On our bike journey towards Bad Breisig from Konigswinter we got lost. We drove enthusiastically down a long long windy fast RheinStrasse expecting it to bring us back down the hill to the Rhine, only this Rheinstrasse led to a big highway which we could not cross. So what do intrepid travellers do? We followed [...]
We left Haarlem, in the Netherlands on Friday 5th August, by train – a cheat we know but we had underestimated just how tired we would be and still had a few things to sort out on that day. We had a great breakfast with friends at the Ambassador Hotel in the centre of Haarlem [...]
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Well now that we are on the way and have a 51k bike ride under our feet we know we can do this funky thing. Yesterday we rode from Zevenaar in the Netherlands to Xanten in Germany and the total ride was 51.12 or something very close to that. It was just over 51 k’s [...]
These 2 oldies (did I really say that?); we are preparing for a bike ride of some 850 or 900 k’s depending on where you check. Sadly we are not training as much as we should, but we are getting together the bits and pieces that might just make the trip manageable and we are [...]
In short – no we are not We are not in good shape for our ride – but we are working on it. And we will have time to do it, the trip I mean, after all Best Beloved will have retired – (forced to retire, unheard of in New Zealand), so we have nowhere [...]
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Memorial to all Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Holocaust Memorial by architect Peter Eisenman with engineer Buro Happold. This memorial is in Berlin and is dedicated to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. There is a great deal of controversy regarding the existence of the Memorial. We are not putting forward a [...]
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This has been a hard subject to consider and then write about. But I must before the memories and the strength of my emotions and feelings are reduced. We decided to hook up with a tour guide, not being German speakers and also not being fully cognisant of the story of Dachau. We were instructed [...]
Continue reading about A challenging day at Dachau – 18th April 2009
We left by train for Munich on the Monday morning after the birthday garden party. Fortunately M had looked up the trip for us on the internet because we had missed the train we had intended to catch and were very surprised at all the changes that we had to make. That is, we had [...]
A Birthday in Untersiggenthal or was it a visit to Bad Säckingen? We have just been to Switzerland for A’s (M’s partner) birthday, followed by a meandering through Germany. The party was held in their garden, the weather was great and the garden looked absolutely lovely all set up for the day. Lots of tables, [...]
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