Thanks for the honest input guys...u certainly saved me $130 + transportation and my very precious mongering time in germany...think i'll stick to my ol fav's
BN and Labedo.
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Thanks for the honest input guys...u certainly saved me $130 + transportation and my very precious mongering time in germany...think i'll stick to my ol fav's
BN and Labedo.
[QUOTE=BlueScott]Of course if anyone has any last minute suggestions for "Doing" the Frankfurt scene by S-Bahn feel free to give me a hand. I do speak passable German and am comfortable with the train system.[/QUOTE]
By the Frankfurt scene I suppose you are talking about the Hessen 3.
Palace is in the city so no problem with public transport access there.
Getting Oase via S-bahn means getting to Bad Homburg and then taking a cab to Burgholzhausen (or BHH as the Roemer refer to it - BH, by the way, is short for Bustenhalter or brassiere).
Getting to World is either a train to Giessen and then a cab or if you have more patience, connecting to a train to Garbenteich and then taking a cab. World is in Pohlheim-Garbenteich.
Just a quick information.
I was able to find here on the forum, and on the net, many GoogleEarth files with FKKs map all around Germany, and it was really useful.
Unluckly I'm unable to find any TomTom POI files, that I should consider quite more useful.
Any suggestion on how to find such a file?
Thanks.
Just finished posting my 7th and final report from my trip last week to NRW and Oase in which I visited 6 clubs in 3 days. I am pleased to report fellow monger congress members that the state of mongering in 2007 is sound and sublime.
Here are the reports:
1) "Something Old and Something New": [url]http://www.internationalsexguide.info/forum/showpost.php?p=550933&postcount=1931[/url]
2)"Day 1: Tues afternoon at Cocoon ":[url]http://www.internationalsexguide.info/forum/showpost.php?p=551263&postcount=1379[/url]
3)"Day 1: Tues night at Beverly": [url]http://www.internationalsexguide.info/forum/showpost.php?p=551648&postcount=1167[/url]
4)"2nd day: Weds afternoon at Steffi's Waldsauna": [url]http://www.internationalsexguide.info/forum/showpost.php?p=551665&postcount=1387[/url]
5) "2nd day: Weds. afternoon and night at the Hof": [url]http://www.internationalsexguide.info/forum/showpost.php?p=552010&postcount=324[/url]
6) "Stormy afternoon in the Living Room": [url]http://www.internationalsexguide.info/forum/showpost.php?p=552413&postcount=1393[/url]
7) "Braving the Mongering Hordes at Oase": [url]http://www.internationalsexguide.info/forum/showpost.php?p=552771&postcount=1241[/url]
Total Mongering Costs:
Cocoon - 170 Euro
Beverly- 70 Euro (what an unbelievable bargain)
Steffi's - 100 Euro
Bernd's - 295 Euro
Living Room - 150 Euro
Oase - 365 Euro
Autobahn polizei - 300 Euro
Worth every euro cent!
Njoy
isseu,
autobahn polizei? 300 euros? that's the equivalent of a day at bernds, ouch! and i thought they don't have speed limits on the autobahn?
btw, thanks for all the reports.
cheers,
ww
[QUOTE=On The Road]Just a quick information.
I was able to find here on the forum, and on the net, many GoogleEarth files with FKKs map all around Germany, and it was really useful.
Unluckly I'm unable to find any TomTom POI files, that I should consider quite more useful.
Any suggestion on how to find such a file?
Thanks.[/QUOTE]
You find it here, with Gandjim's courtesy :
[url]http://www.youppie.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1278[/url]
The Tom Tom POI file has 500 clubs over Europe, from Spain till Russia, including the German FKK.
Thanks very much for the diligent reporting. Loved your description of the orgy at Bernd's. :-)
[quote=woof woof]isseu,
autobahn polizei? 300 euros? that's the equivalent of a day at bernds, ouch! and i thought they don't have speed limits on the autobahn?
btw, thanks for all the reports.
cheers,
ww[/quote]
... has speedlimits on certain sections.
