Sheraton Carlton Nuernberg Nuremberg

Last night after a rousing game of Marco Polo in the pool and short work out, Sheila and I went for a cocktail at the roof bar once again.

This morning we were driven to church by an ex soldier, with the bullet scar to prove it, at warp speed. Mass in the Czech language is a challenge to follow, but with Sheila present, all was good. As our soldier's English was questionable at best, the agreed pick up rendezvous was ...

... We walked down the Weissgepbergasse (with the oldest remaining buildings in the city), we passed the former home of painter Albrecht Durer, we drank some Mokarabia, climbed the castle, found a traditional Bavarian coat for Pam, and then, since Germany is full of Turkish immigrants, I finally had some Turkish street food. After shooting off an email to some extended family in Frankfurt with some initial plans ...

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 don ...

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!

From Munich to Nuremberg is a nice short drive and luckily Germany doesn't use road tolls (They are so efficient they don’t need tolls…hehe)! We chose a nice little campsite just outside the city! After going for a walk we also discovered we were next to the Football (soccer) stadium and the Hockey Arena. On our first night there was a football game and Nuremburgs local team has one hell of a ...

... Erins' room and found her on the bed looking exhausted, she took off her shoes and I knew she was done for the day. We talked for 10 minutes, giving her time to decide what she wanted to do, which was NOT MOVING, and then I went out to explore the city. I walked around the corner and down one of the main streets to the market square. It was very quiet and getting quite dark, so I looked for a place to have a beer, but went out the castle garden at one end ...

... this year I really felt in the mood for Christmas. I did wonder though why the Germans are not really massively FAT! The food looks amazing and I wanted to eat oodles of it!! Left aligned photo tag: Left aligned photo tag: Left aligned photo tag: I spent a few hours meandering around the market and exploring the old city walls before heading back to the hotel for my bags and to the station to take the train to Jena.

Was accosted this afternoon by my neighbour who greeted me with, " As I was going through your bin this afternoon, I found these papers and I thought you might need them!" Hasn't she heard of identity theft? Who goes through people's bins other than tramps, identity fraudsters and Sun reporters?- Here Das Bild is the national sleazy tabloid! Must get my own shredder! But I digress. She handed me the instructions for fitting my ...

... de atras que le creyo y bajamos a comprar un Hot Dog, un Gatorade y una Cerveza. Aprovechamos para ir al banio, caminamos, observamos y regresamos a nuestros lugare a esperar. Veiamos como poco a poco el estadio se iba llenando, hasta no quedar un solo lugar libre, bueno, en realidad quedaron como 10 lugares, 4 a lado de nosotros y 6 enfrente, asi que estabamos MUY comodos. Llego la hora, la entrada de los equipos, las banderas la ovacion a Osvaldo (el portero) la emocion ...