Mercure Hotel Saarbruecken Sud Saarbrücken

... garlic-buttered baguette with cheese, apple-cream crepe with coffee, and pizza. The coffee was mediocre, but I'm picky about my coffee. The bread and crepe were awesome. You can see a photo of them here.

From Ramstein, we all left for an antique store on top of what seemed like a mountain. As we approached the general area, I spied some kind of spire on top of a distant hill. The low-hanging clouds covered the higher sections of the spire, so it gave the appearance of ...

... to deal with Army 'civil servants' over the summer, I've learned that nothing comes easy; there's always some additional little headache you much endure before finally getting what you want. So I had that to look forward to. To get to Housing, I would also have to drive Henry a few rainy kilometers to a different part of Baumholder. It isn't that I don't enjoy Henry; he's fine. It's much more that I ...

... Tracy also bought a beautiful drawing of a dog for her office. I expect we'll go back there. After Luc's, we went to Landstuhl, which you've heard about. From there we went to the third antiques store, Freddie's antiques, in Hutschenhausen. With a name like Freddie's you might expect the store to attract Americans; it does. But the furniture was awesome, if too expensive. There were bookcases, armoires, beds, dressers, etc. with fabulously worked pattens and low-relief ...

... a homecoming.

Here is the photo of me already looking better than 5 days before. The French nurses were excellent in ensuring that any scars resulting from the injuries to my face were minimal.

I was airlifted to Ramstein airbase and then transported by ambulance to Landstuhl.

If I were to describe my treatment there, it would be first ...

This is where the Air Force base is and its only about 7 min away. It's basically a little America here...they have everything from gyms and a pool to a shopping mall. It's really convenient and really nice to have a place to work out and somewhere where I understand what everyone is saying and what's going on...but I'm in Germany! So I am going to try not to come here too often.

So I technically live in Henschtal, but it's easier to say Glan-Münchweiler because its the town next town over and a bit bigger. Henschtal is beautiful! We seriously live in the country and it's such a neat change. The people are really warm and friendly and sadly they all speak English...the Elsner's know everyone and I am quickly meeting all of the neighbors!

(82 miles) We started the day in Luxembourg along the Moselle river and got to a point where Germany was on our left across the river and France was right in front of us. We crossed the river into France and began some pretty good climbs. We then cut into Germany in order to ride back to Forbach which is in France. Our first teaser of ...

Finalement peu de chose. Il suffit de savoir où on veut aller, en avoir le budget (le coût d'un tour du monde est d'environ 10 000 euros/an), des papiers en règle et des vaccins à jour ainsi qu'un sac à dos remplit ...

... small) a lot of people just park on the side of the road.it allso seems there are lots of winerys aroud here. i have tasted the best wine ever here,and im not a wine trinker. there is allso a local castle by the last knight of germany that you can check out, with a hotel for overnight stays.

... went into hysteria when Aloisi slotted the 3rd goal home. After the game, all the Aussies fans stayed in the stadium for the next 30 minutes and just partied, sang and chanted. After that, we all headed down to the town center and partied away, before catching the Aussie Express back to Frankfurt. An absolutely brilliant day... and lets home we can continue the trend over the next 2 weeks!!!!