Parkhotel Bad Homburg

... facilities.
I'll know where I'm going instinctively.
Like a thief who must know every corner, every air duct, every hallway, every locked door, every personnel station, every inch of possible ground to be learned via online airport mapping systems.
This is how I will wake up and move myself onward.
From a drunk and Valium based slumber I will awake in Germany, a country which I have never visited nor ...

Again it seems to be an escape from the inevitable. But somehow I actually think it's way more than that.

Why do I think that? I'm sure you are wondering what special thing happened at the end of my last entry in the first world trip ...

It was sooooo cold in Frankfurt, we didn't want to spend much time here since we had no winter clothing. WE got in late, went to our hotel, then back to the airport to get our flight to Bangkok moved up. We though it would be at 8 that night, but they managed to get us on the next flight out, which was pretty much within the hour. Woohooo! I also kept speaking Italian in Germany... so confused with all the languages.

... of Sulzbach, which was about twenty minutes outside of Frankfurt. We had a great dinner of warm, German soups and Jagerschnitzel at a local restaurant called Die Linde, and when you have dinner in the state of Hesse in early October, that means one thing – Apfelwein. Apple wine is a local specialty. It is served pure and cut with either sparkling water or Sprite, and the apfelwein we drank at Die Linde was actually made by a family friend of ...

... paikkani vieressä oli tyhjä paikka, mikä lisäsi vapaan tilan tuntua ja tarjosi oivan paikan kasata ruokailun aikana syntyneet jätteet. Penkit olivat varustettu pienillä viihdekeskuksilla (näyttö edessä olevassa selkänojassa ja ohjain istuimen käsinojassa), niinkuin asiaan kuuluukin. Viihdekeskuksesta löytyi muutamia leffoja ja sekalaista musiikkia. Näillä paikoilla kelpasi kyllä istua seuraavat 12 tuntia.

Pian nousun jälkeen eteemme tuotiin herkulliset ruoat - minulle kanaa ja ...

... Munich ended up getting delayed not once, not twice, but THREE TIMES so that by the time we took off, I had missed my connecting flight to Naples. Sigh. Rebecca and I had previously decided that once in Munich, if I missed the evening flight that is, I should try and get on the first flight to Naples the following morning for Rebecca would be on that flight and we could then be together. Good plan! Okay, so I got to Munich airport at 20:30 and then ...

... a couple more things before going to bed. My last night in Essen.
Sunday I woke up and finalised my packing. I called Rafael's room just incase he wanted to come too, but he was not feeling too well. I went to say good-bye and just managed to catch the tram with Annabel. The train ride to Cologne was PACKED with people in costume, and most of them were drinking on the way there. Somehow on the train my mobile phone disappeared. It could have been ...

... isn't happening with him getting home at midnight and his wife being asleep, and him being asleep when she gets up in the morning. Needless to say, he's thinking about a career move! We take off on time. The meal is slung within the first two hours. Chicken and lima beans! The pill takes effect. I sleep for four hours and awaken in time for the meager breakfast snack. Darn! One more showing of "Over the Hedge" on an airline, and once again I sleep through it. My life is ...

I've been in Frankfurt several times, mostly checking out the gift show in my capacity as a trade show geek in general, promoter of my frog line in particular. So I know the town a bit. But this time we merely pass through, in the middle of the night, right through the center ...

... his reaction to the card was to wonder "Was ist das?" The Jugendgästehaus at Offenbach is tucked away in a quiet street called Am Waldschwimmbad, which means "At the swimming pool in the woods". There were no foreign tourists and few locals. The price was 76 DM a double, rock-bottom for Germany, but a bit of a shock after Thailand and Indonesia. We managed to phone ahead to Stuttgart which was useful as the place we intended to stay (another Jugendgästhaus) is full ...