie asks if anyone is up for a road trip to north of Germany (close to Lübeck) and the Baltic sea for ...