[quote=woof woof]isseu,
autobahn polizei? 300 euros? that's the equivalent of a day at bernds, ouch! and i thought they don't have speed limits on the autobahn?
btw, thanks for all the reports.
cheers,
ww[/quote]
yes they do, on certain segments. you have to pay attention to the signage on long downhill sections, icy area, curvy sections and of course construction areas. the best is to keep pace with the local traffic- they know the area with limits.
it's my fault because i should know all of this, but i was so engrossed in anticipation that i lost concentration and they caught me doing 150 in a 100 km section.
if you do not have a permanent address in germany they make you pay on the spot. knowing this, i quickly transferred all of my cash except for 320 euro out of my wallet. the actual fine that they wanted to collect was 400 euro, but they took the 300 as "that was all that i had" and left me with 20.
to punish myself, i didn't go to one additional club that i had planned on. guess it was my time to share the expenses for all of my autobahn usage.
[QUOTE=Routard]You find it here, with Gandjim's courtesy :
[url]http://www.youppie.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1278[/url]
The Tom Tom POI file has 500 clubs over Europe, from Spain till Russia, including the German FKK.[/QUOTE]
Thanks a lot, Routard... just downloaded. They are going to be really usefull.
[quote=iseeu]yes they do, on certain segments. you have to pay attention to the signage on long downhill sections, icy area, curvy sections and of course construction areas. the best is to keep pace with the local traffic- they know the area with limits.
it's my fault because i should know all of this, but i was so engrossed in anticipation that i lost concentration and they caught me doing 150 in a 100 km section.
if you do not have a permanent address in germany they make you pay on the spot. knowing this, i quickly transferred all of my cash except for 320 euro out of my wallet. the actual fine that they wanted to collect was 400 euro, but they took the 300 as "that was all that i had" and left me with 20.
to punish myself, i didn't go to one additional club that i had planned on. guess it was my time to share the expenses for all of my autobahn usage.[/quote]
90 in a 60 mph section! you got off easy. in the states you could have been charged with reckless driving, had your license suspended, and be fined $1000 in some counties. on my last trips i managed to get 3 local speeding violations (15e each) and two parking tickets at about 50e each. so, i sympathize. it seems like the parking enforcement has gotten much worse in the eu. must be a way to raise money without raising taxes. in the past, you could count on lax parking enforcement.
There is a new law that is effective on January 2007. Cars are now required to be properly equiped in winter weather or you could get a ticket. This means snow tires, working lights and wipers, and fluids in the washer bottles. The rental companies have used this excuse to add a 4-5E surchage per day. I was charged an extra 16E for 4 days even though the car did not appear to be equiped with snow tires. :(
I believe the more well known rental companies always have put winter tires on their cars. I usually use Europcar, and had a discussion in the garage last November. The garage technician told me they always put winter tires on all their cars during winter season. No extra charge for that. I have seen on the web-site that you can book winter tires at an extra 4 Euros per day, but this is obviously not necessary since the cars already are equiped with it.
And good tires seems to be necessary equipment these last days...
[QUOTE=Polar]I believe the more well known rental companies always have put winter tires on their cars. I usually use Europcar, and had a discussion in the garage last November. The garage technician told me they always put winter tires on all their cars during winter season. No extra charge for that. I have seen on the web-site that you can book winter tires at an extra 4 Euros per day, but this is obviously not necessary since the cars already are equiped with it.
And good tires seems to be necessary equipment these last days...[/QUOTE]
Not sure how it is now, but last winter Europcar was indeed charging and extra fee for a car with winter tires.
Cheers,
Dedalus
[quote=dedalus]not sure how it is now, but last winter europcar was indeed charging and extra fee for a car with winter tires.
cheers,
dedalus[/quote]
your auto insurance is actually lower with winter tires than it is with normal tires so there is a financial incentive to switch over too (aside from the additional safety factor).
one thing which they pay more attention to in europe that we don't here on this side of the pond is the tire's speed rating.
we just don't drive very fast here so it doesn't matter quite as much.
in germany, on the other hand, there are cars on the autobahn driving on the left lane which are driving at twice the speed of the cars driving on the right lane. those cars in the left lane aren't just using normal speed tires but tires which are made to run at 240 kph for hours on end.
the us market is porsche's largest market for its cars. those cars don't drive anywhere near their limits or potential here. seems like such a waste.