tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-203265402024-03-13T12:54:08.161-05:00Through My EyesA little bit of everything-- photography, family, homeschooling, life with MSGabriellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05162476315884555546noreply@blogger.comBlogger1468125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20326540.post-27032620084546591942019-03-29T20:48:00.000-05:002019-03-30T11:49:12.743-05:00December 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
More memories from my mom from the first week of December:</div>
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So, I am back from Texas after a wonderful week with Gabrielle and Rachel and their families. I was so glad I extended my Thanksgiving trip - I loved every day of that extra week. I got to teach seminary 2 and a half days which I loved and which I think was a help to Gabrielle who was suffering from a very bad cold all last week. And I actually cooked meals every day, something I haven't done for a long time. Why is it more fun cooking at someone else's house? I helped with some housework and laundry and tried to ease Gabrielle's load every way I could. But we also found time to watch two movies together on the computer - both really sad. </div>
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On Friday Rachel drove back up from San Antonio with her kids and we went to a fantastically wonderful re-creation of Bethlehem put on by a church in the town of Burnet, about 45 minutes from Austin. It was like Nauvoo, with people dressed in costumes and all the shops and tradesmen re-enacting real life 2000 years ago. It was just magical. If ever you get a chance to go, it is worth the trip! And it was free (they just asked for a donation, which I gladly and generously gave) including cookies and hot chocolate afterwards. Everything about it was infused with the spirit of Christ. We loved it so much. It was so much fun to go with Rosalia and Jacob - they are perfect ages for that sort of experience. </div>
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And then Saturday I was able to go to the Turner boys' piano recital and for the very first time, hear my grandchildren perform. They all did perfectly, of course :) And then, to top it all off, Sunday I was able to hear Brigham perform with the Austin Youth Orchestra and was just blown away by the quality. And heartened to see that in Texas the youth orchestras are NOT 99% Asian :) Such talented and accomplished young musicians, including my very own grandson Brigham! It was a joy to hear him practicing diligently every single day, with NO PRODDING from his mother! [Not all of her boys are quite that self-disciplined, lest you think she has a life of ease with nothing but sweetness and bliss... her boys are quite normal in their resistance to doing what their mother wants them to do :)] </div>
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Another highlight of my week and of this Christmas season was going to a stunning production of the Nutcracker ballet with Gabrielle and Rachel - I have always loved ballet (and secretly longed to be a ballet dancer) and it was even better to be there with my daughters. I think I might have to make that a tradition every year. </div>
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Brigham was diagnosed with a slight heart murmur when he had his sports physical before cross-country season. He had an EKG as a very young kid-- maybe 3 or 4? It was nothing to worry about then, but the doctor thought it was a good idea to check it out one more time, now that Brigham's growing bigger. Happily, it's still nothing to worry about!</div>
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I bought this cool model of the arc of the covenant online. It opens up and inside are representations of the tablets with the ten commandments, the stick of Jesse, and a vessel with manna.</div>
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This is the display I made for the Temple of Solomon seminary lesson. In front we have the sacrificial lamb, then the baptismal font, followed by the break offering, the lamp stand, the incense, and behind the veil is the holy of holies where the arc of the covenant is kept.</div>
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Thanksgiving!! I took hardly any pictures, shame on me!! We had the Welches, Jardines, grandma and grandpa Frandsen, Uncle Abe, Aunt Eva, and Uncle Christian. Getting a picture with the grandkids was pretty comical. </div>
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<span id="goog_626078625"></span><span id="goog_626078626"></span>This is from a letter my mom wrote about Thanksgiving-- thank goodness she is such a diligent letter-writer, because I didn't write down a thing!<br />
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Dearest Family -<br />
Happy Thanksgiving to all! I am writing this letter from Gabrielle's beautiful home in Austin, Texas where 21 Frandsens gathered for a most wonderful Thanksgiving celebration. We missed having Naomi and Brigham and Benjamin and their families with us, but were so grateful that so many were able to be together. I know it involved significant sacrifice and many hours of travel and resulted in some tired and irritable children, but I think we would all say it was worth it. It certainly was for me and Daddy. Here are some things I especially loved:<br />
*Hearing all the wonderful music produced by my children and grandchildren - guitar, piano, organ, violin, and lots and lots of singing. There is probably nothing I love more than this.<br />
*Preparing the feast with my daughters - in my opinion, this is the best part of Thanksgiving - even better than the eating. And I must say, my daughters are fabulous cooks! They excel at all my favorite dishes: stuffing, sweet potatoes, rolls, and pies! Oh my, what an embarrassment of pies we had! Each one absolutely delicious (and I would know since I sampled each and every one...) The only thing we did not have enough of was ovens. I should have gotten up earlier to get the turkey in sooner. But we adjusted our plans and had a late afternoon feast and our patient wait was well rewarded.<br />
*Having Deborah with us! It was so wonderful to share the meal with Deborah and her friend Joey. I love the ancient idea of hospitality and enlarging our tent but I seldom remember to invite others in to our circle - Deborah's presence added so so so much to the whole experience.<br />
*Seeing the cousins interact - One of my deepest desires is that my children's children will know and love each other so this was one of my favorite parts of the weekend. Rosalia and Jacob feel completely at home with Gabrielle's family. How wonderful that is to me!<br />
*All the conversations - I didn't participate in as many as I wished, but I loved just observing all the circles of conversation that took place. It especially warmed my heart to see my sons-in-law engaged in deep discussions - we have really smart and interesting people in our family!<br />
*Our family variety show - the fulfillment of another deep yearning that I have. I loved seeing Joseph step up as the MC and show his wit and charm and prowess as a magician:)<br />
*The Affirmation Gathering - Christian took it upon himself to plan a central Texas Thanksgiving gathering for Affirmation on Saturday night and Gabrielle and Ben were so gracious to open up their home and hearts and spend the entire evening hosting this. It was a beautiful event and I know every one who came felt the love of Christ in this home.<br />
*Going to Gabrielle's church meetings yesterday. All the other visitors had already left so I was the only one who got to enjoy the beautiful spirit of her Ward. They had a special musical sacrament meeting which was just so so wonderful and sincere and moving. Brigham had a small but really meaningful part sharing his reflections on the hymn "Where Can I Turn For Peace?" It was miraculous in several ways: it was a miracle that he remembered about the assignment literally 5 minutes before time to leave for Church. It was a miracle that he and Gabrielle were able to write a beautiful talk so quickly. And then another miracle to see Brigham stand up and deliver it with amazing poise and polish just a few minutes later! He is a really special young man (all my grandchildren are special and extraordinary). The rest of the meetings were extra good too and I was kicking myself for not arranging the flight times so that Daddy and the BYU kids could have been there with us.<br />
*Seeing Gabrielle teach seminary this morning - there is absolutely nothing this mother loves more than seeing her children excel at something I love so much. And Gabrielle excels at teaching - she loves her students and they love her. She loves and knows and studies the scriptures and that shows in her teaching. She loves the Savior and His grace and she has His spirit. And that infused every second of her class this morning. My joy was full.<br />
Here are just a few things I wish had been different:<br />
*The family movie outing - I got tickets for everyone to see "The Good Dinosaur" together (I stayed home with Mary Alice), hoping it would be fun and memorable. But it's hard to find a movie the entire family can enjoy and I fear I totally missed the mark on this one : too scary for the little ones and too juvenile for everyone else. At least that was the impression I got from the comments when they got back. Oh well...<br />
OK - this letter is way too full now too! I will end with one final expression of gratitude for the blessings of a family and a life that is far far better than I deserve. I will try harder to be deserving of all of you. <br />
I hope all of you will celebrate Advent in preparation for a spirit-filled Christmas. Call Rosalynde or Rachel if you need ideas ♡♡<br />
All my love to all of you-<br />
Christie/Mama<br />
PS - another happy memory:seeing "Once I was a Beehive" with Gabrielle, Rosalynde, Elena, Eva, and Christian on Thanksgiving night<br />
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AYO fall concert. Brigham is in the Philharmonic this year!<br />
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Brigham will never be too old for Kapla blocks. :-)<br />
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Another cross country race! Run, Brigham, Run!<br />
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Ben and the boys came along to this race. This is the first one that Joseph and Moses have seen. I wish I could get Joseph to run cross country!<br />
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Moses waiting on the haybale for Brigham's race.<br />
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I really like the Royals cross country team, and cross country as a sport overall. Here are a bunch of runners from several teams saying a prayer before one of the racec.<br />
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Beautiful sunset after the race.</div>
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Speaking of which, driving Brigham to cross country every morning gives us the chance to see the most beautiful sunrises.</div>
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And, for good measure, sweet Sandy the dog.<br />
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No Halloween pictures this year, because Halloween afternoon/evening, Ben and I drove out to Houston to buy a new car! We got a dark grey Dodge Grand Caravan. It has dual sliding doors and stow-and-go middle and back seats.<br />
We'll keep the Astro, because it is a darn useful vehicle, but the minivan will be so much better for me to drive, especially putting my wheelchair in and out of the car.<br />
It comes at a good time, too, because, sadly, while driving through a ridiculously narrow ATM lane at Bank of America, Ben accidentally scraped up the side of the Astro pretty badly. Ah, well.<br />
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We had a lunar eclipse! I sat out in the front yard with my tripod and 200mm zoom lens and took pictures from the totality back to the full moon. Click on it to see it full size.</div>
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Leaves from an oak tree in front of the full moon.<br />
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Cat sculpture Mosey made at his homeschool art class a couple of years ago.<br />
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Mosey helping me make my best invention ever-- a whiteboard table. Our school table is old and scarred and ugly. I bought a piece of white wallboard at HomeDepot which happens to be the same material as a whiteboard (at a fraction of the cost). We cut it to size and glued it to the top of our school table. Mosey helped by walking on it to press the board down onto the glue. :-)Now it works as a table and work surface all in one. Genius! :-)</div>
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Rosie and Jacob enjoying the pool and popsicles-- still definitely summer here in Austin.<br />
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Brigham at the food court at the Round Rock outlet shops after a cross country race with Ben and me.<br />
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Now a couple of Joseph:<br />
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At the archery shooting range.<br />
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After church one day, inexplicably, Joseph wanted to dress up as a Muslim extremist, wearing his suit, a ski mask, and holding a copy of the Koran. Go figure.</div>
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Ah, my sweet Moses. Always such pleasant expressions on his face. :-)<br />
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Brigham practicing his violin. He is getting so good.<br />
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And here are a few rare photos of me. I had just gotten my hair cut and wanted to take pictures so I could try to style it the same way the girl who cuts my hair does it. I can never quite get it right.<br />
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We started the day off with a cross country race for Brigham. We brought donuts for the team to celebrate Brigham's birthday after the race, and ended up starting a team tradition.</div>
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It was a hot, hot August day for a race, with most of the course being in the sun.</div>
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Happy Birthday to my boys! Traditional white chocolate raspberry truffle cheesecake for Joseph, and for Brigham a new one-- Too Much Chocolate Cake with a chocolate ganache frosting. It's my favorite cake now.<br />
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<br />Gabriellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05162476315884555546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20326540.post-78252726455386707902019-03-07T19:56:00.001-06:002019-03-07T20:05:27.389-06:00August 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Visit from the Jardines!</div>
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Joseph with MaryAlice. He may be reluctant, but he holds her like a natural. :-)<br />
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Rachel and me with Mary Alice, Jacob, and Rosalia.</div>
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Delicious crepes that Rachel made for us.<br />
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Another race, August 29</div>
