Tues 17th –  Today we head to the ancient city of Trier, famous for its ‘”Porta Nigra” the Black Gate from when the Romans ruled here.  We are getting our folks used to the train and it seems like we meet new friends on and off the train!    We approached the Gate and of […]

Since I am away for parts of September and October I will write about our trips in lieu of a newsletter which will return end of October.  What a whirlwind we have been on, just now having time to put a few notes down about our trip so far. Day 1 – Seems like a […]

One thing I would like to suggest if you visit Germany is to definly try to squeeze in a cruise up or down the Rhine River, even if it is just a day trip like we do so often. There is no better vantage point than from the middle of the River and it is […]

Time has flown by on our latest trip and we were busy from morning to night. I just did a private tour with some sisters (and their niece) from Pittsburgh, PA to visit their ancestral hometowns in Germany and France. Our first hometown was Flieden, Germany, which is in Hessen near Fulda, Germany. We arrived […]

Happy New Year! Already in the middle of the first month, can you believe it?  Time is going fast and now is the time to start thinking of travel plans for the spring or summer.  I wanted to talk a bit about our upcoming trip to the Northwest of Germany in May.  One of our […]

We spent a day in the lovely town of Freiburg, which is in very southern Germany.  Our first stop was to the Staatsarchiv Freiburg.  We had a wonderful overview of the Archive by a Herr Strauss.  He had prepared a great lecture and showed us how to navigate their website by showing us what is […]

So off to the “Vogtsbauernhof” Black Forest Freilichtmuseum on Tuesday.  Weather seems to be holding and we had a beautiful ride down through the countryside.  Rolling green hills (or a little bit bigger than hills) with the tall pine trees that give the “Black Forest” their name.  In the midst of the green mountainside typical […]

So, no time for a newsletter this month but here is an update on our Baden trip. Third day in Germany and things are great! We dodged rainfall today when it only rained when we were inside and when we were outside the sun came out. Temps were good too. After spending the first day […]

I’m back home to the HEAT after a nice cool trip around Ireland. Here are a few notes about our trip. So on Sunday the group arrived in Dublin and we met for a quick bite before some of us decided to take a Historical Walking tour. We met our young guide, a graduate of […]