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Sunday, July 31, 2005
Can't keep away from Germany
Well, we ate breakfast at the doner kabob place again. That seems to be the staple cheapo food over here, so I am getting used to it :)
I tried to look for plane tickets to Rome and couldn't find much, so I just looked into Eurail stuff. Couldn't find much on the internet. It turns out that you have to be a non-EU citizen and have to buy it in person or wait a long time for them to mail you stuff. And there are only a few places in each country where you can buy eurail stuff. Luckily, one of them is the Schipol Airport station, so I went and bought a ticket immediately before checking in for my flight (hoping that I had time). I bought it for 3 countries: Germany, Switzerland, and Italy and it is good for any 5 days of travel within the next 2 months. Then I went to check in for my flight and the self-service wouldn't work for me and I got scared. Then I waited in line only to be told, we don't have a seat for you, but go and see if we can squeeze you in somewhere. That wasn't too reassuring, but I went to go stand in the more lines. Well, thankfully they squeezed me in and I made it to Nurmberg! Doug was waiting there when I exited the terminal.
Then Jen drove us out of the airport and I found myself on the wonderful autobahn! I felt a little less special when I figured out that the autobahn was not a single road, but the name of the whole freeway system in Germany. But we went through a stretch with no speed limit and I got Jen to hit 100 (proof below), except that they call that 160kph here :) Doug found the time to get excited in between studying his flash cards in the back seat.
We stopped in Vilseck and ate some good pizza. I had mine with tuna, artichokes, and mushrooms on it just to be weird and it was actually pretty good. The tuna smell also helped out when confronting the attack cat they have, aptly named Kat. She gets a bit wild sometimes, but fun to play with nonetheless.
I took a nap on their couch and then woke up to a dark 3 story house at 1am, so I went upstairs and played with their computer stuff so that I can blog here too now :) Tomorrow I will look at the calendar that Jen has planned out and see what we want to do.
I will leave with you some shots of Kat during her favorite game, Keep Away. Description: Jen and Doug pass the sock back forth above Kat's head. Hilarity ensues.
I tried to look for plane tickets to Rome and couldn't find much, so I just looked into Eurail stuff. Couldn't find much on the internet. It turns out that you have to be a non-EU citizen and have to buy it in person or wait a long time for them to mail you stuff. And there are only a few places in each country where you can buy eurail stuff. Luckily, one of them is the Schipol Airport station, so I went and bought a ticket immediately before checking in for my flight (hoping that I had time). I bought it for 3 countries: Germany, Switzerland, and Italy and it is good for any 5 days of travel within the next 2 months. Then I went to check in for my flight and the self-service wouldn't work for me and I got scared. Then I waited in line only to be told, we don't have a seat for you, but go and see if we can squeeze you in somewhere. That wasn't too reassuring, but I went to go stand in the more lines. Well, thankfully they squeezed me in and I made it to Nurmberg! Doug was waiting there when I exited the terminal.
Then Jen drove us out of the airport and I found myself on the wonderful autobahn! I felt a little less special when I figured out that the autobahn was not a single road, but the name of the whole freeway system in Germany. But we went through a stretch with no speed limit and I got Jen to hit 100 (proof below), except that they call that 160kph here :) Doug found the time to get excited in between studying his flash cards in the back seat.
We stopped in Vilseck and ate some good pizza. I had mine with tuna, artichokes, and mushrooms on it just to be weird and it was actually pretty good. The tuna smell also helped out when confronting the attack cat they have, aptly named Kat. She gets a bit wild sometimes, but fun to play with nonetheless.
I took a nap on their couch and then woke up to a dark 3 story house at 1am, so I went upstairs and played with their computer stuff so that I can blog here too now :) Tomorrow I will look at the calendar that Jen has planned out and see what we want to do.
I will leave with you some shots of Kat during her favorite game, Keep Away. Description: Jen and Doug pass the sock back forth above Kat's head. Hilarity ensues.
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