Wasn’t I just here? I’m back in Frankfurt after a four-day detour home for my grandfather’s funeral and first few days of shiva. I flew back out last night on the same flight I took last week, same plane, same…
Exhausted in Frankfurt
Last night, I’d attempted to just stay up, since I’d reached that state of exhaustion where I felt that falling asleep at 2:30am would just make things worse when I had to wake up at 4am to catch my flight.…
Rainy Frankfurt
In a sort of non-ironic irony that you might expect to see in an Alanis Morissette lyric, I spent the last 24 hours running around trying to replace money, cards and ID after my wallet was stolen. Yes, that’s right,…
World Cup fever
Well, I’ve come full circle, back to Berlin where the tour started, for its conclusion last night. Wednesday was a long drive from Warsaw, stopping only for a quick lunch at a supermarket that gave a clear picture of how…
Plane rides and grey cities
Welcome to Europe! It took a plane, a train, and an S-bahn, but I’ve arrived at long last. New continent, new time zone, new language barriers to negotiate, and a helluvalot more history. Woohoo! The plane ride from Singapore was…
Rhine Valley
Just a quick update. Back in Germany. Today was another coach day as we drove from Switzerland to St. Goar. We stopped in Heidelberg along the way for lunch and to see some old churches and whatnot. This afternoon we…
Emotional roller-coaster
Visited Mauthausen concentration camp today. Was extremely gut-wrenchingly difficult. I wrote tons in my journal but am going to make this quick, because I’m still processing my thoughts and they’re kind of fuzzy. I guess I’m feeling sort of shell-shocked,…