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We went into town just for a minute to find some car-polishing stuff so that Ben could try and buff out a couple of nicks on the bumper (due to backing into a pole at our hotel in Italy...). And then it was back to the airport. Turn in the car. Check into our flight. Board the plane.<br />
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Joseph was my seat partner again. I got Ben to take pictures of me modeling the sleep wrap device I made. <br />
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And then I took a few of him.<br />
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Then home again, home again, jiggedy jog! What a great trip.Gabriellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05162476315884555546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20326540.post-41189526602212290732016-07-23T11:21:00.000-05:002016-08-15T13:33:14.808-05:00Europe day 23: Munich-Munster<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Sunday morning we went to church in Munich.</div>
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This was the first ward we went to with any significan American ex-pat presence. Still so impressed with how friendly everyone at church has been!</div>
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After church we drove around Munich for an hour or so, trying to take in some of the most important city sights, especially Marienplatz, the main city square.</div>
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Rathaus (city hall) in Marienplatz</div>
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Closer detail on the glockenspiel in the Rathaus.</div>
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Driving around the city and over the Munich River, we came to the Deutches Musem. So impressive!!</div>
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Munich was also the location of the craziest traffic lights I have ever seen. Good luck figuring out this one! I just tried to go when everyone ese around me was going, and stop when everyone else was stopping. :-)</div>
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We couldn't stay in Munich for too long, because we were headed back up north. This was another last-minute change of plans. Joseph discovered that one of Europe's most extensive tank collections was in Munster, near Hamburg, way up north. We couldn't resist, even though it was very far out of our way. Compared to Texas, nothing is TOO far away in Europe, I guess.</div>
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Then it was off to the tank museum!! The Deutches Panzermuseum (German Tank Museum) is concerned with the documentation of the history of German armoured troops since 1917.</div>
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The heart of the exhibition is a collection of about 40 Bundeswehr and former East German (Nationale Volksarmee) tanks as well as 40 German tanks and other Wehrmacht vehicles from the Second World War. In addition there are tanks from the Red Army, British Army and United States Army from the war, as well as other modern tanks such as the Israeli Merkava. Most of the vehicles are in working order, with restoration work ongoing to render all examples functional. The restoration staff of the museum do extensive research on every vehicle in order to return it to its original configuration and paint scheme.</div>
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The large collection of armoured vehicles includes some rare or unique types. For example, the museum has an authentic replica of an A7V German First World War tank, the only example of its type in Europe, and an armoured police vehicle from the Weimar Republic era. In addition it has one of only two existing Sturmpanzer VI as well as a prototype version of the Jagdpanzer IV. From the post-war era there is a range of Bundeswehr prototypes, including a Leopard 1, Kanonenjagdpanzer tank destroyer and MBT-70, the abortive US-German design. The interior of an American M48 Patton tank, situated outside, can be entered via a flight of steps.</div>
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Then it was back in the car and back to Frankfurt. We debated going up to Hamburg, since it was really SO close (less than an hour), but in the ended decided not to. We wouldn't have time to do it justice, and would just have been driving late into the night.<br />
So, back to Frankfurt it was.<br />
We did drive through the Munster city center. Ben knew someone from work who was from there, so here is his documentation that he was there!<br />
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We got to Frankfurt in pretty good time, and checked into our hotel.<br />
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For our last dinner in Germany, we walked down the street to the Gasthof Naturfreundehaus.<br />
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Of course, Brigham was already there, waiting for us and reading. :-)<br />
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Our last meal was one of the best German meals we had.<br />
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Saturday morning, we got up and checked out of our hotel. We got onto the B179 to head back into Germany, but before we crossed the border, we stopped again at the Highline 179/Ehrenberg Castle parking lot. I really wanted to see the castle ruins up on top. Ben was my hero and carried me on his shoulders all the way up!! I'm not sure what other people thought of us, but I thought it was awesome.</div>
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After making our way back down, we kept driving down the highway toward Germany.<br />
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Such a beautiful place!<br />
We stopped just outside of Füssen to check out the tree walk.<br />
This ended up being pretty awesome. It's a complex of bridges built at the tree-top level across a big chasm, Austria on one side, Germany on the other. Here's the website description: "You can experience the nature of the forest at close quarters across the 480 metres of the tree-top trail in the Ziegelwies Füssen Forest Centre, which opened in 2013. The trail runs at heights of up to 20 metres above the forest floor. The wooden construction, which is borne by just four supports, runs delicately past the tree tops. It gives you insights into the forest, as well as wonderful views of the mountains around the town of Füssen."<br />
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On the other side was a slide that went all the way down the mountainside.<br />
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Germany on one side, Austria the other!<br />
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Finally, it was time to leave Bavaria. :-(<br />
Final glimpse of Neuschwanstein as we drove past.<br />
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It took us a couple of hours to get from Bavaria to Munich, stopping for Kebap along the way.<br />
Our first stop in Munichw was the BMW museum!<br />
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Joseph taking a rest on the floor of the parking garage. :-)<br />
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The first part of it was basically a showroom for current models and a few classics.<br />
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Joseph's favorite car:<br />
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And Mosey's:<br />
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Brigham didn't have a favorite car. He wanted to read. :-)<br />
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The next part was more of a museum, with displays about the history of BMW and lots of different vehicles from different time periods to look at.<br />
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There were a few pretty cool art exhibits. This one had metal ball bearings on fishline or something like that, which raised and lowered into various shapes.<br />
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This one is all the different BMW model plaques.<br />
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Brigham didn't want to see the museum. He wanted to read. :-)<br />
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We stayed the night in a Best Western out by the airport. <br />
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As it got dark, we drove back into Munich to find food. The Aldis we were looking for in a shopping mall was closed, so we ended up going to a convenience store for Sunday food, and then stopped at Wienerwald-- a German/Austrian fastfood chain. It wasn't great, which I guess is why it hasn't taken off in the US?<br />
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This is the Zugspitze area of the Austrian Alps, and is a destination all it's own. Another place I'd love to come back to.</div>
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But, our destination wasn't Zugspitze, but Fussen, Germany, home of Neuschwanstein Castle!</div>
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We drove back into Germany-- about a 30 minute drive through spectacular scenery.</div>
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Schloss Hohenschwangau was the childhood residence of King Ludwig II (Mad King Ludwig), and is a much more authentic castle than Neuschwanstein. It was built in 1547 (well, completed then), although pretty extensive remodeling happened in the 1830's.</div>
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It's up on top of a hill, although not as high as Neuschwanstein. We walked up the hill, which was not wheelchair friendly due to lots of steps.</div>
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We didn't do the full tour, becuase it would have been too long of a wait, but we wandered the grounds a bit and then headed back down the hill-- this time down the longer, but much more wheelchair-friendly, back road.<br />
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On this side of the castle, we had a good view of the beautiful Alpensee. It is the most gorgeous shade of blue/green.<br />
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And then it was time to see Neuschwanstein Castle! This is the most famous, but possibly the most overrated, castle in Germany. It's amazing, of course, a fairytale castle. It's also mostly fantasy. It was never used as a real castle, although a fort had existed on the site before Ludwig built the castle.<br />
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The walk up the hill isn't easy! Mosey was especially tired after all the walking we'd already been doing.<br />
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Looking back down the steep hill.<br />
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We had to make room for these guys several time. This is the way to get up the hill!<br />
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On the way down we stopped to get Quarkbällchen-- Bavarian snowballs, which are like donut holes. Yummy!<br />
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The Alpensee is so beautiful. We decided to go on a canoe ride before heading out.<br />
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Ben swam back to the dock!<br />
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We stopped for food in Reutte (McDonalds I think? Something distinctly non-German...) before getting back on the B179 toward Austria.<br />
The night before, we were greeted with this amazing sight:<br />
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(Actually this is from the other direction, but you get the idea).<br />
Those are the Ehrenberg Castle ruins upon the hillside, and the Highline 179 Bridge right next to it.<br />
The Highline 179 bridge is a 406-meter-long rope suspension bridge 376 feet above highway B179, crossing from the Ehrenberg ruins on one side of the chasm, to Fort Claudia on the other. It was the worlds largest pedestrian suspension bridge, until another one in China took it's place a few months ago. :-)<br />
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Ben and the boys hiked up the mountain to the entrance to the bridge.<br />
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Joseph was really not comfortable on this bridge, but he made himself cross. I'm so proud of him! Of course, halfway through, some brusque German woman marched up behind him, lifted his arm off the rail, and squeezed past him without saying a word. :-)<br />
This is something I would NEVER, EVER do!<br />
After crossing the bridge, they stayed up at the top of the mountain for a while, exploring the Ehrenberg ruins.<br />
What a great day!Gabriellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05162476315884555546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20326540.post-76349665136625632502016-07-23T11:02:00.000-05:002016-08-14T21:58:52.944-05:00Europe trip day 20: Hohenzollern Castle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
On Thursday, we decided to completely disregard my itinerary, and take a detour back up into Germany to see the Hohenzollern castle. It was a long drive, and took a whole day out of our schedule, but it was worth it!</div>
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But first, we drove BACK into Switzerland, and along the southern shore of the Bodensee. We had been very close to the northern shore of this lake on the second day of our trip, near Freiberg. Ben had wanted to see it then, but we couldn't take the time. So it was nice to have a second chance.</div>
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Ben likes to swim in lakes! So we stopped here for him to take a dip.</div>
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Boats along the shore.<br />
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I met a very nice couple while I was waiting on the pier. I guess Swiss people are friendly after all. :-)<br />
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We stopped by a market to get some Swiss cheese (after all, we are in Switzerland), before getting back on the road.<br />
We made it up to Hohenzollern Castle in the early afternoon. It was a pretty drive out of the mountains, and into the more rolling hills and flatter lands of central Germany.<br />
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Hohenzollern is visible from a long ways away, being at the very top of a hill overlooking the valley.<br />
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Castles have been on this site since the 11th century, although this is basically the 3rd structure to be built.<br />
We parked down below and took a shuttle bus up to the castle entrance. We walked up a winding road before finding ourselves in the castle keep.<br />
We JUST missed the English tour. Seriously, by 2 minutes! And they wouldn't let us in. :-( So we waited a half hour or so and took the German tour as well. I understood very little of it, but it was still really cool.<br />
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Brigham and Joseph waiting for the tour, looking at the map.<br />
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View from the castle courtyard.<br />
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Mosey's up there in the window-- can you see him?<br />
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And here's Ben and Brigham.<br />
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The tour was pretty crowded, so I borrowed pictures from Google instead.<br />
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The courtyard:<br />
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And now a bunch from the grounds:<br />
