Finally Coffee at The Demel

October 7, 2008

This post is for Frances…finally! Coffee at the 150-year-old Demel Coffee House in Vienna. Coffee and cake: Mohn Torte.   They were both delicious.  The cakes !!! Twice we’ve been back but couldn’t find a place to sit…it is always busy except for the first day we were there. The beautiful gold-leaf ceiling… The kitchen…. We […]

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The Wohnmobile is gone!

September 28, 2008

Sadly, the Wohnmobile has been sold!  But not without a little bit of drama…. Yes! That is the Wohnmobile being towed.  We drove over 8,000 kms without a hitch and 30 minutes away from meeting a prospective ebay buyer the Wohnmobile died on us. Lucky for us we were in Vienna and had just pulled […]

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News from Munich, Surfing, Biking and Oktoberfest

September 19, 2008

We spent last week in Munich.  We wanted to see our friend The Major again before we depart Europe (in 4 weeks).  We also had some interest from some Munich-based Wohnmobile buyers. This time in Munich we stayed at a very  nice campingplatz near the Isar River… We had beautiful 5-kilometer bike rides along the […]

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Thousand-Year-Old Roman Church in Portiers

September 8, 2008

As we traveled from Troyes to La Rochelle in France, we stopped in Portiers for just a few hours to see this very special l’eglise…the Cathedrale St-Pierre… Of particular interest was this stained glass window of the Crucifixion from the 13th Century (1200) is among the oldest in France. Portiers is very old with a […]

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An Akkordeon Lektion

September 7, 2008

Today I have a very very special treat! Back in July when we were in Bad Hamburg, we went to Frankfurt Der Flohmarkt (Flea Market)…       And our friend Herr Schneider purchased this instrument …    for The Doc –>  She was inspired to learn how to play the accordion because her young niece is […]

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Four Furry White Dogs, a Cat, a Parrot, a Satellite Dish and Hills Hoist

September 1, 2008

Doesn’t the title of this post sound like it is going to be a great story?  As Wohnmobile dwellers…we are not typical. We don’t have a Smartcar…. Or a satellite dish… Even though we didn’t have a dish… ….we managed here and there to catch the news on a PC using a USB TV receiver. […]

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Troyes Cathedral

August 30, 2008

After Strasbourg (here’s the map again) we traveled to Troyes (say Twah).  Along the way…we came across this little church…Eglise Saint Remi (circa 1300)…in Ceffonds…the stain glass windows in this church are some of the oldest remaining in France (circa 1500’s). I found a description in an architectural and heritage guide that reads…Eglise Saint Remi […]

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Denglerstrasse, Bad Godesberg

August 28, 2008

This post is for E.H. While this post as been slightly modified per a private request we reserve the right to photograph and publish any view that is in the public eye unless a sign is posted forbidding photographs. No such sign was posted when these photographs were taken. Eine weitere Ansicht von links … […]

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The Rhein Valley

August 27, 2008

We’ve been to so many places since leaving Vienna on the 26th of July…I am starting to lose track.  I thought I should do a map…it’s a Google map…and you can follow the trail of where we’ve been as I backtrack to update the blog.  On the map, start at Wien (highlighted by the big […]

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Cathedral de Notre Dame Strasbourg

August 26, 2008

Cathedral de Notre Dame in Strasbourg…another very old and gobsmacking gothic cathedral…similar but different to the Ulmer Muenster, built around the same time. These gothic churches are often very dark inside and it is difficult to get good photos.  The color and beauty of the stained-glass windows are impossible to capture with our unprofessional digital […]

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