Minotel Neuer Loewen Freiburg im Breisgau

... tent was still fairly full, had a band in full swing, happy Germans raising their glasses to prost, and hundreds of chickens and one cow roasting on spits. Our current favorite dance involves several moves, one being the schwim, must learn. Our meals even came with a free beer, which we tried and acknowledge that yes, it is better than American beer, but it's still beer. And neither of us have gotten over not liking beer. It really is too bad ...

... Sonntag haben wir 2 Bäume Zwetschgen geschüttelt und die Dinger - Gott sei Dank zu sechst - 2 1/2 Stunden aufgelesen. Siglinde hat ein Großteil davon zum Schnaps machen abgenommen, den Rest hab ich verteilt und eingefroren.
Gestern war ich auf Betriebsausflug in Ravensburg (Stadtbesichtigung), in Weingarten (Basilika gucken) und in Bad Buchau (Führung vom NABU am Federsee). War ...

It was a quick drive from Nuremberg to Stuttgart so we decided to spend a few nights there. Stuttgart is famous for being the home of Porsche and Mercedes Benz. We decided to visit the Mercedes Benz museum and although Im not a big car person it was very fun seeing the evolution of the car. It was kinda frightening to learn how much involvemnet they had in World War II making planes ...

We attended a big birthday party this weekend in Stuttgart. It was my boyfriend's grandfather's (Opa, as I now know him) 80th birthday. We celebrated with the entire family in a nice little restaurant in a small town near Stuttgart. I have no idea the name of either of those places.

We had some free time to explore Stuttgart on Saturday morning so we went to the Wilhelma Zoological and Botanical Gardens. It is a massive ...

... with the cities almost 900 year old history, its tiny medieval canals and the monumental 13th century cathedral, she soon abandoned her reservations and loved the place. We figured our first stop would be the tourist information centre in the hope of getting a clue of what we were doing. They pointed us in the general direction and gave us a map that the camp site wasn't on. So off we went. We walked for about 20 minutes but ...

Caught a night train from Vienna and arrived in Stuttgardt in the morning. Had a great day wandering and seeing the sights. Yet another map from yet another tourist info place. More statues and old buildings (Boring right? Not by a long shot). Still walking around wide-eyed like kids at Disneyland.

... now. It has sucked though in terms of not getting to go running... Also, I have been trying to deal with Semester at Sea. How frustrating and irrigating they can be at times!! No emails to let me know that I can pre-purchase trips which sucks for me being overseas. So... 10 days after pre-sale began, I was able to purchase trips. However, it gets soooo much better! I was assigned a lottery number. So, I will not even know which trips I successfully got and paid for until 2 ...

... a chance to dry, so even though I tried... I still got cold within an hour...but nothing stops you I guess, so today I decided to just cycle faster, once the climb started I knew I was getting warmer anyways. And that was indeed the case...temperature dropped to 10 degrees, fog and probably 20 metres visibility, I knew we were cycling through a ski field, but couldn't see it...very funny. Average speed up that hill was around 7 kms per hour ...

... tram on their own at lunch time. The entire area feels more like a suburb than a ghetto yet when you talk about it in the central city no one has anything good to say about it. IES gave us way more time to complete all of our tasks on this hunt than needed so my group spent the next 3 hours wandering around the main areas of the city and shopping. I realized that I got very lucky with my dorm. Engelberger is the only dorm in a central location. We can easily walk to all out classes and to ...

... for military purpose and he made clear that we are "standing on the shoulders" of fomer generations of denierrs that have dreamd of such a great alternative to the military service like a FSJ abroad - a visit in the "Haus der Wannsee Konfernz" as well as in a prison of the StaSi and a tour through the fashistic past of Berlin where we always had the luck to enjoy enriching guided tours Besides we (the volunteers) had ...