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On the way back, we stopped at one more castle-- Lichtenstein Castle (not to be confused with Liechtenstein Castle). This one was pretty awesome. It's built right on the edge of a cliff!<br />
We drove up the mountain and saw the back side of it first.<br />
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The grounds were not at all wheelchair accessible, but Ben and the boys walked around it for a bit.<br />
But the best views are from the valley below. We spent a few minutes to drive down a switch-back road to the valley floor to see the castle up on the cliff.<br />
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This was the front of the "hotel." So funny!<br />
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This was the inside of the "hotel." It seems like it used to be a school or something? There were empty rooms that seemed very much like classrooms. The whole thing was puzzling.<br />
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As we drove toward Lucerne, Ben called hotels.com and complained to them about where we stayed. Hotels.com has been really great this trip, and they ended up giving us a refund for the night. Nice!<br />
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Our main destination for the day was Lucerne. We got into the city and found an underground parking structure to park for the afternoon. Walking toward the elevator, we saw this lovely advertisement.<br />
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Google translate says that it reads: I have more leakage than most mannermouse. Good, there's the swiss farmers.<br />
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Apparently it is part of a series. The other two look like this:<br />
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My milk may contain traces of alpenpanorama. Good, there's the swiss farmers.</div>
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Sweeter, as I have only the fruits of my farmers. Good, there's the swiss farmers.\<br />
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OK, I'm a bit confused? They are cute ads, though.<br />
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Brigham reading in Lucerne.<br />
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Our plan was to take a cruise on Lake Lucerne.<br />
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Joseph looking off into the distance at Lake Lucerne.<br />
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We didn't have to wait long at all to get on the boat. Ben thought he might stay behind and work, but changed his mind at the last minute. I'm glad!<br />
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View back at the city from Lake Lucerne.<br />
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Richard Wagner's house on the shore.<br />
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Look at the castle on the hillside behind the city!<br />
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I got a kick out of these Japanese tourists, engrossed in their phones as we were out on the water in one of the most beautiful places on earth. :-)<br />
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After our cruise, we drove through Lucerne just a bit, stopping at the Lion Monument.<br />
It commemorates the Swiss Guards who were massacred in 1792 during the French Revolution, and was quite moving.<br />
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On the way out of the city, Ben wanted to go swimming in the lake. So he and Mosey braved the cold water!<br />
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In the late afternoon, we got back on the road towards Austria. But guess what little country is between Switzerland and Austria? Liechtenstein! This made country #11 on our trip!<br />
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As we drove into the city of Balzers, we saw this castle perched up on a hill overlooking the city.<br />
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This is the Gutenberg Castle. It was begun in the 1200's, finished in the 1500's, and then underwent reconstruction after a fire in the early 1800's. It's not inhabited now, but is used as a museum.<br />
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Here's Brigham, my castle loving boy, in front of the castle.<br />
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The other side is even cooler, but we didn't stop for a picture. Here's one via Google:<br />
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And here's the castle overlooking the city by day.<br />
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There were so many places on this trip I wished we could have stopped to spend another day or two. Liechtenstein was definitely one of these.<br />
But, onwards and upwards. We kept on driving back into Austria and found our hotel, Hotel Landhaus Sonnblick. Thankfully a lot nicer than the hostel the night before! :-)<br />
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Gabriellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05162476315884555546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20326540.post-6695050048177874822016-07-23T10:51:00.000-05:002016-08-14T17:57:51.401-05:00Europe trip day 18: Milan-Switzerland<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Wednesday was our last day in Italy.</div>
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We checked out of the hotel and got on the road. It was about a 5 hour drive to Milan, our final Italy destination.</div>
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Milan is an interesting city! It's a combination of modern and ancient.</div>
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One of the coolest modern buildings I saw there is called Bosco Verticale. Actually, they're two buildings.</div>
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I just love these buildings! </div>
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A couple of other things to note about Milan:</div>
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--It's hard to drive here! The roads don't seem to have any lines painted on them to divide the lanes. It was a bit of a guessing game to tell how many lanes a street had, and where they were.</div>
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--Milan, and Italy in general, is not as clean as Austria, Germany, and the other European countries we've seen. Not sure why. There was quite a bit of trash on the roads.</div>
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--We've seen lots of beggars on our whole trip, and our favorites are those that are doing something for the money they're asking for-- playing violin, working marionettes, etc.. Here in Milan, we saw a young man juggling. Or, trying to. Poor guy kept dropping the balls. It was pretty comical to see, but a little sad, too. I've never seen someone look so downcast and disgusted with himself as this kid, every time he dropped the ball. :-) :-(</div>
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We made a whirlwind tour of the city trying to find a public bathroom somewhere, anywhere! Finally we gave up and went to a fancy hotel right next to the Duomo where we pretended to be guests and I went in to use the restroom.</div>
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Then, on to the Duomo.</div>
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Milan Cathedral is the largest church in Italy (not counting Rome), and the 3rd largest in the world. It is a gothic building which took almost 600 years to finish-- 1386-1965. </div>
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When we first got there, we saw the enormous line just to get tickets. We decided not to try to take the tour, but just to walk around outside. We kind of split up, and I ended up going up the ramp to the square by myself. As I did so, some guards asked if I wanted to go inside the cathedral. I tried to explain that I had no tickets, but they didn't seem bothered. So I quickly gathered Ben and the boys together, and the guard took us directly to the handicapped entrance. So we got to go in free, and without waiting in any lines! How nice of the guards.</div>
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The inside is about as amazing as the outside. I especially loved the stained glass-- the best I've seen in any cathedral in Europe.</div>
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This is St. Bartholomew. Legend has it that he was skinned alive and beheaded. Many works of art portray him holding his own skin. It took us a while to figure out what it was, but once Joseph pointed it out, yep, you could see that he was skinless, carrying his skin over his shoulders. Gruesome!<br />
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More stained glass. Each panel was incredibly detailed.<br />
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Brigham finding another place to read. :-)<br />
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The amazing ceiling.<br />
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After touring the inside, we walked completely around the building. It's seriously amazing.<br />
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Then, we were back in the car! Milan isn't too far from the border of Switzerland. <br />
Most other borders in the EU, you just cross over without even noticing-- like going across state lines in the U.S. But Switzerland is different. They stop you and inspect the car, although they don't ask for passports.<br />
As we drove near to and then into Switzerland, the landscape changed dramatically. The northern Italian/Swiss Alps are truly breathtaking. I took pictures out the car window, and felt like my eyes could not get enough.<br />
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Seriously, so pretty.<br />
One thing I liked best were the cute cows on the mountainside, all of which wore real cowbells! I kept trying to get a picture, but it was hard out of a moving car, so this one from google will have to suffice:<br />
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We stopped at a small market in the mountains for bread and cheese and yogurt. Poor Brigham got chastised by the shopkeeper. Maybe the Swiss aren't the friendliest?<br />
Finally we made it to our hotel. Or, what we thought was a hotel. It was advertised as a hotel on hotels.com, and every picture posted on the site indicated that it was a hotel. But, it was not a hotel. It was a hostel, and not a nice one for that, although the setting and view could not be beat. The building itself, though, was smelly, dirty, and we were not at all happy, especially for what we paid for our room... But, what can you do. We tried to make the best of it. Ben took some pictures to document the quality, or lack thereof, to send to hotels.com in the morning.<br />
We survived the night, however, although it did taint our impression of Switzerland just a bit. :-)<br />
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The hotel we stayed at in Venice wasn't really a hotel-- it was more of a bed and breakfast kind of place. The rooms were very homey-- this cat walked around like he owned the place and made friends with Mosey. The owners of the hotel lived there, and when we went to the dining room for breakfast, they made us food to order!</div>
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Joseph in his room, recovering from all the traveling we've been doing.<br />
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We were excited to go see Venice! We drove back to the freeway, and then across a long bridge to the island of Venice. We parked near the big train station, and then wandered around for a bit until we found the right place to board one of the water buses down the grand canal.<br />
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As we made our way down toward St. Mark's Square, I tried to read from my guide book and make note of some of the cool places we passed by.<br />
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Our main destination was Saint Mark's Square.<br />
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We toured St. Mark's Basilica first. We were able to bypass the entire line because of my wheelchair. :-)<br />
St. Mark's is an example of Italo-Byzantine architecture. The building as it exists now was begun around 1063, and completed in the 1500's.<br />
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It is most famous for it's mosaics, both inside and outside.<br />
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The inside mosaics are stunning. Much of it is in gold, and if you're inside during the right time of day, the lights are turned on, making the entire interior shine.<br />
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The Pala d'Oro is on the altar. It shows the life of Christ and thelife of St. Mark. It's made of gold enamel, and was created between 976 and 1345. The altarpiece is 3 meters wide by 2 meters tall. It is made of gold and silver, 187 enamel plaques, and 1,927 gems. These include 526 pearls, 330 garnets, 320 emeralds, 255 sapphires, 183 amethysts, 175 agates, 75 rubies, 34 topazes, 16 carnelians, and 13 jaspers. (Thank you Wikipedia!)<br />
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After that, we waited for our ticket time to tour the Doge's palace. <br />
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Brigham and Dad napped on the ground.<br />
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Joseph gave me weird looks. He loves it when I take his picture.<br />
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Mosey rode on the back of one of the famous St. Mark's lions. There are lion statues everywhere!!</div>
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I took pictures. This is the clock tower on the north side of the square.</div>
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On the top, these two characters ring the bell on the hour.<br />
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This is the winged lion, which came to symbolize Venice and St. Mark. It's known as the Lion of Venice, and was probably created sometime between 400-300 B.C.! That's old!<br />
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Another lion on St. Mark's Basilica</div>
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The Campanile:<br />
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Finally it was time for our tour of the Doge's palace.<br />
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From the canal<br />
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We went back to our hotel/B&B for a few hours, and then decided to head into the city once more for the evening. We were tired and some people really wanted to stay home, but I'm so glad we went in again! Venice at night is not to be missed, seriously. It wasn't nearly so crowded, the temperature was cool, and the lights from the city on the water is magical. We wandered around the city, ate dinner, bought gelato, and then headed back.<br />
