Arthur Dent

The last couple of days have not had a lot of blog worthy material. Yesterday I didn't even take out the camera as we were basically just heading back to family. There were

Weeks of no rain they said. A heat wave they warned. I'm not too sure we speak the same language because in my heat waves, I'm not slowing down to 50 on the

So the original plan for getting out of Ulm was: throw everything in the car, park the car in the city, explore the Saturday market, and head out of town. We started with

Today we stayed in Ulm. Our experienced guide wanted to make up some brownie points for yesterdays lack of information about a fireworks festival, and took us around town center at a time

Last night, even in the hotel we were all cuddled up in our blankets as we sat on the sofa to chat before going to bed. This morning, the blanket didn't feel like

Today was a bust. We left München and started driving to the southern end of Germany. And as promised, it was wet and cold. Occasionally we got little bit of blue skies which

The whole reason for stepping foot in Bavaria in the first place was that I got high recommendations for the Deutsches (German) Museum. And universally, it didn't matter who I talked to, everyone

The forecast has finally stopped threatening and started delivering. We drove through a fair amount of rain on our journey to München, and it continued to try and make things miserable by constantly

Well ... it's certainly quite a statement. In the middle of seemingly nowhere, you get a giant concrete tower with "self-cleaning" fiberglass shrouds that comes with 12 elevator shafts. And that's what it does:

So I got given an address. Which I followed. But the further I went, the smaller, narrower, and slower the roads seemed to get. By the time I turned into some alley with

This morning we went by bus and funicular up the local mountain to get ourselves a proper view over the city. What we didn't expect was that the more entertaining thing up there

Yesterday was too much family and too much driving to remember to take the camera out. Though it's kind of crazy how jumping between entire cities here takes less time than it takes

More relaxation. More family catch up (who knew that after not seeing each other for so many years, that there would be so much to chat about). And this time, the evening dinner

One of the big things that I was looking forward to by going traveling is finally getting some exercise again. The winter back home is not motivating me to do anything besides continuing

The good part about being jet-lagged in the direction of Europe is that I make everybody happy by being such an early riser all of a sudden (though we'll see how long that