Category Archives: Germany

Deep in the Black Forest

Greetings from Freiburg, Germany. I arrived here yesterday after a five hour car ride from Roland, a software engineer, from Munich. I was going to catch the ride by hitchhiking (or “autostop”, as most of the Europeans call it) but … Continue reading

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Oktoberfest… and then some

Well, I survived! Jen and I had a super time in the HB tent at Oktoberfest in Munich. Don’t worry Mom and Dad – we didn’t drink too much. Mostly we had just loads of fun. At one time our … Continue reading

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Oktoberfest!

I finally made it to Munich! Jen and I arrived Friday night at Glenn and Silvia’s home at around 8:00pm. The thing is, though – we left Paris Thursday night at midnight. So it took just about 20 hours to … Continue reading

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Heidelberg

Hello from Heidelberg! I

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“Cowboy Jim from Texas”

People (in Germany, anyway) keep telling me there is a children

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Bremen to L

Welcome to all my new visitors from my eBay auction! Pull up a chair and stay for a while! A few days ago I had planned to go to Hannover. Somehow I ended up instead going to Heide then Bremen … Continue reading

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Hannover or Heide?

Question: How does one intending to go to Hannover and end up going the complete opposite direction to Heide? Answer: That

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Hitch and hike (continued)

Ok, if you haven

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Rainy days are here to stay

The saying here in Germany (at least in the southern, Bavarian part of Germany) they have a saying that goes “April, April. Er wei

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“Tear down that wall”

I finally saw what

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