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Venice was amazing! Even better than I thought it would be.Gabriellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05162476315884555546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20326540.post-36379490339655712602016-07-23T10:45:00.000-05:002016-08-13T22:45:30.492-05:00Europe trip day 15-16: Berchtesgaden Eagle's Nest-Slovenia-Trieste<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Saturday morning we planned on going up to Berchtesgaden, which was about 30 minutes or so from our hotel. But first we stopped at an Aldi's just down the road for food. I stayed in the car with the boys while Ben went inside. I had the car on with the AC blowing because it was quite warm outside. Suddenly, a man came striding towards me in the parking lot. Before he got to the car, I rolled down the window, wondering what was wrong. He immediately launched into me-- maybe he was having a bad day? But he was sure to tell me that the way I had parked was unacceptable. I had parked a bit diagonally, crossing one of the lines. Since I was in an handicapped space with no one parked on either side of me, I hadn't realized how offensive this would be. :-) Next he told me just how much damage I was doing to the environment by letting my car idle. I was very taken aback! Not sure what to say, I mumbled an apology and turned off the car. After he walked off to his car, I turned my car back on and sat there dumbfounded until Ben came back out from the store. </div>
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Bemused, we got back on the road toward the Berchtesgaden Salt works. </div>
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This whole area of the world is known for its salt mines. The oldest salt mine in the world was located up in Hallstatt, as a matter of fact! Salt mines in this area have been worked for over 7,000 years, since the time of the Celtics, although this particular mine wasn't established until the 1100's. Early mining was done by hand, digging out solid salt rock crystals. Later techniques involved pumping fresh water into salt mine caverns. After several weeks of absorbing salt from the walls, the water was pumped out to a plant to be evaporated and processed into commerical salt. These days, the old salt mine is open for tours. </div>
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The whole area is just totally beautiful. Snow topped mountains, crystal-clear rivers, picturesque villages nestled in forested valleys. I could seriously get used to it.</div>
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The tour itself was tons of fun! I didn't take my camera, so I borrowed pictures from the internet to remember it.</div>
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First, you start out by getting into some super-fancy cover-alls, and boarding this little train. Then you go deep, deep into the mountain. through a tunnel just large enough for the train. Try not to think about it too much or you'll get clautrophobic. </div>
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Once inside, there are a number of different caverns the guide takes you through, explaining the history and techniques of salt mining. At one point you board this wooden barge and glide across a perfectly still and clear subterranean lake. <br />
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About halfway through, a light show begins.<br />
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Then all the lights go out. Cool!<br />
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Of course, the highlight of the tour was the slide! There were actually two of them. This was the first, and the longest. I wasn't sure I'd be able to do it, but the guides were really nice, helping me onto the side, and then bringing my wheelchair down the ramp next to the slide.<br />
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This is the view from the top. It is STEEP!! But before you have time to get too nervous, off you go. The wood slide is polished smooth, and the ride is very fast. It was super fun!!<br />
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Totally cheesy picture, but this was what it was like. We got on as a family, each person holding on to the one in front. <br />
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After the salt mine, we headed further up the mountains. The road was steep and windy. I was driving with the thumb-button hand controls, and thought my hand would about fall off. We were headed toward Obersalzburg and Hitler's Eagles Nest.</div>
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We knew it would be crowded, being a Saturday in the middle of summer, and it really was. The parking lots were full and cars were parked quite a ways down the road. But we were lucky enough to find a handicapped parking place. Ben bought tickets for the tour.</div>
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First, you board one of the several red shuttle buses waiting for passengers.<br />
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Waaaay up high you can see the Eagle's Nest complex.</div>
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Then, it is through a long, dark tunnel, and up a very long elevator.<br />
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Finally, you emerge into what feels like the top of the world. The views are amazing.</div>
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Then we were back in the car, heading back down the mountain, over to the A10, and back into Austria. This was a really beautiful drive.<br />
We stayed in a little ski town called Sankt Michael im Lungau. This was about as picture-perfect an Austrian mountain village as you could find. <br />
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I especially loved that all the buildings had flower boxes under the window.<br />
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We stayed in the Jufa Hotel Lungau. They originally put us in upstairs rooms, but there were no elevators at all! So they moved Ben and I downstairs, which was very nice. Also very loud-- the hotel was filled with families-- lots of kids milling about and people hanging out and talking in the hotel common areas. It was nice to see Austrian families on vacation.<br />
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We checked in just in time to hear a marching band going down the street, but couldn't get down fast enough to see it.<br />
We explored the town a little bit, got our tires filled up at a gas station, and ended the night eating pizza at a cute little restaurant in the middle of town.<br />
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Sunday morning we ate breakfast at the hotel, and then drove about an hour to Klagenfurt am Wörthersee to go to church. This was one of the friendliest wards we went to on our whole trip! Afterward, we were invited to stay and eat lunch with a bunch of the members, celebrating someone's birthday. It made me wonder if I would be so inviting and friendly to a visitor to our ward.<br />
The rest of the afternoon we spent traveling to Italy.<br />
We added another country to our list: Slovenia!<br />
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I'm not sure I ever even realized that Slovenia was a country! So pretty.<br />
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Before long, we crossed over into Trieste, Italy.<br />
Coming down from the mountains, this was our first view of Italy.<br />
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Trieste really wasn't one of our destinations, but we wanted to get a bit of a feel for it, so we decided to go see Miramare Castle. Miramare Castle is another Habsburg castle, this one built by Franz Joseph's brother, Ferdinand Maximilian, and finished in 1860.<br />
The location is really striking-- on a cliff overlooking the ocean.<br />
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We drove along the beach toward the castle, but had to park a ways away-- the roads were super crowded with Sunday beach-goers.<br />
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We just walked around the grounds for a little while. No tour.<br />
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On Friday, we intended to get up early to drive out to Schonbrunn Palace and beat the crowds, but, as usual, it took us a while to get out of the hotel, buy food for the road, and actually decide what to do. </div>
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So by the time we reached Schonbrunn, it was already very, very crowded. We decided to forego the 2 hour wait to get into the Palace and grounds, and instead hit the road. I was disappointed because Schonbrunn was one of those very memorable places I went to in Vienna as a kid. But after having seen the Hofburg Palace the day before, I realized it probably wasn't worth the wait in the heat. </div>
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Anyway, the Schonbrunn Palace was the summer palace of the Habsburg royalty. It was finished in the 1750's, although royal mansions and residences had been there since 1548. Franz Joseph I (Sisi's husband) was born and died here.</div>
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Entrance to the Palace grounds.<br />
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Front of the Palace. When we were there, there were many more people walking around in front. It's built in the Neoclassical style, although the inside is Baroque.<br />
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The back gardens were pretty cool in my recollection. There was a hedge maze that I was looking forward to. Next time!<br />
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This room and the next were two that I particularly remembered-- the Bergl room is this one.<br />
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And this is the grand gallery.</div>
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Anyway, we spent a little time in the gift shop and looked through some books with pictures of all the interior rooms, so the boys sort of felt like they got the tour anyway. :-)</div>
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We got back on the A1 autobahn and drove west through the Danube river valley toward our next destination, the Mauthausen concentration camp. Along the way, we passed the Melk Abbey.</div>
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This is another place I would have liked to stop and tour. It's a Benedictine abbey overlooking the Danube River.</div>
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But instead, we passed it by-- this is the only view we got of it.</div>
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Mauthausen was about 2 hours away from Schonbrunn. This was another place Ben was really skeptical about going. He thought it would be disturbing and a real downer for the boys. But I felt like it was really important for the boys to have concrete images and memories to attach to the history they learn in school. Mauthausen is one of the few concentration camps that was not destroyed, so all the buildings are original. The Mauthausen complex of camps were among the largest in Nazi-controlled europe. In 1945, there were 85,000 inmates. It was a labor camp, with prisoners working in the nearby quarry, munitions factories, and mines. It was termed a "grade III" camp, meaning it was the most punishing. It was an "extermination through labor" camp, and mainly housed the "intelligencia"-- the more educated people in higher social classes. It's thought that upwards of 320,000 people died here. </div>
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This is the view of the complex from the parking lot.<br />
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Concrete walls around the camp.<br />
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Mosey waiting outside of the visitor center for us to get the audio guides.<br />
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View of the city of Mauthausen from the camp.</div>
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The "wailing wall."<br />
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This is where the prisoners had roll call each day, and was the location of much torture and violence.<br />
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Walking back down the hill, we could see the quarry down below.<br />
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On the grounds there were a number of memorial statues. I thought this one was particularly striking.<br />
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The tour was really emotional and sobering to me. I hope it's something the boys will never forget.<br />
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We ended up staying the night in Linz, not far from Mauthausen.<br />
Linz ended up being one of my favorite cities on our whole trip!<br />
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Sitting on both sides of the Danube River, Linz is the 3rd largest city in Austria, and has the dubious distinction of being Hitler's childhood home. :-( It is the home of Johannes Kepler University, and definitely has the feel of being a college town. There were lots and lots of young college-age kids around.<br />
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We stayed on the south shore of the Danube, in the Nike Linz Arcotel, right next door to the Brucknerhaus-- Linz's concert hall. <br />
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That's the concert hall, in purple, on the right. We were right on the river!<br />
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We checked into the hotel in the afternoon, and first tried to go swimming in the public pool next door, but arrived just as it closed. Instead we went out the back of our hotel, on the banks of the river, and serendipitously found ourselves right next to a small outdoor amphitheater where we listened to a band concert for a while. As the sun went down, we walked along the river, admiring the cruise boats and generally people-watching. Here in Linz I saw many people wearing traditional Austrian clothing-- lederhosen and dirndls (especially lederhosen)-- seemingly just as regular clothing! It was charming.<br />
We crossed the Linzer Nibelungenbrucke bridge and got pizza and kebaps to go before walking back across the bridge and to the main square. By this time it was dark out, and it was then that Linz became even more magical. On the north side of the river, along the bridge, was the Ars Electronica Center, also known as the "Museum of the Future." At night, the entire building is lit up in colors that slowly morph through all the colors of the rainbow. It is beautiful. And right across the river is the Lentos Art Museum, that mirrors the lights from the Electronica Center. It's so pretty!<br />
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We walked down into the main square-- Hauptplatz-- which is dominated by a huge Trinity column in the center. There were lots of people out and about, walking, eating in the outdoor cafes. We shared some gelato before heading back to our hotel. <br />
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This is a time lapse picture that shows pretty well how many people were there that night.<br />
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The next morning we drove briefly through the historical center of town-- pretty much where we had been walking the day before, and then hit the road towards Halstatt.<br />
As we drove, we quickly got out of the Danube River valley, and started up into the mountains.<br />
The drive was beautiful! But the parking was not so easy. We drove back and forth a bit before snagging the very last parking spot in a lot a short walk from the entrance to the Old Town. We wanted to see the Bone House of St. Michael's. St. Michael's Chapel is really, really old-- 1100's, and perched up on the side of the mountain. Next to it is the charnel house (Bone House) with over 600 painted skulls. This was just up the boys' alley, espeically Joseph. The trail up was too steep, so I stayed down below in the town while Ben took the boys.<br />
