SeanTerrill.com » france http://seanterrill.com If accidentally read, induce vomiting. Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:13:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Luxembourg http://seanterrill.com/2007/07/15/luxembourg/ http://seanterrill.com/2007/07/15/luxembourg/#comments Sun, 15 Jul 2007 16:33:45 +0000 webmaster http://seanterrill.com/?p=1045 Having been in Eastern Europe, it’s hard even to express just how comforting the rail system is within the Deutsche Bahn’s sphere of influence. I was planning on taking the night train from Munich to Paris, but it was fully booked, so I’m going to spend a few hours in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg [...]]]> Having been in Eastern Europe, it’s hard even to express just how comforting the rail system is within the Deutsche Bahn’s sphere of influence. I was planning on taking the night train from Munich to Paris, but it was fully booked, so I’m going to spend a few hours in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg instead. I should get into Paris early enough to take a walking tour, and without needing a reservation to boot. [I actually spent my last night on the Continent on a park bench in Luxembourg, getting eaten alive by mosquitoes.] Then it’s Brussels, and home. The past few days, essentially killing time, have made me homesick for the first time. So yes, I am looking forward to not living out of a backpack for, oh, the rest of my life.

Party City: The Tent, outside Munich

Party City: The Tent, outside Munich

 
Luxembourg is a great place around which to walk.

Luxembourg is a great place around which to walk.

 
It figures this would be the last thing I saw.

It figures this would be the last thing I saw.

]]> http://seanterrill.com/2007/07/15/luxembourg/feed/ 0 Rhineland http://seanterrill.com/2007/06/02/rhineland/ http://seanterrill.com/2007/06/02/rhineland/#comments Sun, 03 Jun 2007 03:15:57 +0000 webmaster http://seanterrill.com/?p=554 German hostels, it turns out, are basically summer camps. The past two nights we’ve been surrounded by soccer teams and families on vacation, first in Mainz and then in Loreley. On the one hand, these places are basically hotels: clean linens, private bathrooms, furniture – reading lights on the beds, for gods’ sakes. On the [...]]]> German hostels, it turns out, are basically summer camps. The past two nights we’ve been surrounded by soccer teams and families on vacation, first in Mainz and then in Loreley. On the one hand, these places are basically hotels: clean linens, private bathrooms, furniture – reading lights on the beds, for gods’ sakes. On the other hand, they’re out in the middle of nowhere so that they can have sports fields, and there’s about zero chance of meeting fellow students/travelers/student-travelers. Now we’re on a train to Brussels, and I want to catch some sleep (it was, uncharacteristically, 45 minutes late), so just a brief update.

We camped in Strasbourg after missing the last train to Frankfurt, and it’s a an amazingly beautiful town. Then we spent two days on the slow boat down the Rhine, sipping wine and being mobbed by Japanese people with cameras, and had an enjoyable afternoon in Köln, trying every Kölsch we could find while ogling the inexplicably large number of stag- and hen-parties. Yuri just commented on how after two weeks in nigh-unaffordable Ireland and Switzerland, we’re now eating and drinking to excess, and it’s true, but I’ve already lost something like 2 kg, and it probably needed to happen. For now, though, it’s nap time.

Wine country

Wine country

 
Above the Loreley

Above the Loreley

 
Cruising the Rhine

Cruising the Rhine

 
Party Time Köln

Party Time Köln

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