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    Frankfurt, Germany

    23. september 2014, Tyskland ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C

    Finally new shoes. Beware of Merrill's as they clearly make some very cheap shoes at some levels. My feet are aching from them. I will admit they did go up two volcanoes but they shouldn't have had the soles structure collapse after one month of heavy use. After trying on many boots at many stores around here I went to The North Face store and bought full on hiking boots and they feel great. Note the demise of my cheap Merrill's. New boot kicking Merrill out of the way and right in to the trash at The North Face store.Læs mere

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    Frankfurt, Germany

    23. september 2014, Tyskland ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C

    Buildings new and old? Few old buildings here and from the look of them I got the idea they weren't really old but more likely heavily renovated or reproductions. In fact given the picture below from 1945 I doubt you could even have found a splinter to use rebuild after that devastation. The cathedral looks intact but if you look close it's a skeleton just held up better to the bombs.Læs mere

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    Frankfurt, Germany

    24. september 2014, Tyskland ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C

    Checked out of Frankfurt Hostel (my bed pictured) as I wanted to try out a new place I read about. Gotta say Frankfurt Hostel was a good place and provided a pasta dinner each night which is not common. The new place had breakfast until noon and even luggage cages which I'm quite certain are dog cages but they worked quite well to lock my backpack in. The new place has a great lounge and nice feel to it. Leaving tomorrow on the train to The Netherlands.Læs mere

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    Frankfurt, Germany

    24. september 2014, Tyskland ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C

    Today's mission was to get my jeans fixed. I brought this pair of jeans to europe as they are really lightweight. I think they are lightweight only because they have been pre-washed nearly to threads. I should've known having repaired them even before I came to europe. So I found a tailor and they were quite gracious and the guy pass the hell out of the things even much more than I asked him to any only charge me 10 euro which I felt was a bargain. I'm going to be in brussels next and I'm going to track down an outfitter store and find a pair off hiking cargo pants but not the ones that turn in to shorts.

    As I mentioned before I'm staying at a hostel right in the red light district. Whenever possible they put many of the hostels near the train stations because backpackers are often on foot and none of us have cars here or any transfer station besides foot and it seems most of these red light district are right near the train stations. The area is totally safe prostitution is legal and for whatever else is going on the peeps aren't all weaponized up like the people in our cities. Check out the pictures when they say red light they aren't kidding here.    Læs mere

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    Next Stop - Eindhoven Netherlands

    25. september 2014, Tyskland ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C

    Leaving Frankfurt on the German DB ICE. This train just looks fast; 300km/hr I'm told. 140 miles to Dusseldorf where I change trains in 1 hour 23 minutes with stops along the way so averaging over 100 miles per hour still. My rail pass provided me a 1st class ticket on this one. It doesn't quite match the TGV rocketing me from Paris to Nice in 5 hours but it's a sweet ride nonetheless.Læs mere

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    The Netherlands

    25. september 2014, Holland ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C

    First stop in The Netherlands; Venlo. That's a fast food restaurant in the train station where each little metal door had burgers and such in it and a place to pay.

    Lots of flowers on display here, but of course it is The Netherlands.

    Pay for toilet at the train station. This one was unique as it had an all metal toilet seat that retracted and steam cleaned itself getting it ready for you.    Læs mere

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    Amsterdam, Netherlands

    30. september 2014, Holland ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

    I went to the Anne Frank House. Not allowed to take pics. I have posted several I found online showing what I saw. It is powerful to touch the bookcase I read about when we read this book in school as a child. You forget and this type of experience makes you remember and understand at some level what happened in Europe not that long ago. To walk up those steep stairs and stand in her tiny room that she shared with others and see the pictures that she glued to the walls is an experience I will not forget.

    The Anne Frank House is quite an experience, a well done tasteful, appropriately reserved museum. I found out in 1944 a Dutch politician in exile announced by radio that those in the Netherlands should record their war experience for history after it ended and Anne Frank rewrote her entries based on this. There were many pieces of information like that I did not recall in this museum. I have not read her book since grade school but the pieces of it they display and the quotes from it show a tremendous writing skill for someone who was only a young teen. A skill far beyond her years that spoke of some urgency to do it then and do it well. The writings reveal an almost eery knowledge that what she knew was doing was important work and even though but a young teen it was to be her one chance to be the writer she desired to be.

    If you ever get the chance to go see this house. She was but one person who lived in the house and the stories of what happened to all are as important. Her father's unrelenting push to make sure her writings were published is an amazing story of its own. At the end of the tour there is a guest book you can write whatever you want in. It is important to remember this happened only 70 years ago, not even a second ago considering time and it is important to always remember.

    You learn visiting places like this that you cannot learn from books and pictures. Next week I'm going to Krakow, Poland. I saw that on the way is Auschwitz - Birkenau Concentration Camp and I will be going there. Anne Frank was taken there on September 3, 1944. I have been to Dachau and have since thought I didn't need to visit another place like it however I think if travel and see things like this when so few do it is important to do so and talk about it.    Læs mere

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    Amsterdam, Netherlands

    1. oktober 2014, Holland ⋅ 🌫 13 °C

    Absolutely scariest restaurant ever. They had the mannequin as seen set so you had to walk right by her to get inside. Up close she looked like a corpse, almost zombie like so it was a zombiequin. Not at all surprising that not a single patron was inside. Their grade in marketing = F. Many restaurants near by full of customers.

    The whole Dutch bike thing is real, not just in the movies. These people are bike crazy and you have to watch out as they seem to have the right of way everywhere and they don't slow down for you. I only got hit once having had many near misses. Pictured is the bike parking at the train station where I assume commuters park them. Looks like over 1000 bikes to me. It is my understanding people sometimes have a couple of bikes and leave them various places in this country to use once they arrive by rail. Seems to be a good system.

    Half way to Hamburg waiting for the ICE high speed train.    Læs mere

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    Europe

    1. oktober 2014, Tyskland ⋅ 🌙 15 °C

    I've now traveled 3,075 miles or for my European friends 4098 Km or the cross country distance of the United states from Jupiter, Florida to Ocean Creek, Washington. All by rail so far starting in Paris and now in I'm in Hamburg. Many miles to go as I cover eastern Europe. I think it is important to do Europe by rail at least once even if you can go from Berlin to London for $40 euro on Easy Jet most any time. You see things by rail you don't see by plane. I came through Switzerland to Stuttgart on a Saturday morning and watched people on their morning walks through the small towns or sitting by the river alongside the rail enjoying a beautiful early fall day. You see people living and the perfectly stacked firewood of the Swiss and Germans. You also see the names of towns and I passed a town called Rottweil and looked it up and the Rottweiler dog was named for this town having been "used to herd livestock and pull carts laden with butchered meat and other products to market." (Wikipedia). You just can't see that from a plane. You can tell the economic vitality as you enter a city by rail by how many cranes you see along the way as you entern the city. Zurich and Hamburg have thriving economies based on this measure. The most interesting thing I have seen are these small shanty towns near the smaller rail stations along the way where it appear there are small sheds and gardens. I can't tell if people live there or if they just have small gardens in these areas. The most interesting thing is I see nearly each small plot has a flag flying above the small huts on the walled off properties like but in both Switzerland and Germany I saw flags of many other nations and in particular Israeli flags in quite a few. I'm not sure how to find out more about these communites but I hope to along the way.

    Pictures from the train while in Switzerland and southern Germany.    Læs mere

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