{"id":52698,"date":"2016-07-29T15:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T20:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toiletovhell.com\/?p=52698"},"modified":"2016-07-29T14:15:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T19:15:26","slug":"flush-it-friday-coming-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/flush-it-friday-coming-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Flush it Friday: Coming Home"},"content":{"rendered":"
Welcome to Friday, in which I finally have something to talk about. Unbeknownst to most of the Toilet, I have been in Germany for the past 3 months on work related duties. By the time this post runs I should either be; back home, on a plane\u00a0or in an\u00a0airport. No telling.<\/p>\n
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Back in April I was required for work to transplant myself to Germany and live in a little hotel room with a weird pink hued bathroom and matching toilet. While I was looking forward to this experience, I wasn’t able to bring my TRUE METAL SHIELDMAIDEN of a wife with me. Total bummer aside, I had to do what I had to do to bring the bacon home and seeing a few cool things in the meantime wouldn’t be too bad.<\/p>\n
I stayed in the\u00a0Eifel\u00a0region of Germany which is full of small towns, nice people, good food and farm land, creating a fairly relaxed environment. It actually wasn’t too much different from growing up in Central Texas. The coolest part of the area was its proximity to Luxembourg, Belgium and a few major German cities.<\/p>\n
First and foremost,\u00a0I was here for work, and my work schedule kind of sucked (4:00 pm to 1:00 am). So while my weekday activities were limited, weekends were free to explore the area. I traveled to bigger cities like Frankfurt, Cologne, Brussels, Bruges, Bastogne, Luxembourg City and Amsterdam, but also to plenty of small villages\u00a0that were full of history. I was able to see artwork from a few of my favorite artists, hike on extensive trails, enjoy Heavy Metal live, ride trains and try different varieties of food.<\/p>\n
Oh, and I went castles. LOTS of castles. And had beer, LOTS\u00a0of beer. Even beer in castles: double extra bonus points.<\/p>\n
Things I learned on my trip:<\/p>\n
*I went to independent record stores too, chill out<\/p>\n
In order to chronicle my trip and hone my photography skills, I bought a semi-fancy camera and put it to good use by taking thousands of photographs. Seriously, THOUSANDS.<\/p>\n
Here a few choice picks that I think the Toilet will enjoy for various reasons:<\/p>\n