Minotel Reichel's Parkhotel Bad Windsheim

Ahh… another week complete… another weekend to begin…



This week has been one of the hardest since I got here. It is about mid semester and it seems like tensions are running high with everyone. I guess that the large amount of traveling that I'm doing is taking a toll on my body, and my mind too. There is just so much to be done, and only spending 50% of my time at home (in Regensburg) doesn’t quite give me enough time for it. It has also hit me that I ...

... between Budapest and Amsterdam.
We’re now traveling on the Main River. We’ve seen many swans and ducks on the river and the hills have many vineyards. After lunch we docked at Wurzburg , another picturesque town with many church spires and a fortress on the hill. The river is crossed by another old stone bridge with large statues of Bishop Princes and saints lining the sides of the bridge.

Today, right after breakfast, we crossed the European Continental Divide. We went into a lock that dropped us down 81 ft. At the bottom it was, as our tour guide said, like being a spider in a bathtub with concrete walls rising up just inches from the sides of the ship.
We docked at ...

... There was even an ex hab on the team (Andre Nasredine) who scored a goal for us! To make the night even better we won 6-2 with some awesome goals and awesome saves!

Very happy with our decision to return to Nuremburg for the hockey game we left the following morning for Vienna. It was a long trip so we cut it in half and spent a night in Linz, Austria. Another gorgeous place to pass right on through!

... has to offer. We bought a spatula (scrambled eggs) and some fruits!

So we have had brautwurst and currywurst and everywurst possible in the past few days! We decided to splurge and went to a snazzy Chinese restaurant for supper! This is only worth mentioning because I ate the biggest most delicious eggroll I have ever had ever!

We will be coming back to Nuremberg but for now on to Stuttgart!!!!

... be almost an entire day, because the bus broke down twice.

Then, there was a rockslide...so we got to the hotel at night, crashed and left again for our service project yesterday.
We had to pull huge plants out of the ground because they were killing hte indiginous ones.

Then more traffic and more bus.

Now Im in a podunk hotel with no internet..except a weird cafe slash casino.

losing service. more later!

... I promise to do everything in my power to ensure that remembrance of the events of 9 November 1938 will be kept alive in Bad Windsheim. Thank you and Shalom." To pass a place at a moment of historical significance is a gift. To share that moment with people of character, intellect and heart is an event never to be forgotten. I look forward to seeing you again. Tschuss my friends. A big thank you to Randy for his contribution to the album pictures.

... know, I'm on a team B assignment which means I'm flying solo. No laughing Tracey, Bob, or Chuck. Cloistered is the perfect word. So here I am, one week later settled in an historic Franconian building owned and run by the same family for 250 years in a town that has been here over 800 years. I just turned off the one English speaking channel on my television, how many times can you hear that the economy is tanking it around the world? I'm listening to Anita Baker ...

Today I decided to take a bicycle and ride into downtown Bad Windseim. So I packed a map and camera, took the baby seat of my mother's bike (harder to do than I thought), and set off. I had no destination in mind. I just wanted to ride around, see what I could see, and maybe talk to a local or two. One of the best ways to tour a small town in my opinion. Let's talk about the boring stuff for a moment.. A bit of information on ...

Here I am finally at my family's home in Bad Windsheim, Bavaria, Germany. We don't plan on doing anything today because my jet lag is horrible. We just finished exchanging Christmas gifts and I think for the rest of the day I will just lazy around. I wish I had had my camera for the drive from the airport because there were many things to take pictures of. We drove by lots of lovely German ...