Nikko Hotel Düsseldorf

... which was nice because typically we don't exchange more than 2 sentences in a day. Sitting down with all of the "members" of the household is always a fun lingual experience. Carla speaks Italian to me and I speak English back, yet we typically understand each other fine. Isidoro speaks to me in several languages and I only understand him when he speaks in German but I still have a hard time responding in anything but ...

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... grass I've ever seen. It was the most idyllic landscape I'd ever seen.
Once reaching Westport and joyously reuniting with Jeff and Sarah, we drove to Sarah's house (it took me a while to get used to sitting on the wrong side of the road. The wild Irish driving style did nothing to assuage my nerves). I was further astounded. Sarah's house is a huge, rambling, stone structure. It is hundreds of years old and covered in ivy. On one of the walls inside, there is a ...

Another early start for our walking tour of Cologne. We started at the ship and walked through the Old Town to the cathedral. The Old Town isn’t really old. It was completely destroyed during WWII. It was slowly rebuilt to look like the original. The cathedral was badly damaged during the bombing but the structure remained standing. The construction of the cathedral was started in 1248 but not finished until 1880. At ...

... visited baby Jesus. The cathedral took over 600 years to complete. Its twin towers used to help guide allied pilots on their bombing raids in WWII. Unfortunately the cathedral was damaged during WWII.

The cathedral was huge and inspiring. Its high vaulted ceilings held in place by flying buttresses, along with the beautiful stained glass windows, left me ...

... gemacht, sehr beeindruckend. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sS6FbTD Duo Natürlich hat auch die Unterhaltungsindustrie in Köln mit den Gästen ein bisschen Geld verdient. Wobei eindringlich vor Björn Kleinhenz gewarnt werden muss (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziHwQ7U ...

... my Oma's father had lived in. We got some pictures for Oma and next time I think we're going to her house. When I got back to Dusseldorf I decided to switch trains at the Hauptbanhof (main station) and got to witness a huge free concert going on in the middle of the station. This was pretty amazing and I was really regretting not having a camera, but hopefully I'll have other opportunities. I did manage to get some pictures of the castle and the bridge so I will try to post them soon.

Today I got up "super early" after watching some movies with Ruth the previous night. I got to the old center (not far from Ruth's house by subway, about 2 or 3 stops) around 8.15am and did a super quick tour around the old city.

I loved the ancient gothic Cathedral, and walked around it for a good hour or so, taking lots of pictures and what not. Beautiful stained windows, paintings, statues, and all around good ...

... you must be either deaf or dumb so not only did I get yelled at, I also got shortchanged which sort of sucked. Fortunately though, I had a much better day yesterday...or maybe it was this morning.
Last night my friend, Ashley, came from Luxembourg to visit me and we ended up going out "shopping" which turned out to be a good night of bar hopping. The bars in Germany are awesome and the beer is pretty great also. We found several good ...

Welcome to the land of little tiny countries and little tiny cars. Yes, Nicole and I are now travelling around Europe, where it is possible to visit four countries in less than a week. And we have. Well, not exactly... we only trained through Belgium, but still. So, back to where it all began. Actually, for a moment let's venture all the way back to the crazy land of Asia. I had a fabulous end to my visit with Jill and Shane and leaving came much too quickly ...