Papenburg Travel Blogs

First of all. This is the first blog I write in my entire life. And it's in english which is not my mother tongue therefore be forbear with me ;)Papenburg is located in the north-western part of Germany. Some of you might have heard about Papenburg because the Meyer Shipyard is located here. It's o…

We woke up at our common time at 7 a.m. although we both were very tired. We stayed in bed until 8 a.m. but then we headed out of it for a shower and breakfast which was great with fresh rolls and bread, cornflakes, fresh fruit, sausage and cheese, eggs and yoghurt, coffee and tea. Hard to decide w…

My boyfriend Klaus lives about 500 km (300 miles) away from me and once a month I travel from Papenburg to Sandersdorf to see him. Usually I drive by car but I had 2 serious accidents recently (nothing happend to me but the car got some bad damages) and I decided to go by train during the autumn an…

In my hometown Papenburg you find one of the leading ship yards in cruise ship building of the world. The Meyer Werft has been a family-owned company in the sixth generation, with Bernard Meyer at the wheel since 1982. For more than 213 years the shipyard has endeavoured to keep on developin…

This was a long distance trip with a stop over in Farö as we did at the beginning of our trip.Well, 23 days and more than 4,000 km behind us we arrived at home sad and exhausted. After a shower we decided to end our trip to Norway at our favourite restaurant "Bosporus". Only delicious turkish food…

Still thrilled but totally exhausted by 2 days with very less sleep and too much alcohol - lol - I got up early in the morning since our flight back to Bremen went off at 1 p.m. I should meet up Christian at the airport and Jules went to the bus station with me. There wasn't even time for breakfast…

To keep the customer satisfied, like in the song by Paul Simon, we planned to visit the town of Papenburg. Oldest daughter wanted to "shop", and because of that BJ wanted it too, and husband likes the activity you can find in a town. I don't mind much, as long as I can experience some new things. S…

It's always sad to say "bye bye" but driving back home after 2 amazing weeks - even with sometimes very bad weather conditions - is depressing. Well, we didn't see a chance to stay and our families were waiting for us therefore we swallowed the bitter pill and drove back.It's a long way back home a…