Weimar

Clearly I am not so good with the whole blog thing, but we made it to Weimar!! 11 days ago to be exact...Anyway Weimar is absolutely wonderful!! Its sort of a cross between the epitome of a quaint little German town and a hub for artists, musicians, and young people. A very interesting combination. The piazzas are beautiful and so active with street vendors and a street musician here and there. We were taking a walk in the park yesterday and there are families and old couples everywhere, and there is a little old man sitting at the end of a bridge over the river playing the violin. I mean what the heck?! Everything here is so surreal and seemingly perfect. We have yet to actually find a "bad part of town". John has litterally had me over every square inch of he city, from the Bauhaus buildings in the south to the rail yards in the north to the park in the east and all the way to the suburbs across the river. 

As of now I have decided that the German bakeries and chocolate will be the death of me. Even heir bottom of the line chocolate is fantastic! And there is seriously a bakery on every corner with fresh bread. We learned our lesson the hard way though that some things don't ranslate exactly as you think they will. Our first night here we went to a kebob shop and ordered a pepperoni pizza and what we got was a ham and jalepenio pepper pizza. I'm pretty sure most of the German words I have learned are for food. Oh well I'll learn the rest sooner or later!

We have been living in a hostel for the past two weeks which has been quite the experience....both good and bad. We actually met several English speaking students who had come to Weimar for school as well, so we are already meeting people! Our hostel stay has been so prolonged because it has been so difficult to find a place to live! As if it weren't hard enough in English, we have to translate everything from German and then cross our fingers and pray that when the apartment owner answers the phone they will speak some english. But success at last!!! I have a beautiful hard wood floor room with three giant windows that open up over a stream and a garden. So things are looking up and hopefully this will mean oportunities for more travel soon!

For now here are some pictures from around Weimar