In the morning I took subway ride a ways north to a town called Kaiserswerth (kaisers – vare – t). There is a neat historical totally ruined 1000 year old remnants of an old castle called Kaiserpfalz. It’s not super huge and amazing but it was cool. Just neat ruins on the Rhine. There were … More Getting Delayed By Hitler
Today I really didn’t do much but walk around and explore. Though I did go to AquaZoo far in the North of the city, a big aquarium with lots of displays. Or so I thought. Acccording to my research it was closed for refurbishment until Spring 2015. And I found out when I got there…it … More Düsseldorf, Part II
Damn these trains in western Germany cant’t do anything right. In total truth, at least the ones I have been on have been delayed more often than not, not just showing up 30 seconds late, I mean 5, 10 and sometimes even 20 mintes late. More or less was the case for me today, the … More The City Whose Name Everybody Loves
Theme park day 2. This time at Phantasialand land, in the town of Brühl, a short distance south of Cologne. It was another very fun, very exciting ‘freizeit park’ or, freetime park. This one also broken up into geographic locations…more or less. Each land has a resident dragon character representing it, from Schneck of the … More Phantasialand
A walking day in Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (the old Roman name for Cologne). It started with where I left off yesterday saying I would come back to something morbid, which I certainly did. A church, St. Ursula’s Church. What’s so creepy about this church? The Golden Chamber, a room with lots of gold. What’s … More Radioactive Bio-Mechanical Zombie Pirate Amputees
So far my travels have taken me from Berlin to Dresden to Leipzig to Nuremberg to Rothenburg to Munich to Mittenwald to Salzburg to Berchtesgaden to Stuttgart to Gengenbach to Heidelberg to Frankfurt, and today I add another. Took the morning train today to the not too far away city of Köln, known in the … More Of Churches And Chocolate…
So, today was in my view pretty unique. As my family is half German, I decided shortly before my trip how cool it would be to visit the town my ancestors came from. About 55 miles west of Frankfurt lies the itty bitty town of Spabrücken, in the German state of Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate for all … More Homeland, Germany
**For some reason the top 2 posts uploaded out of order. This was my first day in Frankfurt. And the post below it is the one from today. I am going to add pictures from Heidelberg tomorrow since my picture backup is complete.** Headed out of Heidelberg after only a day to the business and … More Jon In Frankfurt
After my sweet free breakfast I walked a ways to the Senckenburg Museum of Natural History…and I guess more or less recent history. Though on the way I passed a strange very tall ‘2d’ statue of a man holding and swinging his hammer (the arm does slowly swing up and down). I had seen a … More The Hero Of Time, And A Unicorn Bird
Du Stadt am ehren Reich. Am Neckar und am Rhein, kein andere kommt dir gleich. The first lines of an old song praising the beauty of Heidelberg, my short pit stop after my adventures in Gengenbach and Europa Park. It is a pretty town located on a river between 2 hills. The main draw of … More Alt Heidelberg du feine…
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