300km in a Handshake.

As I’ve said before, Germany is very much reliant on websites that offer up car-sharing opportunities, what with the national train service being obscenely expensive on a majority of journeys (but very good value on others, it must be said) and not actually having any intercity national coach service. Strangely, I know this sounds stupid, but this situation is new to me – Ireland always had a train service and a half-competing national bus service,... Read More

4 Bodies, 6 Bags & A Giant Rucksack Bound For Frankfurt.

The relative expense of the Deutsche Bahn national train system in Germany means that, unlike back home where insurance and potential murder concerns have prevented a nationwide take-up, car-sharing on long journeys has become very much part of the norm over here. I’m not entirely sure how it all works, but it seems to be mostly borne out of financial necessity, with ticket prices from Muenster to Frankfurt for example seemingly often... Read More

What’s ‘bed’ in German?!

After a really great Easter back at home eating good food, drinking good drink, and catching up with friends, it was high time to head back to Germany to begin the settling down properly. Unfortunately, when we planned our period of yo-yoing back and forth between Dublin, it seemed most likely that we still wouldn’t actually have a place to live when we came back to Frankfurt and thus would have to continue our apartment search. Like I say though,... Read More

There’s No Shame in being a UFO Enthusiast…

**Many of you will be aware by now that I’ve actually had a major change of plans and am now in Frankfurt, Germany. I’ll write more about the atypical series of events that unfolded in the 48 hours or so I was in China by tomorrow but I thought in the meantime I’d post what I had already written and planned to post about my trip to Japan. It’s amazing in hindsight how you can fly for just 3 hours from Japan to another Asian... Read More