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Unusual Hotel Rooms: Coffin, Flying Beds, Grandma Rooms?
Blog: PassportChop.com Travel Blog - Reviews, Travel Experiences - 30 August 2009
Berlin Propeller Island City Lodge Unique Hotel Rooms Have you wondered what is it like to sleep in a coffin? Well perhaps not But this Berlin hotel can offer you this experience as well as many other unique experiences e.g.
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7 best museums for torture and genocide
Blog: 99 + 1 countries - 25 August 2009
1. Kriminalmuseum, Große Sperlgasse 24, Vienna, AustriaThis small private crime museum hides one true gem in its basement: A drawing dating back to the Middle Ages that displays the most extraordinary method of torturing women in the otherwise rather repetitive tradition of hunting witches. The drawing represents a chair that combines the best of electric chair and toilet seat engineering, used to holding suspected witches fast while lighting up their pubic hair.
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5 bars where to get wasted this Saturday
Blog: 99 + 1 countries - 22 August 2009
1. Rock Bar Mother, Shinjuku, Tokyo, JapanA tiny bar with larger than life character. The bar functions on two principles: darkness and songs on demand.
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New beergeek.TV Episode – Three Cities, Three Styles
Blog: thebeergeek.com - 18 August 2009
“Three Cities, Three Styles” is the latest episode of One Pint at a Time. We are firm believers in beer needing to be tried in context of its culture. “Three Cities, Three Styles” was born out of this belief. We visited three German cities, Dortmund, Düsseldorf and Cologne, that each has it’s own unique style of [...]
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Guest Post! Berlin With Baby…
Blog: Have Baby Will Travel - 17 August 2009
I’m delighted to put up our very first guest post! Tracey went to Germany with her husband and baby boy. They rented an apartment for part of their stay, and they had a wonderful time. Thanks so much for sharing your trip with us, Tracey! Berlin like a Berliner Last year my husband and I took a trip to [...]
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Been There, Done That, and Loved Every Single Minute of It-Part I, Europe
Blog: EZGuler - 15 August 2009
I would be a terrible host if I didn't offer my guests pieces that look and sound appealing, so I have decided, with the coaxing of my beloved JT, to abandon the "Top Ten" title for something with more...pizzaz! There must be other words to describe these compact, efficient lists without having to resort to the boring, age-old "Top Ten List" apendage. Plus, what if I want to offer more than just 10? So here I go, with photographic lists of places and events I feel are worth putting the effort and time into capturing while you are traveling.
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Joga bonito
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 12 August 2009
I did indeed head back over to ‘Hoolywood’ though it wasn’t great really. There are quite a lot of these English terrace fashion inspired shops on the continent and some are excellent with bargains galore, this one had it’s own Hoolywood bumbags though so I’ll say no more. Amongst the dross there was some good clobber [...]
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Send the Bitburger back
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 11 August 2009
I finally had a decent kip last night and consequetly didn’t wake up until after 11 meaning I’d missed brekkie, drataster. This meant that my lunch plans were in limbo also, you see the main advantage of your average continental breakfast is that it makes excellent loot for meals to yet follow. Try stuffing a [...]
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British Home Championship
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 10 August 2009
Today has been relatively uneventful, mostly hostel bound. I’ve been sorting all my legacy posts tags out for this Blogsherpa thing so that took a fair while. After that I got talking (about fantasy footy) to these 3 lads from Glasgow and spent most of the day with them. These fellas were getting an over-night train [...]
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There was a checkpoint Charlie
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 8 August 2009
The Hostel (Pfefferbett Hostel) I’m in is ace in every way except there is no kitchen which is a bit of a pain when I’m here for 4 nights. So I had a quality salami pizza last night at a little gaff called La Cucina in the Pfefferbett area. The thing was huge and bloody [...]
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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 [...]