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After making it back up to our parking lot (the roads were narrow and STEEP-- and with the cobblestones, I was very glad Ben was there-- it would have been impossible by myself), we kept driving about 20-30 minutes up into the mountains to Obertraun. Our destination was the Dachstein Salzkammergut, and from there, the Mammut Caves (Mammoth caves). Once there, we bought tickets and then got into a big cable car that went just about straight up the side of the mountain. <br />
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The ride up was very nerve wracking. I had to force myself to look outside. But the view was spectacular!<br />
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We landed at a visitor center area, from which Ben took the boys on a tour of the caves, and I stayed behind ot wait. <br />
Mammut Cave is one of the longest cave systems in the world. Not all of it has been explored yet. To get there, Ben had to hike with the boys about 20 minutes up the mountain (which is why I couldn't go).<br />
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Once back down off the cable car, we headed back down the mountain, and north through Austria.<br />
In the evening we reached Salzburg. I had originally scheduled a whole day here, but because of schedule constraints, I had to cut it down to one evening. :-( Not enough time to do it justice.<br />
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Things to remember:<br />
Skeleton marionette street performer<br />
Violinist in front of the Mozart statue in Mozart Square<br />
Bratwurst from a food stand in Old Market Square<br />
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Kapitelplatz with a view of the fort above<br />
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St. Peter's monastery<br />
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Salzburg Cathedral<br />
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Mozart's house!<br />
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One of the many small narrow streets that make up old Salzburg.</div>
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After driving out of Old Town, we wound our way through some of the more modern parts of Salzburg, and then it was back on the road, and back over the border to Germany! We found our hotel, the Avalon Hotel Bad Reichenhallwhich ended up being one of the stranger ones we stayed at. We ended up parking in an underground garage accessible only via a car elevator!<br />
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It was a long day, but full of so much great stuff.Gabriellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05162476315884555546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20326540.post-61862411013541960662016-07-23T10:39:00.000-05:002016-08-14T14:40:49.505-05:00Europe trip day 12: Vienna<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
On Wednesday, Ben had to work from the hotel, so the boys and I headed out to Vienna city center. The first place we went to was the Museum of Military History. This is apparently the oldest museum in Vienna, housed inside the old Arsenal building. The museum documents the history of the Habsburg Monarchy and the military history of Austria from the late 16th century until 1945.</div>
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Walking up to the entrance, you pass this collection of cannon:<br />
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(Those cobblestones, by the way, are ubiquitous in Europe, and absolutely awful to wheel on with the wheelchair.)<br />
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After getting tickets, the boys headed straight out to see the tanks. Joseph took pictures of his favorites.<br />
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While the boys were outside, I toured the inside. <br />
The inside of the building is so cool.<br />
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The "Hall of Generals."<br />
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Hall I – From the Thirty Years' War to Prince Eugene (16th century–1700)<br />
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In the exhibit about WWI, Franz Ferdinand's car is on display!<br />
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Then, it was into the historic city center! We found a place to park in an underground structure, and came up right next to the opera house which is on the Ring Road surrounding old Vienna. </div>
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We walked in, and following my guide book map, our first stop was Oberlaa bakery, where we shared a few treats, including Macarons, which I had never had before!<br />
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Then, it was on to St. Michael's church, which was a little tricky to find. I was expecting a stand-alone building, but many of the buildings in Vienna are like this-- all built up one against the other.<br />
St. Michael's church is of the Romanesque style and is one of the oldest in Vienna. It was started in about 1220, and went through various changes until the 1790's, and has stayed the same since then.<br />
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One really cool thing about this church is the organ. It's the largest baroque style organ in Vienna, and was played by Haydn when he was 17. Mozart's Requiem was also played here for the first time at his funeral in 1791.<br />
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But the main reason we came here, was for the famous crypt, Michaelergruft, located underneath the church.<br />
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This is the entrance to the crypt.<br />
The crypt had particular climatic conditions that allowed over 4.000 corpses to be buried here. Nice, huh? The boys went on a tour of the crypt without me, since it was not at all wheelchair accessible. I took these pictures off of Google images.<br />
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See how close the ceiling is to the floor? That's because the real floor is several feet below. Thousands of bodies were interred here, one on top of the other, until the "floor" was raised to the point it is here. You can see the pile of bones off to the side.<br />
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The boys thought it was awesome, of course. :-)<br />
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Meanwhile, I wandered around the city a bit, wheeling down one of the most expensive shopping streets in Europe.<br />
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When I collected the boys from their crypt tour, we headed deeper into the city toward St. Stephen's Cathedral.<br />
It was crowded and HOT!<br />
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But soon we saw it-- one of the places I remember most from my trip to Vienna as a 12-year-old with my orchestra.<br />
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(this is obviously not my picture, but there was no way to get a picture with the entire building in it with the angle and lenses I had to work with)<br />
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Not too far from St. Stephens is Mozart's house! We didn't go inside, but I did get some pictures of the boys outside.<br />
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Next, we walked back past St. Stephens, and over to St. Peter's Cathedral.<br />
St. Peter's is a very small cathedral, especially compared with some, but it is gorgeous, and a perfect example of the Baroque style.<br />
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The incredibly detailed and ornate decoration inside was really overwhelming.<br />
The domed ceiling of this church was also spectacular.<br />
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And then it was time for lunch!!<br />
We got food at a street vendor (Würstelstand). Mosey got bratwurst, and Brigham and Joseph got paninis.<br />
This pigeon got crumbs. :-)<br />
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Our next destination was the Hoffburg Palace!<br />
It is huge!<br />
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This is the front, facing Ring Street (not my picture).<br />
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There are a couple of museums that now occupy much of the interior. We got tickets to the Sisi museum.<br />
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Elisabeth of Austria (Sisi) was a Bavarian duchess before she married the Hapsburg Emperor Franz Joseph I when she was just 16 years old, in 1854. She was a tragic figure-- unhappy most of her life. Her overbearing mother-in-law took over raising her daughters, and her only son killed himself and his mistress. She was beautiful, but became obsessive about it, never allowing herself to be photographed or painted after the age of 32. She spent many hours each day getting her hair done, and exercising to keep her figure. The museum did a good job documenting her sad life.<br />
The museum experience started out with several large rooms exhibiting the royal porcelain and silver (and gold!) collection. How much wealth there was simply in their dishes!<br />
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The tour then took us through several of the royal apartments and other rooms.<br />
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This was Sisi's dressing and exercise room. Look at the rings under the door and the exercise bars!<br />
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Franz Joseph's office.<br />
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I loved the murals in this room!<br />
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One of my favorite rooms had replicas of Sisi's gowns. I would have gone ga-ga over these as a little girl.<br />
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I loved this museum, but I think the boys were done a little sooner than I was. :-) I found them waiting for me in the courtyard.<br />
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Everyone was tired at this point, so after walking around the palace (and seeing this lovely sculpture), we headed back to the car.<br />
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Look at the detail on this guy's face!!<br />
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We walked through the lovely Volksgarten.<br />
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Either the history museum or the natural history museum (they look the same and are right across from each other)<br />
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Parliament building<br />
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Rathaus (City Hall)</div>
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And the Burgtheater. The entire Ringstrasse is full of one historic sight after another.<br />
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Back at the hotel, the boys were happy to eat dinner and relax the rest of the evening.<br />
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Meanwhile, Ben was done with his work, and anxious to see Vienna before we left in the morning. So, back in the car we went! I tried to repeat the route I took the boys, but it was evening and many things had closed. But we saw enough for him to get the gist of Vienna.<br />
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A nice lady took our picture in front of the Plague Column.<br />
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We ate dinner at a delicious restaurant. This is the Wienerschnitzel that Ben got. <br />
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And me with our new favorite drink-- Apfelsaft. No, not beer, although it looks like it. :-) It's a really refreshing carbonated apple juice, basically.<br />
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We walked through the city, enjoying the beautiful buildings by night.<br />
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And then, back home!Gabriellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05162476315884555546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20326540.post-82795597073667134562016-07-23T10:22:00.000-05:002016-08-13T22:17:41.089-05:00Europe trip day 10-11: Dresden-Prague<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
In Dresden, the hotel we stayed in had no air conditioner-- and it was starting to get hot! The first week of our trip, the weather was cool, sometimes even cold. But summer was returning to Europe, and it wasn't an entirely comfortable night. But we were up pretty early in the morning and after giving poor Mosey a total hack-job of a haircut with really crummy drug-store haircutting scissors out in the hotel parking lot, we ready to go see the city. </div>
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Dresden is probably most known for it destruction during the firebombing in the last weeks of WWII. Huge swaths of the city were completely destroyed when 1,250 British and American bombers dropped 2431 tons of high explosive bombs, and 1476 tons of incendiaries. Up to 25,000 people, mostly women and children, were killed. </div>
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After the war, it became an industrial center for East Germany, and much of the city was rebuilt, albeit in the ugly, blocky, industrial "socialist modern" style.</div>
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Walking into the city center, one of the first buildings we saw was the Dresden Frauenkirche. Built in the 18th century, it was completely destroyed in the firebombings. The remaining ruins were left for 50 years as a war memorial, but in 1994 after the reunification of Germany, reconstruction began. </div>
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The church was rebuilt as closely as possible using original material and plans. Each stone from the rubble was documented, and its approximate original position could be determined based on where it was in the rubble pile. Architects used computer programs to manipulate the stones 3 dimensionally to figure out how the original stones fit together. In the end, almost 4,000 original stones were used in the reconstruction. The result is really beautiful-- the church is mostly white, but the original fire-scarred stones are clearly visible.</div>
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Our first destination in Dresden was the Historic Green Vault, but we had some time to kill before our ticket time, so we walked over to see the Zwinger, a Rococo style palace that was part of the original fortress and city wall complex. It, too, was destroyed, so what we saw was a reconstruction, but impressive nonetheless.</div>
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The Green Vault (or Grunes Gewolbe) is a museum containing the largest collection of treasures in Europe. It was founded in 1723, making it one of the oldest museums in the world. It has over 3,000 masterpieces of jewelry and the goldsmith's art, as well as precious objects made of amber and ivory.<br />
It was crowded and really hard to take pictures, so I have borrowed some from Google images here:<br />
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I loved the place, and could have spent another couple hours there at least. But the menfolk were ready to go, and there were other things we wanted to see in Dresden. On the way out, I stopped at a small bookstore/gift shop and bought a tiny wooden carved creche for my mom, and a larger Joseph, Mary, and Jesus for us.</div>
Mosey was interested in the buildings around the city center, and took a couple of pictures:<br />
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Then it was off to the Bundeswehr Military History Museum! It's the military museum of the German Armed Forces, the Bundeswehr, and one of the major military history museums in Germany.<br />
