Category Archives: Germany

Trains, Boats and Marzipan

Sun, 16 March, 2008 – 11:32 PM MDT

On the Saturday we visited an old Russian U-Boat that somehow a German had ended up buying. It was interesting to do a tour of it and see the miserable conditions that Russian Seamen had in the 70’s and 80’s. After climbing through the bowels of the ship for a while we went to the [...]

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Hamburger in Hamburg

Fri, 14 March, 2008 – 11:35 PM MDT

This Friday Susan was delivering a training course in Germany so I took a couple of days to be with her. Susan arrived the day before me, she had a shocker of a landing and then somehow ended up outside the terminal without her luggage. Also to top matters off her Taxi driver was so [...]

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Thawing out after Germany

Tue, 1 March, 2005 – 8:27 PM MST

Hi we got back from Berlin today.
Had a fab time visiting the Berlin Story, which gave a good history of WWI and WWII and some information about the Berlin Wall.
We then went to the Judiches Museum which was a really abstract musem but is the biggest Museum in Europe.
The highlight was probably CheckPoint Charlie and [...]

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Guten Tag from Brrrrrlin

Sun, 27 February, 2005 – 10:16 PM MST

Hi from -5 degree Berlin.
We had a great day traveling around the icey German capital today. I´m probably going to make this short as I´m typing this on a German key board in the hotel lobby and I keep missing the ´y´ key.
First today we checked out a German market and looked at all the [...]

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Off to Berlin tomorrow

Fri, 25 February, 2005 – 9:34 PM MST

Susan went down the high street to buy a warmer beanie and scarf… yeap we are of to Berlin tomorrow.
With the temperature between -2°C and -9°C I think her new hat could be a good investment. Tonight I’m going to type up the itinerary, which Susan is trying to steal form me as we speak.
Oh [...]

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