Peregrination
I'M GOING TO GERMANY!
And I've never been before. Frankfurt to be specific, and only for about 36 hours but you take what you can get. Flights were 1p each way (with taxes total comes to £20) and I've got a couch to crash on. How could I say no?
I don't speak two words of German but I'm told I'll be fine. Gutentag. Wait... no, tot ziens! Wait.... no, auf wiedersehen. Ah, thank goodness for that annoying song from The Sound of Music.
And I've never been before. Frankfurt to be specific, and only for about 36 hours but you take what you can get. Flights were 1p each way (with taxes total comes to £20) and I've got a couch to crash on. How could I say no?
I don't speak two words of German but I'm told I'll be fine. Gutentag. Wait... no, tot ziens! Wait.... no, auf wiedersehen. Ah, thank goodness for that annoying song from The Sound of Music.
Frankfurt is a good city, if you are flying with RyanAir though beware, it probably takes more time to drive from Hahn (or Frankfurt Hahn as they like to say), than it takes to fly from London to Germany.
Have a good one.
Rich.
Posted by coops | 8:10 pm, September 22, 2005
i actually have to say that you're paying too much for your plane ticket to frankfurt. I'll be curious you're opinion of it, but in my euro travels, that's the worst city i've visited.
anyway, stay far away from the hauptbahnhof -- the freaks really come out there at night.
rob
Posted by Anonymous | 9:50 pm, September 22, 2005
Do phd students make good money in Europe that they can go on random weekend trips to other countries? I know a particular grad student here in the good ole' US of A that doesn't have enough money to get to Delaware.
-SourKraut
Posted by Anonymous | 8:41 pm, September 23, 2005
With fares like you find at www.ryanair.com, it's cheaper to fly from London to Frankfurt than it is to take a bus to the local supermarket.
Posted by Anonymous | 3:23 pm, September 24, 2005
Haha .. exciting stuff ahead of you! I hope you will have fun and who knows, you might even learn a few more words of German while you are there. Please spill the beans upon your return.
Posted by Astrid | 10:03 pm, September 25, 2005
"ich ein beirliner"
(i think that's spelled right)
-sissy
Posted by Anonymous | 12:28 am, September 27, 2005
"Ich bin ein Berliner" is what Kennedy said, when he announced to Germany that he was a doughnut.
"Ich bin Berliner" would have been better, but nowhere near as amusing.
Posted by Anonymous | 7:15 am, September 27, 2005
For God's sake don't mention the war.
Posted by Ron Lyre | 11:01 pm, September 27, 2005