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Tell me about the lady boys
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 8 August 2009
The Melbourne lad (Rhaun) from my room came with me to the FC St. Pauli stadium for the game last night. By the time we got there the 2nd half had already started so it was too late to get in but we watched the rest of it in a pub built into the ground. [...]
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John, St. Pauli, George and Ringo
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 7 August 2009
I had a bit of interesting news today. If I say Blogsherpa to you, you will probably think I’m back on the Wuppertal (stop it!!) path of sillyness but that would not be the case. Blogsherpa is a relatively new (I think it’s still in beta) system that Lonely Planet have put in place to [...]
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Up north to Hamburg we go
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 6 August 2009
Wuppertal I say to you and Wuppertal once more Sirs. Wuppertal is where I’m just passing through on the train as I write today’s entry of STBB. Amazingly the predictive text on my phone offered up Wuppertal when I was only a Wupp in, that’s quite the dictionary. Anyway enough of all this Wuppertal wubbish. [...]
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Curry pasta
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 5 August 2009
This hostel is miles better and more in tune with the hostelling experience, the last gaff was too instituionalised. I’m going to try and avoid HI hostels on the whole as although some have been good plenty of them don’t have fun very high on the agenda. This place does a half litre bottle of [...]
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Aujourd’hui, je suis tres fatigue
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 4 August 2009
I’m just on the 11:17 train to Cologne. Well not exactly, I’ll actually be on 3 trains to get there for around an hour each with maybe 20 minutes waiting for the change each time. It was just under 50 Euros which I suppose isn’t that bad but regular hits like that aren’t great for [...]
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Return of the Red Menace: More Communist-Era Relics
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 30 July 2009
Last week I began counting down the the top ten communist relics I've visited in my travels through Central and Eastern Europe, complete with images (and bonus silly captions!).We're up to the really big structures now. Who will come in at number one? Let the gender-bending drug-enhanced socialist games commence!
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Oh de Cologne
Blog: thebeergeek.com - 30 July 2009
A short distance down the Rhein from Düsseldorf is Köln, our last beer style city of the trip. This was our third time to Germany’s oldest city, but our first time really exploring beyond the Dom, the dominant landmark of the city. Köln is the home of Kölsch, another top fermented and lagered German beer. Köln [...]
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Seems Like Alt Times
Blog: thebeergeek.com - 26 July 2009
After spending two days in Düsseldorf, I am somewhat embarrassed that this was our first visit to the home of Altbier. From the moment we entered our first brewery, we realized that this city’s beer culture was something special. After a short train ride from Dortmund, we deposited our bags in the hotel room and were [...]
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A Tale of One City
Blog: thebeergeek.com - 24 July 2009
Curiosity brought us to Dortmund, the first stop on our “Cities with a Beer Style” tour. Dortmund is the home of Dortmunder Export, a style that is disappearing. Dortmund was once a steel and coal town and Export was the beer of the workers. In the 1970s-80s, these industries died and the jobs along [...]
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Back in Munich
Blog: thebeergeek.com - 23 July 2009
Another long (and fortunately) uneventful day of travel landed us in our favorite beer city, Munich. We used our two days in the Bavarian capitol to recover from jet lag before starting our beer adventures. We arrived at our hotel in the city center and had just enough time to take a quick shower before jumping [...]
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Sidetracked! Mitteralterfest at Burg Lichtenberg
Blog: Family Friendly Hotel, Resort, Suite Reviews: Travel Savvy Mom » blog - 20 July 2009
Burg Lichtenberg, in Kusel, Germany (also known to the Americans in this area as "Kusel Castle"), is the largest castle ruin in the country of Germany.
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Inspired by the Anne Frank Museum in Berlin
Blog: Heather on her travels - 6 July 2009
Our visit to the Anne Frank Museum in Berlin came as a happy chance, when you stumble across something interesting and decide to follow your instincts. We had been planning to make an early start to beat the queues at the Reichstag Dome, but walking past the museum we spotted the sign and as our [...]
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Berlin: 5 Family Favorites
Blog: Family Friendly Hotel, Resort, Suite Reviews: Travel Savvy Mom » blog - 30 June 2009
This year is the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's demise and the city is popping with all kinds of great deals, events and nightlife.
