This was not with trains, this was with a rented car and a SatNav (thank you British shorthand for a new word for a Tom-Tom). We went to Weisbaden, “the Nice of Germany” according to our guidebook, the Hildegard of Bingen’s abbey, and a beautiful Gothic monastery – Eberbach. Weisbaden feels like Nice to me [...]
Seriously, it is amazing amazing. Built at the height of Gothic gorgeousness by people without machines, electricity, computers, with an expected life-span of 40 (as long as the plague didn’t get them). We also took the fast train from Frankfurt and we were going 250 km/hour – which we know because the entire train was [...]
Those of you who read my book know the word boring is anathema to me. Instead I will simply say I have found myself more and more drawn to exploring outside of my glorious village of Bad Salzhausen. This region of Germany is known as Hesse and it is served by a perfect train system [...]
I know this sounds naive, but I have never stood next to a cow in the silence of a quiet field and listened to it tear up grass and chew. My first thought was, “that sounds like a wheatgrass machine,” my second thought was, “maybe we should give nature first dibs on sounds – a [...]
So yesterday I started cycle 3 of hopefully 8 cycles (8 cycles of what, you ask? read all about it here!) – a full body hyperthermia where I SWEAT like a big sweating sweaty sweat person (according to the nurse I was “schwimmen en de table”, love it!). Today I walked my husband up to [...]
Check out this great article from Amy Bell – this amazing world of technology means that I was able to talk to her in Germany last week via my computer. Thank you Amy! ANN ARBOR: Former resident featured on “The Doctors” for her ‘mind over approach’ to Hodgkins Lymphoma Today about to head in for [...]