Mercure Hotel Aachen am Dom

Jeudi 31 décembre 2009, dernier jour de l'année- je suis au chaud à la maison avec une vertèbre endommagée. Une chute à ski me pousse à retarder mon départ. L'orthopédiste me dira lundi quand il est raisonnable de partir. Nous verrons.

Once upon a time....
there was a little Jack-Russel puppy that was found in the south of Spain by some German animal welfare acivists... all by herself. So they took care of the little dog, fed her and found a new family for her where she could live. The only problem: the family lived in Husum in the very north of Germany.

So it happe...

So I got up and went to prep the bike partially: had breakfast, cleared the room (my roomate had already left for her exam - I never wished her good luck, oh well) Had some more breakfast. While I ate I scanned the map - there was a road leqding south down the bank of the Maas river, and I should be able to keep basically south all the way after...

Okay so its been a few days since the last update but each day has been written as I go so they should read as individual episodes. Also, apologies if there are loads of typos in the next few updates as this keyboard is all weird: AZERTY? What's that about?

I left the hostel and got the bike, riding it unloaded was weird. I headed back to the narrow shopping streets which were busy with shoppers and had a generally friendly feel to them. Returning to the tourist information I was directed to the station and a bikeshop that is open til midnight (this is because bike shops are often merged with manne...

Wednesday Sept 16 8:23 AM

So I am sitting in my first class at school now. It's a German class. The students are supposed to be reading a story and I am trying to type very quietly…

I was busy yesterday. Well the day before yesterday I went to an office in Aachen like city hall and registered myself and my address . It was th...

11:15 AM Sept 7 2009

Hi all. I am on the train now on my way to Cologne for my Fulbright Orientation. I should be there in about an hour. I am excited to meet other Americans there. There are 140 of us, and Nil told me that they divide us according to proximity, so I should meet/be roomed with someone who lives in or close to Aachen. Will...

Fri Sept 4 9AM

Hi everyone!

Well I made it to Germany! I am currently on the train from Dusseldorf to Aachen. It is 3:30AM Indiana time and 9:30AM Germany time. Needless to say, I am pretty tired, but I am going to keep kickin until I get to a place to set down my bags and relax.

The flight was actually pretty painless. I h...

The last stop on our 5 day excursion was to Aachen, Germany. We didn't spend too much time here. We got there and immediately went on a tour of the cathedral there. We got to see both the cathedral and the cathedral treasury, which has many interesting religious artifacts from the past. Some of the stuff was really cool, plus we had a great tour...

The first allied crossing of the Rhine River into Germany itself. Operation Market Garden was a joint effort of US and British Airborne units that nearly ended in disaster. This is where I saw the first of the concrete bunkers and antitank defensive barriers (dragons' teeth) that were part of the Siegfried and Maginot Lines. Useless fortificatio...