Frankfurt without Äppelvoj this time

[4.8.-5.8. Frankfurt am Main] Going from Straßburg via Saarbrücken to Frankfurt, i met my old pen pal Gosia in the center after i spend some hours by my own, cooking coffee at the waterside, watching an exhibition and walking along the Zeil. Both of us could not remember when i´ve been there the last time, but it must have been 2003 or 04 to one of the Museums-Ufer-Parties... After cooking in Gosias new flat, meeting Lisa and drinking one bottle of red wine it started to rain like hell - so our motivation to go out and find a bar in the rain was not that big. But knowing that i had a 10-hour travel the next day it was maybe a good decision not to drink a jar of Äppler as intended.

"Do you speak english?" - "Non!"

[3.8.-4.8. Straßburg] Since i have written this assignment about earthquakes, fires and whatever else in middleage Strasbourg last year, i wanted to go there and have a look by my own. I was pretty sure, i could find my way through town without a map cause i studied all the old maps in the library to see what was destroyed etc. Well, i was wrong! All i could find were lots of german tourists and some names of the streets i could remember. But Strasbourg is a beautiful town with many small streets apart from the tourist-stream, a nice river (guess what: tourists on boats, like an invasion) and a pretty good U-Marche where they have 22 different kinds of Camembert - welcome to France! On the camping-site however there was this friendly kind of guy, who refused to speak english, when i asked him. But when he was annoyed that i couldn´t understand his french (I still have the "Faix pas tas farouche-Level") he explained it in proper english ...

Bitte klingeln und warten

[31.7.-3.8. Karlsruhe] I should stop starting a voyage without money in my wallet or without taking some food...especially when the train goes the direct way for six or seven hours. But anyway: After one year i went to Karlsruhe again to visit Torben, who got a nice new flat together with his girlfriend (wow, the kitchen is not the living room anymore;). It´s always nice to go to Karlsruhe, but the climate is kind of subtropical, i always need some days to recover after i got out of the train. The change of the flat got us to a new part of town as well, so not "Die Kippe" anymore, but therefore "Die Pinte", which is a pub where you have to ring and the barkeeper brings you to your table and it can happen, that someone is already sitting there - so you have to introduce yourself. Quite a weird but nice idea, especially because the pub has place for only twenty people!

Interrail-Trip, August 2006 (Anfang)

After one month at home, doing some work to get money and sitting the rest of the time in my flat, it was time to leave! The weather was nice, i was bored at home anyway and there was an appointment we made almost half a year before, that we all will meet in Zürich! So i bought myself an Interrail-Ticket (all zones, four weeks, € 385,-).. and began packing my backpack to leave the next day. Pretty nice was the fact, that my danish residence permit was running until the 31st of August, so i was able to drive in Germany for free! That was like the last present from a great year in denmark i guess. Finally i left Kiel the 31st of July in a southward direction, having some good music with me, Jack Kerouacs "The Darma Bums" and a tent (you never know).