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How to get from Schönefeld airport into Berlin
Blog: Heather on her travels - 29 June 2009
If you’re visiting Berlin and want to know how to get from Schönefeld airport, into the heart of Berlin, it’s quick and easy by train. The train station is only 5-10 minutes walk from the Arrivals terminal and from there, you’re straight on the train into the city in around 45 minutes. As you come from [...]
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we (heart) frankfurt
Blog: where the wild things are - 18 June 2009
After our stint in the Jungfrau region.. which was amazing.. we travelled the 26 hours to Veszprem Hungary, (you say Impossible! but i say: 2hours to Basel, an additional 2hours to Zurich, followed by 8hours in zurich, then 12hours by train to Budapest, and finally one metro, one regional train and 3 busses to Veroslöd.. plus some walking, as they drop you on the hiway.) Needless to say, i have never been more thrilled to take a shower. We were there at Jesses village of the gypsies for two days before moving on to Frankfurt. It was unreal.. a very humbling experience.
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Ten things to do in Hamburg
Blog: velvet escape's blog - 17 June 2009
Hamburg is Germany’s second largest city (after Berlin) and is its main port. It’s a very cosmopolitan city with a small historic section (Altstadt) – most of the city was destroyed during the Second World War) – and large portions that have been redeveloped. The city is hemmed in by two lakes (the Binnenalster and [...]
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A cool street-art hangout at Kunsthaus Tacheles - in Berlin
Blog: Heather on her travels - 7 June 2009
We were recommended to visit Tacheles by some Berlin locals for the authentic Berlin experience. They suggested we go up to the cafe and look down on the half buried airplane at the back. Apparently we’d recognise it because it was the only grotty, run down building in a neighbourhood where everything else had been renovated. The [...]
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In Freiburg city, it’s clean and pretty
Blog: Cities for People - 30 May 2009
Said the German poet Johann Peter Hebel many years ago. But why? I don’t know, but I do know that Johann would probably say exactly the same thing today. Freiburg gets called Green City Freiburg, Solar City Freiburg and Sustainable City Freiburg by many commentators. Freiburg – A City for People What makes Freiburg a city for people? [...]
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Friday photo - the queue for the view at the Reichstag in Berlin
Blog: Heather on her travels - 29 May 2009
Everyone visiting Berlin wants to see the glass dome of the Reichstag or German parliament building, designed by Sir Norman Foster. A ramp winds up to the top, where you get a fantastic view over the city as well as down to the parliament chamber below. Or so I’m told… Sadly, the view from the dome was not [...]
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Checkpoint Charlie and other Berlin Wall stories
Blog: Heather on her travels - 17 May 2009
On our rickshaw tour of the sights of Berlin we briefly took in a stop at Checkpoint Charlie. The Berlin half-marathon was in full swing and it was a little incongruous to see reconstructed guardhouse with actors in uniform waiting to have their phograph taken with you for 1€, with runners streaming past them on [...]
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See the animals at Berlin Zoo - but Bristol Zoo’s better
Blog: Heather on her travels - 7 May 2009
Our visit to Berlin zoo was not top of my agenda on our recent trip to Berlin. I had planned a cycle ride through the Tiergarten park to see the lovely Schloss Charlottenburg palace, but my daughter had other ideas. She was keen to see the zoo, although it may have been because she’d heard that it was [...]
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Budget boutique bliss at Circus Hotel in Berlin
Blog: Heather on her travels - 29 April 2009
Circus Hotel where we stayed in Berlin was a real find for me and I’d recommend it to anyone. It’s full of contemporary charm, with warm and friendly staff, plenty of personal little touches and best of all it won’t break the bank. I was looking for an apartment within a hostel or hotel for the [...]
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Blue glass reflections at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial church in Berlin
Blog: Heather on her travels - 23 April 2009
The Kaiser Wilhelm memorial church must easily be the most photogenic church in Berlin with it’s fabulous blue glass walls and colourful mosaics. It’s a chance for a quiet retreat from the in-your-face retail overload on busy Kurfürstendamm with the street-performers and fast-food stalls outside. The church was built in the 1890s and in the war was all [...]
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Eat on the street in Berlin
Blog: Heather on her travels - 20 April 2009
In Berlin there is street-food to be found at all the major tourist hot-spots. When you’re about town sightseeing, the best thing is to refuel en route, then collapse in a cafe when you run out of energy. We found that the underpasses of the larger stations such as Alexanderplatz were also a good place to [...]
