I’m sitting in the small lobby of our Salzburg inn where I can use the wifi. I’ll have to catch up the blog with the other posts when we return to Paris. We took a 2 1/2-hour train from Vienna to Salzburg today and, after checking into our hotel, walked across the Salzach River on…
I had been dreading going to Auschwitz although it was one of the main reasons we came to Poland. I felt obligated to try to get a sense of what happened there, but I was afraid I might have nightmares for a while. The buildings that remain and the museums they house at Auschwitz and…
This is going back in time a bit, but here are some sightseeing photos from Friday when we had all day to see more of Prague before our 10:26 pm train. Charlie’s favorite travel guide, Samantha Brown, came here to the Imperial Cafe. She talks about a tray of stale doughnuts that people can throw…
I’m pretty sure R.E.M.’s 1991 song is about the Poles…or not. We arrived in Krakow from Prague Saturday morning on an overnight train that started off badly. And it’s unfair of me to point to the Poles’ grumpiness, as the Czechs are none too sparkly themselves. It was a Czech conductor/ticket taker who tried to make…
I have to keep reminding myself as we walk around Prague/Praha (not sure why we call it Prague since they call it Praha) that it’s all real – legitimately old and not the Las Vegas version. At least two of the churches we’ve seen were built more than a century before Columbus set sail. There…
I’m typing this Monday afternoon on the Deutsch Bahn train from Berlin, where we spent four nights, to Prague/Praha, where we’ll spend the next four nights. I may not be able to upload pictures on the train because of little or no Internet connection but will post this tonight from our hotel hopefully. The older…
We enjoyed our short time here in the Black Forest. We arrived in Baden-Baden by train yesterday afternoon from Paris and checked into the Holiday Inn Express. We then walked downtown and to the Christmas Market which we found out is nearly all food booths. We bought some tasty treats including Glühwein (hot wine) for me and Kinderpunch 🙂 (hot grape…
The Jeanne d’Arc statue near our apartment has been adorned with a Rudolph nose (of course) which has fallen to her shoulder. Another set of statues that are part of a fancy fountain at Place de la Concorde has also been fitted with red noses which, thankfully, have stayed on. We had to buy some…
Our Eiffel Tower tour guide on Tuesday was the same one we had in the catacombs which was fine with me because she’s a wealth of knowledge with a dry wit and speaks fairly quickly; none of which is an accurate descriptor for our Versailles tour guide the following morning, but I guess that’s why…
I forgot a few things on the previous post… Saturday we toured a farmer’s market, bakeries, and other local food outlets with Lydie, our tour guide. Did you know there are stores that just sell cheese? I bought a few kinds among the hundreds of varieties available at one of Paris’ many fromageries. The kids ate…
Travels with Charlie and Laurel 