Category Archives: Travel
Euro Trip Day 45: Nuremburg, or Nuremburg, or Nürnberg, or Nuernberg. Several spellings, one city.
I’m trying to play catch up on posts here, so bear with me. :-) ****** On Monday morning, July 19th, we got up, went and availed ourselves of our free breakfast at our hotel, and got our stuff packed to head to the train station. At this point in time, we have packing down to [...]
Sunrise and sunset are my two favorite times of day.
(Sorry about the Facebook “Like” buttons appearing at the top and bottom of each post — I haven’t figured out how to just get them to stay on the top of the post yet. I’ll worry about it when I get home.) :-) Changing light at the Cologne Cathedral, originally uploaded by Kari_Marie. Click on [...]
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Tagged Buildings, Churches, Germany, Light
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Euro Trip Days 42, 43, and 44 all rolled into one post
Sorry if I’ve managed to totally bore you all to death with all of the pictures of buildings… but there are more church pictures in this post. Only a couple, though. Promise. :-) On Friday (Day 42) we left Prague and headed to Neusorg, Germany. I had no idea where this was when I booked [...]
Euro Trip Day 41: Bones, churches, and bone churches
Today we got up and tried to get on a train at a relatively early hour to go to the town of Kutna Hora, a UNESCO World Heritage site about an hour from Prague, and home to a few really neat places. To be fair, we did make it on the train at a reasonable [...]
Euro Trip Day 40: Getting to indulge my love of Gothic cathedrals AND geology, all in the same day!
AKA, Why I’m the biggest nerd EVER. :-) On Wednesday we headed up to Prague Castle to check out St. Vitus Cathedral, a HUGE Gothic cathedral. Now, I’ve known since my freshman year of high school in Spanish class, when we learned about Santiago de Compostela in Spain, that I’ve been fascinated by cathedral architecture. [...]
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Tagged Animals, Buildings, Czech Republic, Food, People
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Euro Trip Day 39: I have some catching up to do!
I’m really going to try really really hard to simplify things here, since I really need to get caught up. On Day 39 we slept in… I think travel fatigue is really starting to get to us, because we both wanted to see Prague, but neither of us was enthused about going anywhere. So we [...]
Euro Trip Day 38: No shower feels better than the one you take after stewing in your own sweat on an overnight train
John actually wrote the post title as a Facebook status update. Lovely, I know, but man was he right about that! We got into Prague around 7:30 AM, got our bearings, and hopped a tram to our night’s lodgings, a guest house about a mile from the train station. We knew we wouldn’t be able [...]
Euro Trip Day 37: Auschwitz: A world I can only envision in black and white
**Disclaimer: As the post title should indicate, this is kind of a downer of a post. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Only for a bit, though — then it perks up towards the end.** Sunday July 11th, we got up early and got our bags packed, then took them to the train station and [...]
Euro Trip Day 36: Monks on Segways with flamethrowers
Since I’ve managed to get behind in blog posts, I’ve decided to make a concerted effort to post pictures and give a brief rundown of the day, at least until I’ve caught up. :-) July 10th John wasn’t feeling well, so he relaxed and I wandered around Krakow, seeing more of the historical things to [...]
What’s better than Toccatta and Fugue in D Minor on the accordion? Toccatta and Fugue in D Minor on FOUR accordions!!
Watch these kids on the piano (old piano with the keys fused so that it was a public art piece rather than a piano.) HILARIOUS. These accordion players are a Ukranian group called Harmonia — I bought their CD of classical tunes. LOVE it. :-)