This ended up being one of Joseph's favorite places.<br />
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I thought this was really cool-- it's fragments of shrapnel, as they would appear in a freeze-frame of an exploding shell.<br />
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Going up to the very top, there was a walkway out to the end of the "arrowhead." There was an amazing view of Dresden, but it had one of those metal-mesh floors, and I admit to being almost too scared to walk to the end.<br />
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And here's Brigham, finding a comfortable place to read in the museum while he waited for the rest of us to finish up.<br />
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After the Military History Museum, we next headed to the Volkswagen factory. I had reserved tickets for an English tour, but we came JUST too late, and the people at the desk wouldn't let us join the group. :-( Instead we joined the last tour of the day, which was in German. I didn't get most of it, but it was pretty interesting inside anyway. Apparently the plant wasn't operating-- vacation days I think? I'd like to come back sometime when it is humming along.<br />
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Next on the agenda was dinner. We went back toward the city center to the Altmarkt Square just south of Neumarkt. We ate at a little outdoor cafe in the square across the street from the Altmarkt Galerie. <br />
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Afterward we went into the Galerie for gelato, and I met the grumpiest restroom attendant in Germany-- he refused to let me into the handicapped restroom because it had just past the hour when it closed-- and this in spite of the fact that I had been ringing the bell for the attendant for a good 5 minutes. Nice. In general, I like the European model of public restrooms. They are usually not free-- you put a couple of Euros into a turnstyle in order to get into the restroom. But often the handicapped restrooms (which are always separate from the regular male/femail restrooms) are closed and you have to call for an attendant to unlock the door. That's fine, as long as you can find an attendant to call!<br />
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And that was our day in Dresden! One more night at the non-air-conditioned hotel, and then off to Vienna via Prague the next day.<br />
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Tuesday morning we got on the road to head out of Germany. I had wanted to stop and see the Saxon Switzerland National Park, but it was 45 minutes away, and I got voted down. :-( Here's what we might have seen there:<br />
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Ah well, next time.<br />
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The drive into the Czech Republic was cool. It's a lot different than I had envisioned. I had imagined kind of a flat, industrial, depressing communist-era landscape, but instead there are big hills/small mountains there between Germany and the Czech Republic. <br />
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Still, you can definitely feel that you are heading deeper into former Communist/Soviet territory. We'd be driving on the freeway enjoying the beautiful scenery, and then see these appalling concrete monolithic apartment buildings, or whatever, rising up in the middle of a picturesque little village.<br />
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We finally got to Prague in the early afternoon. Prague is a big city!! It's the capital of the Czech Republic, and has a metropolitan area population of about 2 million people. It's doing alright-- it has the lowest unemployment rate in the whole EU. It's built on the Vltava River, and one of the must-do items in Prague is to cross the Charles bridge. It's really old, being completed in the 1400's, and replacing an older bridge that had been there since the 1100's. But, it was really, really crowded and we didn't want to try to find a place to park, so we had to just admire it from the car.<br />
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Instead, we decided to drive up to the Prague Castle. It's perched up on the top of a hill overlooking the river and the rest of the city. Getting up there was one of the most harrowing experiences of the entire trip.<br />
I was driving, attempting to follow street signs and the car's GPS. Intersections in Europe can be really confusing because there are trams/trains that go everywhere, often sharing the road with the cars. It's not always easy to tell where the cars are supposed to go and where the trams go. Prague was especially confusing because there were almost no lane markings on the road! So I was vaguely following the car in front of me when I made a left turn to go up the hill to the Prague Castle. Like I said, the trams often/usually share the road with cars. But going up the hill, I suddenly found myself in a tram-only lane, with a curbed median and trees between me and the street I was supposed to be on. It was very narrow with no way to turn around. It seemed the only way to get out, was to keep going up the hill until it opened up again at a cross street. So I drove as quickly as I could, praying I could get out before a tram came our way. But sure enough, up ahead I could see a tram coming down the hill! This was a very narrow lane with NO way for both of us to fit. It was like playing chicken-- I raced up the hill trying to get to the cross street before the tram came down. And I made it, just in time. I felt like such a jerk. I often felt like it would have been useful to have a sign in our car window: "I'm sorry, I'm just a stupid American driver! Forgive me!" But, we did manage to get out of the tram lane, and found a parking place along a cross street road. <br />
It was CROWDED and HOT. But we made our way to the castle complex. Here's what the castle's website had to say about it:<br />
Prague Castle was most likely founded in around 880 by Prince Bořivoj of the Premyslid Dynasty (Přemyslovci). According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Prague Castle is the largest coherent castle complex in the world, with an area of almost 70,000 m². A UNESCO World Heritage site, it consists of a large-scale composition of palaces and ecclesiastical buildings of various architectural styles, from the remains of Romanesque-style buildings from the 10th century through Gothic modifications of the 14th century.<br />
And it was really cool!<br />
Going inside the front gates, there was an outer courtyard, and then through a tunnel in the wall, another courtyard, and then through another tunnel in another wall, you're inside the main castle complex, with the amazing St. Vitus Cathedral right in front of you. Again, it was crowded, and we had to make a decision about how we'd spend our time. So we decided against the Cathedral tour, and instead wandered around the castle complex for a while before heading back out.<br />
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There were these guards in front of the outer gates as well as in front of both courtyard entrances. They stood in front of these little guard houses, and were perfectly still, not making eye contact or acknowledging the existence of anyone in front of them.<br />
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St. Vitus Cathedral was huge and ornate.<br />
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Back outside of the castle complex, we went to the walls overlooking the city. It was a great view.<br />
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On the way back out, it was so hot, we stopped and bought way overpriced sodas. It was cool to see the Czech coke bottles.<br />
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Then back in the car for another hour or so of driving to Vienna.<br />
It turns out that Vienna is a BIG city! We drove to our hotel, on a pretty suburban street west of the historic city center, and attempted to find a place to park. The hotel advertised free parking, but it turns out there were only about 5 parking spots in an underground lot. Sure, it's free, if you're one of the lucky few to get a spot. So instead we drove up and down the street a few times before we finally found one empty spot a few blocks up the road. But, that's the way it goes. <br />
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We ate dinner in the little cafe attached to the hotel, and then crashed for the night.<br />
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<br />Gabriellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05162476315884555546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20326540.post-39368172651612457362016-07-23T10:20:00.003-05:002016-08-13T22:14:24.565-05:00Europe trip day 9: WittenbergSunday morning we packed up, checked out of our hotel, and found the Berlin church building-- a nondescript, yet recognizably LDS building. <br />
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After church we headed out of town, south toward Wittenberg, home of Martin Luther.<br />
Wittenberg was a great place to visit. Lutherhaus was originally part of the University of Wittenberg, and was Luther's home for most of his adult life. He wrote his 95 Theses here. It contains many original objects from Luther's life, including his pulpit from the Stadtkirche, his monk's habit, many paintings and numerous bibles, pamphlets, and manuscripts.<br />
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Living/dining room in Lutherhaus<br />
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The Ten Commandments painting</div>
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A copy of Luther's 95 Theses</div>
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Ben standing next to actual robes that Luther wore. He was a small guy!</div>
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After touring Lutherhaus, we walked through the historic city center of Wittenberg, toward the Stadtkirche (on upper right of the picture below), where Martin Luther actually preached. It was the location of the first mass preached in German rather than Latin.</div>
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We weren't supposed to take any pictures inside the Stadtkirche, but I snuck in this picture of the organ pipes (not original to Luther's time, but still beautiful), in honor of my dad. One of his favorite hymns is "A Mighty Fortress" by Martin Luther. Maybe Luther sang that hymn right here!</div>
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Here's a picture of the interior, thanks to Google Images.</div>
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Then we were on our way to see Castle Church, the place where Luther nailed his 95 Theses.<br />
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Unfortunately the church is closed due to renovations. But here is Ben pretending to knock on the famous doors.</div>
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Joseph and I waited near Castle Church while Ben and the other boys went back to get our car. Therefore he was the lucky one to be the subject of my camera for a while.<br />
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And then we were off again, towards Dresden! I would have loved to take a quick trip over to Leipzig, location of the Monday Demonstrations that led to the reunification of East and West Germany, but it was already getting late in the afternoon.<br />
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We stayed that night, and the next, in the Wyndham Garden Dresden.<br />
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It looks a little nicer in pictures than it was in real life. There was no air conditioning, for one thing! We'd had such nice cool weather for the first week of our trip, but summer was back, for sure, and we ended up sleeping with the windows all open.Gabriellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05162476315884555546noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20326540.post-2128254442600570892016-07-23T10:17:00.001-05:002016-08-13T22:10:43.181-05:00Day 7-8: Berlin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
On Friday we got up, packed up our stuff, and headed back toward Germany. We drove on the A1 autobahn out of the Netherlands and across the border into northern Germany. We thought we'd drive through Hanover, but ended up just skirting the northern edge of the city. It was a pretty long drive, and northern Germany is not really so engaging, but in the afternoon we started driving through more wooded countryside until we reached the outskirts of Berlin. </div>
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It was so interesting to drive through west Berlin and into east Berlin! There are lots of cold-war era remnants to be seen, such as guard booths.</div>
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We checked into a hotel right on the western edge of Tiergarten (a huge Central Park-type park in the middle of Berlin).</div>
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Novotel Berlin Am Tiergarten-- A nice hotel, and finally one with a soft mattress! It was heaven on my back.</div>
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After checking in, we walked a mile or so to the Victory Column in the center of Tiergarten. To get to the column itself, you actually cross the road via an underground tunnel. The tunnel echoed with the music of a young man playing a violin just in front of the stairs leading up to the column.</div>
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Victory Column was built in the 1870's as a tribute to German military victories over Denmark and Prussia. It is enormous-- 220 feet high, and gorgeous, with intricate mosaics and friezes along all four sides of the base.</div>
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It survived the destruction of WWII, although there are numerous bullet scars still visible, and many parts of the relief sculpture had been blasted off.</div>
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The statue of Victoria at the top of the column stands just atop an observation deck. Ben and Brigham and Moses climbed 287 steps up to the top for a birds-eye view of Berlin.</div>
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Here are a few of the frieze panels along the base. You can see how a few heads and other elements of the sculpture are missing-- blown off by the bombings and shootings in Berlin at the end of WWII.<br />
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Ben took me part of the way up to the columned pedestal where I waited while he and the boys climbed to the top. The glass mosaics really were amazing.<br />
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We walked back toward the hotel, to a small restaurant just inside the Tiergarten. The food was great! Then back to the hotel for the night.<br />
