A Weekend in Munich!

Good Morning Munich! We’d been looking to get out of Frankfurt for a couple of weeks, but the price of the Bahn coupled with our seriously empty bank balances meant all bets were off. Thankfully, a friend of mine agreed to run us down to Munich, as he was heading that direction anyway, so we were more than glad of the lift. So, what do we think of Munich?   Well first up, we didn’t get there for a long time – it appears that the day we... Read More

Cycling the Radweg

Just what I needed... The last few weeks have been exceptionally busy over here in Frankfurt – I’ve finally gotten a job, which I know will come as a resounding relief to some folk, we’re looking at new places to live as our rent contract is up soon on our current apartment, and I’ve been doing other projects besides. I’m also travelling back to Ireland for an extremely short visit this week, and we’ve still been travelling up north at... Read More

Whatever Happened to the Clothes Hanger Trick?

The last couple of posts, in my mini-series, I was writing about everything to do with train travel – partly inspired by my series of journeys last week down to Frankfurt and back (which ended up being in a car anyway). In all this time, I’ve been half-living in the north-west of Germany, half down in Frankfurt. So what’s been happening?   Today, Beer, Tomorrow, Pfand... Well, following a job interview on Thursday, I repaired forthwith... Read More