Stadthotel Kaiserslautern

Here are the promised photos. I am not including photos of our workshop room and wine cellar; they're not that interesting. Excuse the messiness of parts of the house. You all know how trying moving in can be!<br><br>Tracy has left for France to inspect food production plants, so I'm here ...

... lease we decide to move on to another option that Tracy's German secretary had told her about - a converted country house from the 19th century. Unfortunately, I forgot to bring my memory card with me today so that I could upload the photos I've taken. Those will come tomorrow of the next day. For now, I have only four photos for you, each taken at our house.<br><br>Yesterday morning I baked a homemade blueberry pie (with ...

... are popular among ex-patriot Americans and Germans alike. Many of the vendors are German, but some of the patrons are, as well.We walked among the many indoor kiosks for a couple of hours, looking at furniture and art, sampling cheeses, wines, and liqueurs, smelling soaps, etc. At a cheese shop set up by vendors from Holland I tried some hot sauces they had set up for sampling. I spooned a little of each kind on tiny pieces of bread to decide which one I was going to buy. They ...

Meet Henry, my Mercedes-Benz. He's an odd fellow; nice enough, if a little cranky; advanced in years. We don't communicate so well yet, even if we are both obviously making efforts. It's that I can't always read his signs clearly. He lags when I want to move quickly, and when I want to play it safe, he jumps. I never know which button to press to get the reaction I want, and sometime he acts confused. For now, I'm chalking it up to generational and ...

Last Tuesday was to be the day we would move into our little German castle; the day when the dust would every so slightly begin to settle from our transition to military life; the moment in which life would start its crawl toward, quoting W.G. Harding's presidential campaign slogan, "a return to normalcy." Harding didn't deliver on his promise after the war, and neither did the day. The morning started ...

We have been enjoying ourselves here in Germany. We have been able to go on base and get American products. I think Kevin has now eaten the entire bag of Doritos. We haven't really done a lot during the days expect watch movies on the big HD TV, but it has ...

... feel, but the Iranian manager, Hamed, was generous enough to give me free drinkies and eats while I was there - most grateful. On the last morning there I had agreed to help him with some moving of stock to help repay his hospitality, but he went drinking until about 5am the night before, got in a fight and didn't wake up in time. I had to go at 12pm in order to get to Berlin on time, but we didn't meet until 11am. He simply took me to the autobahn and thanked me for the sentiment.

... Not bad, not good, but beggars can't be choosers and if I am thrifty, that can go a long way. Some days passed and I spent more time with Annika (Alex's sister) and we went shopping and to some cafes. On Thursday night, we went to the Nachtschicht again where they had 0.99EUR tequila shots all night. This was great and we also all managed to scam a 10.00EUR voucher on the way into the club, which meant 10 free shots! My bill came to 8.00EUR and ...

... Ticket, 4 matches) that I had for the world cup, I received a voucher for the round of 16 that I would trade in for my ticket, when the results came out with who was playing who. I went to the train station in Kaiserslautern where they had a world cup help desk and asked them where the STADIUM ticket centre was. They put me on a bus, which I thought was a little strange considering that the stadium was five minutes walk away. I figured at the time that this was some sort of ...

... was totally unjustified. Fair enough if they had beaten us 2 - 0 or on penalties but that was unfair...Most of the Australian section just sat in their seats for about 20 minutes, no one could move, we were just pinching ourselves. After such a great game, with a few close call and some great goal keeping we where all over them in the last 30 minutes. But it wasn't to be and that goes with the good and bad ...