After leaving the lovely town of Koblenz and the quaint Hotel Brenner, we got back in the rental car, turned on the GPS / Alec Guinness, and headed for Trier.... Travel | | 13 September 2008 Read more... |
Saturday, August 30, 2008 Peace be upon you… I know my writings are becoming less frequent and at wider intervals; perhaps because the pressures of the daily work are tiring... Travel | | 6 September 2008 Read more... |
Ok, so it"s lame to post an apology for not posting. But I just wanted to let you know that I haven"t quit! JieJie and MeiMei started school last week,... Travel | | 3 September 2008 Read more... |
When we dined in Koblenz, somehow WW2 came up in conversation with our young waiter, who was born in Poland but had grown up in Koblenz. His perspective on the... Travel | | 2 August 2008 Read more... |
On Wednesday, June 25, we checked out of the Meininger City Hostel in Cologne / Koln, and set the GPS for Koblenz and the Hotel Brenner, our lodgings for the... Travel | | 12 July 2008 Read more... |
Belgian beer, Belgian chocolate, Belgian waffles...we have to leave while we can still button our pants. I"ll catch you up with the day trips I"ve yet to write about after... Travel | | 5 July 2008 Read more... |
Good morning, those words below, are from an American reader, not from me. sad America, where are you going , in what direction? Faiza ************************************ I just finished reading your... Travel | | 3 July 2008 Read more... |
 Tuesday morning we got up fairly early to hit the road for Cologne in our rented dark blue Kia cee"d DIESEL compact family sedan, yowza! Our friends S & I... Travel | | 30 June 2008 Read more... |
 A while ago I had mused about what a Belgian Springsteen fan would be like. You know that footage of polite audiences watching Jim Morrison on staid 60"s tv shows?... Travel | | 30 June 2008 Read more... |
We"re back from Germany and booked solid til Monday, so here"s a quick version of the Germany trip that I will flesh out later (why write when there"s still traveling... Travel | | 28 June 2008 Read more... |
Friday, June 20, 2008 Peace be upon you… I don"t know why sometimes the disturbing news pile upon me, unsettling my mood. I long very much for Baghdad; I wish... Travel | | 24 June 2008 Read more... |
We"re already a third of the way through our trip! The weather"s been fine and with so much to do, writing has taken a back seat to doing, as it... Travel | | 23 June 2008 Read more... |
After a lovely dinner in Linkeroever (the left bank of the river Schelde) last night, we got home, put the girls to bed at 9, John fell asleep at 10:30,... Travel | | 20 June 2008 Read more... |
Bad night"s sleep and a herky-jerky day...Somewhere around midnight, 3 of us woke up and couldn"t get back to sleep. MeiMei slept through the whole thing, true to form. I"d... Travel | | 19 June 2008 Read more... |
I just heard that the two duffel bags full of medical supplies made it safely to Beijing, hooray! Now a representative from Half the Sky Foundation will pick them up... Travel | | 18 June 2008 Read more... |
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