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Monthly Archives: July 2018
Experiencing Germany With Three of My Nieces. Part 8 – Munich
We started off the next morning with a bit of a bittersweet moment; my oldest niece was departing our tour and catching a train to Amsterdam for the next phase of her journey. My friend and I took her to … Continue reading
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Tagged Augsburg, bakery, beer, biergarten, Bobingen, bratwurst, Bruch, concentration camp, concert, Dachau, Dirndl, English Garden, food, Germany, Labeque, Manzanar, Munch, Munich Philharmonic, music, photo, rental car, S-Bahn, sausage, Sophie Scholl, tea, Tokyo, train, travel, U-Bahn, Weisse Rose, White Rose, Yoyogi
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Through the Camera – Cobblestones and Cherry Blossoms
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Tagged cherry blossom, detail, gray, nature, photo, pink, travel
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Experiencing Germany With Three of My Nieces. Part 7 – The Schwarzwald and Augsburg
Our final morning in the Pfalz was a rather relaxed one. We enjoyed our last visit to the excellent breakfast buffet put on by Weingut Manz, then finished up packing before turning in the keys and bidding Wachenheim and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Augsburg, Black Forest, cake, Calw, cherry blossom, Coburg, Dirndl, Germany, Karlsruhe, Luther, Nagold, Pfalz, Pforzheim, photo, piano, Schwarzwald, Stau, tea, Trachten, travel, Wachenheim, Weingut Manz
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Experiencing Germany With Three of My Nieces. Part 6 – Bad Duerkheim and the Pfaelzer Wald
Since we had gone further afield the day before, our last full day in the Pfalz was focused more on relatively local activities where a bit of rain would be more easily managed. We started off with another excellent breakfast, … Continue reading
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Tagged Advent, architecture, Bad Duerkheim, burial, Denmark, food, Germany, gothic, grave, Gross Eppental, Gunhild, Hardenburg, Heinrich III, Henry III, hike, hiking, Holy Roman Emperor, James Fenimore Cooper, Kaiserslautern, Klosterkirche, language, Leberknoedel, Limburg, monastery, photo, rain, Rheinland-Pfalz, romanesque, ruins, Salian dynasty, Saline, Schlossgarten, Seebach, Speyer, The Heidenmauer, train station, travel, Wachenheim, wine, wine tasting
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Experiencing Germany With Three of My Nieces. Part 5 – Wachenheim an der Weinstrasse and into France
In 1891 a man from Friedelsheim, Germany became a naturalized US citizen in Cleveland, Ohio. That man was my Great-Great-Grandfather. Through a relatively convoluted chain of events, in the 1990’s families on both sides of the Atlantic who were wondering … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad Duerkheim, Bed and Breakfast, Berwartstein, border, Cafe Schellack, castel, Duerkheimer Fass, emmigration, family history, Flammkucken, Fleckenstein, food, France, Friedelsheim, Germany, immigration, landscape, Lauter, Oberschlettenbach, Patisserie Rebert, Pfaelzer Leberwurst, Pfaelzer Wald, Pfalz, photo, Rheinland-Pfalz, ruins, Saumagen, tower, tradition, travel, Wachenheim, Wachtenburg, Weingut Manz, Weinstrasse, Weissemborg, well, window, wine, winery
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Experiencing Germany With Three of My Nieces. Part 4 – Adventures in Transportation
I realized the night before that I hadn’t made reservations for the day’s train journey, but wasn’t overly concerned as I figured that a late morning train on a Monday would not be overly crowded. As we drove to the … Continue reading
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Tagged B&B, Coburg, E220D, Frankfurt, gelato, Germany, Heidelberg, IC, ice, Mercedes, missed trains, Nuremberg, platform, rail, rail travel, railpass, rental car, texting, train, travel, travel adventures, Wachenheim, Weingut Manz
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Experiencing Germany With Three of My Nieces. Part 3 – Coburg
Having previously mainly arrived at Coburg on local trains from Bamberg, it was very novel to step out of the ICE right where we were going to. Even better, my friend who had invited us to stay with him was … Continue reading
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Tagged balloon, border, castle, city wall, Coburg, East German, Fachwerk, food, Germany, hot air balloon, ice, ice cream, Inner German Border, Neuendorf, photo, renewables, Schloss Rosenau, Schnapps, Sesslach, solar, train, train station, travel, Veste Coburg
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Thoughts on the Fourth of July
Today is 4. July 2018. It is also “The 4’th of July” – a holiday in the United States of America celebrating the founding of the country I find myself to be, by birth, a citizen of. I have experienced … Continue reading
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Experiencing Germany With Three of My Nieces. Part 2 – Leipzig
I was impressed. In the interest of maximizing our time in Leipzig, I had reserved seats on the ICE train which departed Hamburg at 6:30 AM. Given the amount of walking and fairly late night we had had before, I … Continue reading
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Tagged bakery, Berlin, book store, car, Dammtor, East German, Germany, Hamburg, Leipzig, luggage, market, Mendelssohn, Mendelssohnhaus, Multipla, museum, photo, rail, Reformation Symphony, Thuringerwald, Trabant, train, train station, travel, Wittenberg
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Experiencing Germany With Three of My Nieces. Part 1 – Hamburg
This spring I had the pleasure of being a tour host for 3 of my nieces on a trip to Germany. All three were approximately the age I was when I first lived in Germany, and I would be traveling … Continue reading
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Tagged Alster, backpack, beer, bratwurst, Brussles, Casper David Friedrich, currywurst, Dammtor, Doener Kebab, duffel bag, England, Eurail, Europe, Eurostar, Fischmarkt, fish and chips, food, Gansemarkt, gelato, Germany, HafenCity, Hamburg, Hamburg Hauptbahnhof, harbor, hotel, Imbiss, Kunsthalle, Landungsbruecke, lisbon, luggage, National Gallery, Nikoli, painting, photo, rail pass, Reeperbahn, S-Bahn, Semester at Sea, Speicherstadt, St. Pauli, Stanstead, study abroad, subway, suitcase, tea, travel, U-Bahn, University
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