The World According to Nils » Travel http://nilsjeppe.com Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:19:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Heligoland http://nilsjeppe.com/2010/07/16/heligoland/ http://nilsjeppe.com/2010/07/16/heligoland/#comments Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:04:54 +0000 Nils http://nilsjeppe.com/?p=1139 Pictures from our April trip to Heligoland (aka “Helgoland” in German):

Cuxhaven - Harbor Cuxhaven - Harbor Cuxhaven - Kugelbake Halunder Jet - Front view Halunder Jet - Seating Heligoland - "Land Ho!" Heligoland - Birds Heligoland - Cliffs Heligoland - Cliffs with Birds Heligoland - Cliffs with Birds Heligoland - Coast Heligoland - View of Port Heligoland - View of the Port Rainbow over Heligoland Ship The "Halunder Jet" The Wide and Open Sea Windows-Powered Failship

Basically we took the Halunder Jet from Hamburg to Heligoland and returned the same evening. It was quite a fun trip, if I may say so myself.

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]]> http://nilsjeppe.com/2008/06/15/photos-from-san-francisco/feed/ 0 Neuschwanstein http://nilsjeppe.com/2008/04/27/neuschwanstein/ http://nilsjeppe.com/2008/04/27/neuschwanstein/#comments Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:29:47 +0000 Nils http://nils.jeppe.de/?p=683 Today, I undertook a road trip with two of my co-workers to see Ludwig II’s famous castle.

Castle Neuschwanstein The Alps The Alps Castle Sign Forest Castle Neuschwanstein Lake Castle Neuschwanstein Castle Neuschwanstein Castle Neuschwanstein Bridge The Alps Castle Neuschwanstein Castle Neuschwanstein Castle Neuschwanstein

]]> http://nilsjeppe.com/2008/04/27/neuschwanstein/feed/ 3 Xmas Time is Stressful Time http://nilsjeppe.com/2007/12/20/xmas-time-is-stressful-time/ http://nilsjeppe.com/2007/12/20/xmas-time-is-stressful-time/#comments Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:09:53 +0000 Nils http://nils.jeppe.de/2007/12/20/xmas-time-is-stressful-time Continue reading →]]> Vienna two weekends ago. Detroit last week. Two Christmas parties and three private dinner events in the seven work-days I was in Frankfurt these past two weeks. And on top of it all I caught a really bad flu. (My nose is actually hurting from being cleaned so much.) Today seems to be the first day I have really any time to do “personal” things again. It’s weeks like these that I notice how old I have become.

I did catch up with my email, finally; if you sent me something directly and didn’t get a reply… then the malign email gods ate it. Please resend!

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The [Corey & Joel](http://www.coreyandjoelradio.com/) live show was pretty good, you should grab it when it’s up for download next week. I am not on the show, just a spectator.

Departure was delayed by 1h because the Department of Homeland Security guys had to re-check every passport. Germans like me were allowed to just pass through. US citizens had to explain themselves: Why are you leaving the country? How long will you stay? What do you do for a living? Well, and the Arab looking people and the semi-cute Nigerian chick got searched.

To add injury to insult, I had to fly Economy class. Flying business class is something I will really miss. At least I had a really good seat on my way to Detroit. And the cabin crew was really great too. But I do have to talk to someone about the economy class breakfast. Bah!

]]> http://nilsjeppe.com/2007/12/15/back-from-detroit/feed/ 2 Vienna For Ten Hours http://nilsjeppe.com/2007/12/09/vienna-for-ten-hours/ http://nilsjeppe.com/2007/12/09/vienna-for-ten-hours/#comments Sun, 09 Dec 2007 05:49:30 +0000 Nils http://nils.jeppe.de/2007/12/09/vienna-for-ten-hours Continue reading →]]> I am back from Vienna – I went there to meet my dear friend, Anna. Arrived an hour late, at 12:00, due to a broken brake on the airplane. Helped Anna with her luggage and then we went out on the town, doing a little bit of sightseeing, had lunch, the usual bits.

Vienna is actually pretty nice, they really dressed the city up for the holidays. Of course it’s hard to get a thorough look at the city in such a short time. Still, I had a really good time, and it was very nice to see Anna again after all these years.

I went back to Frankfurt at 7pm – Hotel rooms for the night were ~200 Euro, and since Anna went back to Moscow at 10pm anyway there wasn’t really a point in staying.

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