Just thought I'd post my plans for Germany.
I'm hoping to be able to add a ticker some time next week, but I'm not 100% sure who I have to ask for holiday at the moment as I've moved teams this week (both candidate people are back in next week, so it should get sorted then), but I'm also hoping that step-dad can check his reward points, as I might be able to use some of his points to get half off my flight
So anyway:
I'll be flying from Southampton To Hanover on the Friday (28th Nov).
Once I get to Hanover, I will then be transferring straight onto the train for about an hour, travelling to Bad Pyrmont.
Once I get to Bad Pyrmont, it's a walk of unknown distance up to the Meeting house that I'm staying at.
I'm then due to reverse all that at about Sunday lunchtime, so should be back home by Sunday evening.
While in Germany, I'm expecting to get involved in a good mount of Quaker business Meetings, as well as meeting up with my European based Ffriends who I haven't seen since Easter and then probably won't see again until November 2009 unless I go to Syria in Spring 2009 (don't think I'll be allowed that one off at work because of all my other planned trips). It's a lot more fun than it sounds and was a really exhausting weekend when I went last year, which was in Brussels.
I was hoping to travel by train, but both the cost and time of travel are crazy - 1 way on the train is more than my entire return journey by plane, plus it would have been overnight (Thursday - Monday).
I've never been to Germany before and know no German, plus when I made the trip to Brussels, I got lost between the last train station and the Meeting house. With this in mind, I'm a little nervous about travelling on my own, but at the same time, I'm looking forward to the trip and seeing my Ffriends again, as I haven't seen some of them since November last year.
