VISITING ROMANIA WITH A ROMANIAN This was an interesting trip because I visited Romania with a student from Tuebingen while I was studying there who was also from Romania. Her family was of German ancestry so she was able to move to Germany and study there. It was interesting being in Communist Romania with someone [...]

TRAVELING BEFORE IPHONES I did a trip through Eastern Europe in 1989 before the wall came down driving from Germany during my junior abroad. Unfortunately I didn't really take a lot of pictures and/or I lost them so until the search turns up something in my old boxes, these pictures remind me of what I [...]

VISIT DURING TRIP TO SOVIET UNION This was during my trip to the Soviet Union through Eastern Europe. Yeah - that was a long time ago. That means there are no pictures from the trip - so this is just a reminder to myself. FOND MEMORY I remember for a while after the trip I [...]

I KNOW IT'S NOT YUGOSLAVIA ANY MORE I actually told someone recently I'd never been to Serbia and then I realized that I visited Belgrade in Yugoslavia while studying in Germany. Times have changed! FOND MEMORY Belgrade is kind of on the way back to Germany from the USSR trip. I often wonder if it's [...]

THE EUROPEAN EQUIVALENT OF THE CARIBBEAN This is where the Germans go for holiday break like New Yorkers do for St. Thomas. I went there during school break while studying at Tuebingen. I think it was the first time I rode a camel. The local industry uses the blood from ticks on the cacti to [...]

JA - EAST GERMANY I don't have a lot of good pictures from way back in 1989, but it was an important trip while studying in Tuebingen. The picture of the brown coal is weird but symbolic - the workers' paradise was actually a really bad place to live as a worker - that brown [...]

ACTUALLY, THE SOVIET UNION Yes - that's how old I am. I studied in Germany my Junior year in college before the Berlin wall fell. I was dating a girl from Romania so I got a chance to travel to a lot of the East bloc. Crazy times. FOND MEMORY Hard to tell from the [...]

JUNIOR YEAR ABROAD For some reason I was always really into learning German - my Dad originally said take the language that no one else was taking. I only spoke German while there - even with Americans, even in the beginning when I really couldn't speak it that well.  FOND MEMORY I couldn't fall asleep [...]

THE FRENCH FRIES ARE REALLY GOOD But the french fries should never be eaten with mayonnaise - that's gross. This was a fun city to visit because I was still new to the Eurail process then. Great center part of the city - loved the buildings in Brussels. Also has the Manneken Pis. FOND MEMORY As [...]

SOME OF THE GREATEST MOUNTAINS IN THE WORLD I have two memories when I think of Switzerland mountains - skiing and hiking or being in a train going around beautiful lakes with mountains in the background. We went to Switzerland as well with the floor I lived on in Tuebingen. I also had a lot [...]