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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 […]
The Wandering Years On my recent trip to Germany, I caught a news story on TV that was of interest to me (although my understanding of spoken German is very limited) and perhaps to others with German heritage. The story was about a traveling craftsman and his wanderbuch. This gentleman was an apprentice bricklayer, and […]
The month has flown by again and I don’t know about where you are but we are having a hard time getting spring to arrive. It is warm today and the trees have popped and birds are singing so I hope we here in the Midwest have at least a few days of spring weather. […]
In the spring of 1849, a coffin-ship called the Hannah, carrying 180 Irish emigrants fleeing Ireland’s potato famine, hit an ice reef in the strait near Cape Ray, off the coast of Newfoundland.
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 […]