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The next morning we got up early and walked across the street from the hotel to a train station. From there we took a train a short way to the<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="color: #2c2c2c;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Hackescher Markt S-Bahn station where we joined a guide for a half-day Berlin walking tour. The guide was a funny red-headed guy from Ireland, of all places, but he knew so much and was very entertaining. Here's the overview of the tour we took (not our exact tour-- that one didn't have an overview like this on their website, but we visited almost all the same sites):</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Your guide will begin with an overview of how Berlin was founded, and will continue explaining the long, complex and fascinating history of Germany’s capital city throughout your tour. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Stroll down the Unter den Linden boulevard, linking the Stadtschloss royal palace to Pariser Platz and Brandenburg Gate. As Berlin grew and expanded to the west, Unter den Linden became the grandest and best-known street in the city by the 19th century.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Visit Museum Island, the Neue Wache memorial and the Berlin State Library, where Albert Einstein once worked, and walk under the triumphal arc of Brandenburg Gate, the monumental entry to Unter den Linden. Nearby you’ll see the Reichstag parliament building, Pariser Platz, Hitler’s bunker and the poignant Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Holocaust Memorial. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Follow the 'death strip' to Checkpoint Charlie, and stand in the square of Bebelplatz, the site of the infamous 1933 Nazi book burnings. Walk along the remains of the Berlin Wall, which once divided East and West Berlin, and learn of the momentous events leading to its collapse in 1989. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Pause outside the Topography of Terror museum, located on the site of the former Gestapo and SS headquarters. Your guide will explain how the museum’s intentioned location reflects Berlin’s efforts at confronting and grappling with its past. Look down into the excavated cellars, where political prisoners were tortured and executed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">On a lighter note, get a taste of modern Berlin at Potsdamer Platz, with its urban architectural spread, and see how the area of Friedrichstrasse is being reinvented as Berlin's luxury shopping street. Your tour ends at the beautiful square of Gendarmenmarkt, and you'll be provided a city map with information regarding public transport and the best of Berlin's museums and nightlife.</span></span><br />
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Here is Mosey at the Neue Wache Memorial, or Mother with her Dead Son. It's officially called the "Central Memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany for the Victims of War and Tyranny."<br />
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Brigham in front of one of the Humboldt University buildings. Humboldt is the oldest university in Berlin, having survived the war. Famous students include Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Werner Eisenberg, Karl Marx, Hegel, Friedrich Engels, and Otto von Bismarck.<br />
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The University surrounded Bebelplatz, a square where the book burning memorial is. It's an empty underground room with shelf space for 20,000 books.<br />
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Seeing remnants of the Berlin Wall was especially poignant.<br />
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The Holocaust Memorial was also amazing. It is made of 2,711 concrete blocks on an almost 5 acre square just down the street from the Brandenburg gate. <br />
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We stopped midway through at a little cafe for lunch. <br />
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And here's Mosey, standing with one foot in East Berlin, the other in West Berlin. The site of the old Berlin wall is marked throughout the entire city.<br />
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Some other memorable sites:<br />
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Berlin Cathedral<br />
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Checkpoint Charlie<br />
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This parking lot of a generic communist-era apartment building is directly above the place where Hitler's bunker was-- the site of his suicide.<br />
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This is the Topography of Terror museum-- the site of the SS and Gestapo headquarters, where files for thousands upon thousands of regular East German citizens were kept during the cold war. <br />
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We also walked past the Air Ministry building, which was the headquarters for the Luftwaffe during WWII. It is the only Nazi-era building still in use today, and now houses the German Finance Ministry.<br />
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An enormous 1953 mural, showing the joy of living in soviet-controlled East Germany.<br />
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The tour ended at the Brandenburg Gate.<br />
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Just inside Brandenburg Gate is the Pariser Platz. This great big square has the U.S. embassy on one side, the French embassy on the other side, as well as the Adlon Hotel, where Michael Jackson dangled his baby. These buildings were all rebuilt after WWII, and unfortunately they are all pretty ugly buildings. :-)<br />
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That's where our tour ended. We stayed in the square for a while, deciding what our next move would be. After a few minutes, we walked out of the Brandenburg Gate, and realized we no longer had Mosey with us! After looking around for several minutes and not finding him, we sent Brigham and Joseph back to the hotel to see if he was there. Ben went back to the Holocaust memorial, since Mosey had said he wanted to go back there. I stayed in front of the gates, my eyes peeled. I wasn't terribly worried-- Mosey is pretty responsible, but I admit to being a little nervous as I watched a middle eastern protest group gathered in front of the Brandenburg Gate. Scenarios of kidnapping and ransom demands by terrorist groups passed through my mind. But finally we were reunited. Turns out that Mosey had not even left the Brandenburg Gate area. But there were so many people, we just didn't see him. I was very, very glad to have him back! We ended up walking to a mall nearby for Ben to buy some more clothing, and to find some food to eat. <br />
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We stopped a couple of times to see WWII monuments, especially those involving tanks. Brigham was not feeling well this morning, but roused himself to see the tanks. Mosey, and especially Joseph, were very excited to see the tanks, recognizing immediately what kinds they were and rattling off various statistics about each one. Thank you World of Tanks and TankiOnline! :-)</div>
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Our ultimate destination for the morning was the Battle of the Bulge Museum in Clervaux, Luxembourg.<br />
This ended up being a very cool place. It looks pretty small from the outside, but the grounds have several apparently important tanks on display, and the inside of the museum was really well done with lots of original tanks, weapons, uniforms, equipment, and other artifacts from the time as well as detailed exhibits illustrating what the living conditions in the camps would have been like, or on the front lines, etc. The museum was multi-level, with no elevators (of course), so Ben ended up carrying me up and down several flights of stairs. It was worth it though-- informative and educational.<br />
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On the way back we stopped at a roadside diner for a paper cone of thick cut Belgian frites. Yummy!<br />
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We then drove up through Belgium, into the Netherlands, and all the way up into Amsterdam.<br />
The countryside grew more and more flat, and we saw a lot of this:<br />
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And, of course, these. :-)<br />
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We stayed in a nice hotel near the airport, the Amsterdam Airport Hyatt Place. <br />
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We ate in the hotel restaurant, ordering a variety of traditional foods from Holland, including bitterballen (delicious battered and fried meatballs), and pickled herring (we're not fans).<br />
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Bitterballen. Yummy. (not my photo)<br />
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Pickled herring. Not yummy. (also not my photo)<br />
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The next day was the first day that Ben had to work. So he stayed in the hotel and I took the car into Amsterdam.<br />
Let me tell you, Amsterdam is NOT A FUN PLACE TO DRIVE. We originally wanted to find a place to do laundry, but we got into the city, finally, and discovered that finding a parking place anywhere near the laundry facility was going to be impossible. The roads are tiny and narrow and there are a zillion cars and bicycles. So we gave up on the laundry and found a parking garage to park in. <br />
Our goal was to get to the Rijksmuseum (Dutch Art Museum), which we did with a minimum of wrong turns.<br />
I loved the museum. I could have stayed there for hours and hours. I loved seeing Vermeer's "Milkmaid," a print of which my mom has had in her kitchen for years and years.<br />
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Rembrandt's "The Nightwatch" was really impressive. I didn't know it was so big.<br />
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The boys and I mostly split up inside the museum, so everyone could see what they wanted to see, and we met up at a designated time afterward. We only saw a small fraction of the museum, I'm sure. I'd love to go back sometime.<br />
Afterward, we walked around for a while, and stopped at a cafe for Dutch pancakes. These were delicious! They are the size of a dinner plate, thicker than crepes, but not as fluffy as American pancakes. You can get them with all sorts of sweet or savory toppings. This was probably my favorite thing to eat so far on our trip.<br />
I guess I didn't take a picture (why not???), but they look like this:<br />
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There were more things I would have loved to do in Amsterdam, but it was CROWDED, and Ben wasn't with us which made navigating cobblestone streets not so fun. Next time I want to take a canal cruise, see the Anne Frank House and the Van Gogh museum.<br />
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Amsterdam is so pretty, though. Tons of flowers everywhere, and lots of bicycles! This is the best picture I got in Amsterdam:<br />
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Getting back to our car ended up being a bit of an adventure. My phone didn't work in Amsterdam (the German sim card only works in Germany! We had thought it would work for the whole EU. Not so.) So we had no map. And I had forgotten to really mentally note where our parking garage was! But it turned out OK. Joseph and I have pretty good mental maps, and between the two of us we managed to find our car. We drove back through traffic and ended up back in the hotel in the late afternoon to relax. <br />
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I wanted to take Ben back into Amsterdam, since that was the only day we would be there. Plus, we still had to do laundry! So he and I headed out while the boys relaxed at the hotel.<br />
Boy, this ended up being one of the most stressful (memorable, but stressful) times of the entire trip. Amsterdam city center in the evening is impossibly crowded. The roads are SO narrow, with tiny cars (seriously-- Smart Cars are THE car to own in Europe) parked on both sides of every street. I felt like I was white-knuckling it the entire time, trying to avoid hitting cars, running into bicyclist, and running over pedestrians. <br />
We "drove" through the city a little bit (I put it in quotes because it was more like crawling), at one time ending up on a bridge completely packed with pedestrians. I had no idea how I was going to get out. I think many of the streets become pedestrian-only in the evening, and this was one of them! We managed to get over the bridge but then got stuck when the road was blocked with a metal pole/post coming out of the ground. We had no idea how to get through, with no way to go back. Finally Ben got out of the car to try to help me navigate. We figured out how to make the metal pole retract back into the road, and managed, slowly, to make our way out of the city center.<br />
It was seriously one of the most stressful and harrowing driving experiences I have ever had. Since then I have come to realize that driving in the city center is highly discouraged. Bicyclists get the right of way no matter what, next pedestrians, and last of all, cars. I could never live here! I can totally see why family size is so small in Europe-- it's impossible to get around in a full-size car. The only reasonable way to drive and park on a daily basis is with a Smart car or another such teeny tiny vehicle.<br />
But we did finally manage to make it out of the city center. I drove around for a while just to get my wits back before parking way outside the Canal ring and walking into the city center, carrying our laundry. Our first task was to find a laundromat. I also don't understand how Dutch people do laundry! There are no laundromats! Everyone must have them in their apartment buildings, I guess. Anyway, our best bet was a laundromat in the red light district. Seriously. So we went there, and were happy to see only one other person inside doing laundry. That other person ended up being quite a character. A red-headed guy from Bristol, he was obviously drunk, but also a super-friendly guy. We ended up having a pretty extended conversation. Apparently he had just done mushrooms for the first time in 10 years (so he says), and sitting there carrying on a conversation with him in a laundromat in the red light district of Amsterdam was so surreal as to be almost ridiculous! He was harmless, though, and anxious for someone to talk to. So I sent Ben out to explore the city a little bit on foot while I tended to the laundry. I learned all about his life-- he'd spent the last few years wandering around Europe, but was ready to "settle down" here in Amsterdam. He was very interested in us being from Texas and we bantered a little bit about gun control. He was really concerned about the fact that he was wearing no socks. Apparently all his socks were filthy, and all he really wanted in life right then was some clean socks. <br />
Anyway, it was an interesting evening, to say the least. We did manage to finish our laundry, after which Ben and I walked the streets of the red light district for a while before heading back to the car. It was a lot different than I thought it would be. Less seedy, but more depressing. There were tons of tourists around, the vast majority of which were not interested in partaking of the exotic wares to be found behind the glass doors lining some of the streets. We shared a dessert waffle (looked so good, but ended up being only so-so), and then searched unsuccessfully for an accessible rest room, before heading back out of the city.<br />
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We got home late, with clean clothes, and our nerves relatively intact. :-)<br />
