European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Stories by Christine Donnelly staff writer Mit Fahr a run Tarride travel service in offers a delightful alternative for travellers with a tight budget or just an adventurous Mit Fahr zen Trale is designed to bring Drivers and Pas sengers and it usually costs less than trains or rental anywhere you can drive to in we can find a Driver who will go said Michael president of the organization and manager of the Heidelberg of there Are 40 Mit Fahr zen Trale offices in to use the a potential passenger must visit or Call the Agency in the City he wants to depart there he will be Given the names of people travelling to his desired destination and their departure the yellow and Black Mit Fahr zen Trale brochures available at every list not Only prices to popular european but also the Telephone numbers and addresses of every Mit Fahr zen Trale office in passengers should sign up for a ride several Days in Advance if they have a specific City they want to if no ride is leave your name and number and wait for a Call after a few if the office does not Stop in a Driver going near the desired destination and willing to make a Side trip can usually be sometimes passengers have to play a waiting they usually sign up for a ride several Days in while Drivers often Call in Only a Day ahead of Takeoff if you dont have a set travel just walk in the office and choose a City that appeals to you and has a Driver passengers can choose whether they want to travel in a smoking or nonsmoking and women passengers can also choose to ride Only with women the passenger pays a Basic which is divided Between the Agency and the from a one Way trip to Munich costs 35 German Marks about a one Way ride from Heidelberg to Paris is 46 Marks about from Koblenz to one Way is 54 Marks about its possible to ride to practically any City in Germany for less than 50 Mit Fahr zen Trale also has set rates for trips to such cities As Istanbul and Many just because the City is not listed on our brochure Doest mean we cant get you Bering it just Means the Price would be fixed on a Pyrki Lometor each of the prices listed in the brochure is for a Driver with Only one with than one the fee would be less because the Cost of which is included in the Basic would be divided among More the passenger is both by the Driver and by the travel Bering once a trip is set the passenger is guaranteed a he if the Driver the passengers Money is but if the passenger misses his he does not get his Money Mit Fahr zen Trale serves Only As a after the trip is the Agency is no longer the Drivers Are required to drop the passengers off at the nearest train or bus Stop once they reach their especially late at night or Early in the the Driver will drop the passenger off directly where he wants to Bering said that although the passenger is Mit Fahr zen Trale docs not guarantee the safety of the Driver or his Horst the manager of the Darmstadt said that in the two years he has worked no accidents have been about 50 people use the Darmstadt office each Reily and that number jumps to about 150 a Day during the we get people who arc going on but we also get a lot of he about 40 people drive for Mit Fahr zen Trale from Berlin to Hamburg each he we get the same Drivers Over and Over ber ing also get every kind of from Mercedes to our Drivers Are usually pretty too we had this one Guy who called and said hed take somebody with but hed be smoking and listening to loud music on the the three Earold organization recruits its Drivers through newspaper leaflets and word of Bering Many arc students who can use the extra although he has a successful Bering said he has few american i dont know i think they probably just dont know we Are most offices have employees who speak English and each office has an English German i really dont think there is any major communication he Mit Fahr zen Trale also organizes bus passengers can get a roundtrip bus ticket from Darmstadt to Athens or Portugal for 330 Marks about the bus trips run about five times a along with transporting the service some times ends up with unlikely once this Guy called wanting to ship strawberries from Heidelberg to his rather in Bering we arranged a ride and they got there the longest drive his office has arranged was from Heidelberg to Togo in Mit Fahr zen Rale was inspired by the cooperative feeling of the he this is kind of like hitch hiking but its safer and More we try to make everything and everybody work work is but we try to make it Monica and Horst Reitz look Over the Days innocence Driver he and had Philo by red Gronav Page 14 Krebbers plots trip with prospective passenger Jutta the stars and stripes March 1985 i was a Little id been in Germany less than two didst speak the and had signed up to take a four hour ride with a total i had been assigned to write about the Mit Fahr zen a German rent aride ten minutes i arrived at the Mit Fahr zen Trale office in lugging a Duffel a shoulder bag full of notebooks and camera and a life Magazine in Case my Driver want the talkative As i struggled out of my a smiling Young Man lunged Over to help with my As he grabbed my i spied a gleaming Mercedes parked by the visions of travelling in style and Comfort danced in my right throw your stuff in the the Man next to the my ride a 30yearold Black Volkswagen Sedan was its kind of but dont he till get us we went inside the office to take care of six German Marks less than went to Mit Fahr zen Trale for setting up the another 17 Marks about went to Elmar the for the approximately four hour drive to five minutes we were do you mind if we Stop in Krebbers asked in perfect i went to visit my Girlfriend and i accidentally kept the keys to her so now i have to return he i now i have to wait for this Guy to visit and do who knows what else with his but what could i say i just wanted to get onto the autobahn and away from traffic not Content to just Krebbers the car off at every red Light we came to in the saves you driving on the autobahn was we watched in amusement As passersby stared at the old Black car rumbling it May have been a Little but it was during the Short ride to i Learned that Krebbers was a student at the University in he asked me questions about the United i asked him questions about and he enthralled me with tales of other Mit Fahr zen Trale both As lived to Tell about after stopping at several More red we got to his friends House in his Girlfriend was just a Friend who was a no no Kinky charming and she invited us for even though she was already entertaining two other her guests were but spoke English for my thirty minutes passed before Krebbers suggested we 1 haunt even noticed the 1 was having too much on the drive out of i casually mentioned that 1 wanted to learn German bad for the rest of the my self appointed Tutor refused to speak but instead of slowing our conversation grew even More so in that we missed our autobahn turnoff to Ulm and had to during the rest of the drive to Krebbers and i Man aged to Brush up on our compare educational solve the problems of Central contemplate religion and become the looming spire of the Ulm Cathedral signalled we had reached my although Krebbers was required Only to drop me off at the train we ended up walking around the City and having dinner together before he headed on for we promised to stay in touch with each and we needless to my initial nervousness had been ground i arrived and had a great time getting the next As i paid 54 Marks about for my Solo return ride on the 1 thought of my great adventure the Day then i got on the train and read my life March 1985 the stars and stripes Page 15