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We woke up in Bonn, and decided to forego the Beethoven museum (Beethoven was born in Bonn) in favor of finding a grocery store for food, and then going straight up to Cologne. We found an Aldis and another clothing store just next door. Ben and Mosey bought some clothes, and Joseph and I bought sweaters/sweatshirts at Aldis, along with some groceries for the day. It was COLD in Germany! The week before, apparently, had been hot hot hot, but a cold front had come in, and it was downright chilly. We also bought some delicious bread at Aldis which was consumed very quickly.<br />
Then it was off to Cologne! <br />
The big attraction is the incredible Cologne Cathedral, the biggest in Germany, and the tallest two-spired cathedral in the world. It was started in 1248, but the gothic/neo-gothic building wasn't completed until the 19th century. During World War II, nearly the entire city of Cologne was destroyed, except for the Cathedral. Was it goodwill on the Allies part that prevented them from bombing it? Or was it the fact that the cathedral made such a good landmark for bombers flying overhead?<br />
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The interior was just as spectacular as the outside. We kind of piggy backed on a tour that was already going on, and learned quite a bit.</div>
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One of the biggest attractions is the shrine of the three kings, which supposedly houses relics from the three wisemen. It is covered in gold, silver, and over 1,000 jewels and beads.<br />
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The floors were finished in porcelain mosaic-- just stunning.<br />
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Ben took the boys on a non-handicapped accessible tour up to the top of one of the spires (apparently awesome, but scary), and I had a chance to wander around the inside a bit longer.<br />
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After the cathedral, we walked along the Rhine river, stopping for lunch at a cafe, and then toured the Lindt Chocolate factory! That was so much fun.<br />
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Inside the factory/museum, we learned all about the history and manufacture of chocolate. Surprisingly fascinating! I never knew white chocolate was actually made of cocoa beans-- just the cocoa butter part of them.</div>
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At the end, they gave everyone a sample of chocolate, and we bought a bag of Lindt mini chocolate bars for the road.<br />
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Then, it was back in the car, and off to Aachen, about an hour away.<br />
In Aachen, we went to the Aachen Cathedral, built by Charlemagne, starting in 796 AD. It is the oldest cathedral in northern Europe, and the location for the coronation of over 30 German kings and queens. Charlemagne's throne is here, as well as his final resting place, although it is not known exactly where that is.<br />
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Inside, the gilt ceiling mosaics were completely amazing.<br />
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Charlemagne's sarcophagus, where his bones were re-interred in around 1215.</div>
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This is the Ambon of Henry II, commonly known as Henry's Ambon or Henry's Pulpit. It was built between 1002 and 1014 and is among the most significant artworks of the Ottonian period (thank you Wikipedia).<br />
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Afterward, we walked around Aachen for a while and found a cell phone store to buy a German sim card for my phone so I could actually use it here in Europe! I went inside the store with Ben and impressed myself with how well I could understand the German conversation.<br />
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Then, we were on the road to Belgium! The drive to Belgium was so, so beautiful! I kept telling the boys to look out the windows and soak it all in. <br />
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We stayed the night in the Tropical Hotel (really!) in the countryside, finishing the evening with a family walk.<br />
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This funny hotel had a huge green-house type addition complete with swimming pool and tropical plants. Hence the name, I guess!</div>
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We woke up in St. Goarshousen to find a beautiful little town on the eastern shore of the Rhine River, Overlooking the village on the mountainside just behind us was Burg Katze.</div>
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And directly across the Rhine from us was Rheinfels castle-- we could see this one from right outside our hotel-- our first real look at a German castle.<br />
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After breakfast, our first order of business was to figure out what to do with my wheelchair. The best plan seemed to be to drive up to Koblenz, a larger city, find a bike shop and try to get an inner tube that would fit my wheel. We had planned a Rhine River cruise and a tour of a couple of castles, but we had to make do with the beautiful drive up the Rhine River, craning our necks to see the castles lining both sides of the river gorge.<br />
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The first we came across was Burg Maus, also on the eastern side of the river. (None of the following pictures are my own-- I was driving) Notice the name-- Mouse Castle, named in reference to Burg Katze-- Cats castle! :-)</div>
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Next was Marksburg Castle, also on the east side of the river.</div>
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Next we drove by Sterrenberg and Liebenstein castles-- mostly ruins, also on the east side of the river.</div>
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Then on the west side again was Stolzenfels Castle:</div>
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So we made the drive, a pretty drive along the east bank of the Rhine river, with picturesque castles and ruins on the hillsides, to Koblenz. We found a bike shop, but they would have to special-order the innertube. But, as luck would have it, there happened to be a wheelchair store in Koblenz! So we went over there and they fitted my wheel with a new innertube and tires. </div>
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Finally we were on our way again, driving about an hour or so to Burg Eltz, on the Mosel river southwest of Koblenz. Burg Eltz is one of the best castles to tour in Germany. It is a medieval castle built in the 1100's, that is still owned and lived in and maintained by the Burg family today. The tour was well-done and made me realize how happy I am to have been born in the modern age. :-)</div>
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From up near the parking lot where we hopped on a shuttle bus:</div>
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Closer:</div>
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Some more exterior shots:</div>
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We walked across the bridge to the castle and bought tickets for our tour. While we were waiting, guess what happened? My wheelchair tire popped again. Ugggghhhh!!!! At least I had brought my crutches, so we stashed my wheelchair away and I did the rest of the tour on crutches and/or on Ben's back. Not easy, but worth it. Thank goodness Ben had the foresight to buy more than one inner tube! We planned to fix it later that evening. Meanwhile, the tour was really cool.</div>
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This is inside the castle courtyard.</div>
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And this one is the view from the castle itself, looking down on the walls surrounding it.</div>
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Finally it was our turn for the tour. We couldn't take pictures inside, so I'm borrowing a few from Google images. </div>
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After the tour we ate some German sausages and then headed back up the hill. While Ben and I waited for the shuttle bus, the boys hiked up to the top. Mosey found this cute little critter as he was walking.</div>
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It was an awesome afternoon. We finished up the last few Pimsleur German lessons on the way there and back, so Joseph and I were now officially legal on the trip!<br />
We drove on to Bonn, Germany where we stayed the night at the Mercure Hotel Bonn Hardtberg.<br />
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Too early in the morning, we got ourselves up and back into the car. We made a quick driving tour around the beautiful Strasbourg Cathedral, admiring the clean streets and Sunday-morning breakfasters in the many corner cafes. Then it was back across the Rhine River into Germany to make it to church in Freiburg.</div>
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The Strasbourg Cathedral. Not my photo-- it was so hard to get a good photo of the cathedral because of the many buildings the are built up almost to the base of the building.</div>
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Freiburg is a beautiful city, right at the base of the Black Forest mountains. There is a university and another beautiful cathedral. We went to church there in a small LDS chapel near the university. Everyone was so friendly and impressed with the boys' German skills. </div>
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After church we went on a short walk around the cathedral before getting in the car and heading up into the mountains.</div>
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The beautiful city of Freiburg nestled up against the mountains. (not my photo)<br />
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Freiburg Cathedral. </div>
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Apparently the Freiburg Cathedral is famous for its gargoyles. Some of them are rather... questionable.<br />
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Just a few minutes after getting in the car and starting up the mountains, we heard a loud POP from the back of the car. I'd heard that sound before. It was not a welcome sound. My wheelchair wheel inner tube had popped! We thought about going back into Freiburg to try and find a bike shop where we could buy a new innertube, but the shops we tried calling were closed, so we decided to forge ahead, and deal with it later.<br />
The drive up through the Black Forest was stunning. We felt like we were in one of the Grimm fairytale forests!<br />
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We stopped in Furtwangen to tour the Deutsches Uhrenmuseum (German Clock Museum). The Black Forest is cuckoo clock country, and there were a lot of them in the museum! Actually it was a really interesting museum featuring the history of clocks from the earliest models to the most modern.<br />
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The Black Forest was beautiful. Driving through picturesque little villages like this really made us feel like we were in a different world.<br />
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We drove to Triberg to see the largest waterfall in Germany. Germany apparently doesn't have terribly big waterfalls, because it wasn't that impressive. :-) But it was cool and green and the boys were happy to get out of the car for a while. Ben carried me on his shoulders a good way down the mountain before coming back and driving with me down into the town to pick up the boys.<br />
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Also not my photo, but a better view of the falls</div>
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And it was good timing because right about when we picked up the boys, it started raining HARD.<br />
Darkness fell as we drove northwest, down out of the mountains, and it really did feel like the <i>Black </i>forest. We crossed back over into France, going through a road block of sorts, manned by French protestors protesting... something. Some agricultural something or other. And then it was a straight shot through the eastern edge of France, back into Germany, and then to Sainkt Goarshausen where we got into our hotel, Pohl's Rheinhotel Adler, way too late (midnight, I think).<br />
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<br />Gabriellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05162476315884555546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20326540.post-89514819279779726852016-07-21T17:43:00.001-05:002016-08-13T21:57:53.624-05:00Europe Trip Day 1, Germany: Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Vaihingen an der Enz, to Strasbourg, France<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
July 24th finally came-- the day we left on our trip to Europe! We flew from Austin to Atlanta, and from there, overnight to Frankfurt.</div>
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Joseph was my seat partner. :-)<br />
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I made sleep bands for everyone in our family-- an invention that slips over your head and around the back of the seat to hold your head immobile. I actually slept for most of the flight from Atlanta to Frankfurt.<br />
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Brigham at the Atlanta airport during our layover. This is the first of many, many pictures I took of Brigham reading books in various places. <br />
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We finally landed in Frankfurt, made it through customs, got our baggage, and then went to the car rental desk to pick up the car I had rented. Only, I had made the reservation for July 24th, not July 24th, I guess forgetting the overnight part of the flight. I was very nervous since July is the height of the tourist season in Europe, and I feared there would be no cars available. But there were, and before too long we were on our way in a Mercedes (!) S-class station wagon. Nice!<br />
Our first destination was a little town where Ben's ancestors had once lived-- Wiesbaden, Germany. We wanted to buy lunch, only to realize we hadn't exchanged any money yet, little shops don't take American credit cards, and the notion of public restrooms hasn't yet taken off in Germany. Ah, well. We drove around a bit, then ate our very first German meal at... McDonalds. :-) McDonalds took our credit card and had a restroom open to the public, so that was that!<br />
Soon we were on the road to Stuttgart where we stopped to visit the Mercedes museum. <br />
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Then back on the road with a stop at Vaihingen an der Enz, a charming little city on the Enz river where we went to a clothing store so that Ben and Mosey could buy clothes. Ben only brought one change of clothes, wanting to buy clothes in Germany-- to look less like tourists, perhaps? It turns out that there really isn't much difference between German clothes and American clothes. The only tee-shirts they had were printed with English phrases!<br />
But one thing was very German: A whole rack of Lederhosen! I was tempted to buy some, but the price was a bit steep.<br />
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(This is not my picture-- I didn't take any pictures there at all except of the Lederhosen!-- but this is what the town looked like-- so clean and pretty and green!)<br />
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Finally we were on our way again, with a quick stop at a grocery store to buy food for Sunday. We drove all the way across the border to Strasbourg, France, where we slept at the Strasbourg Hilton and a good night's sleep was welcomed by all.<br />
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