My Travels Around The World
March 2013
Day 9: Amsterdam, Part 2 (Wednesday, March 27, 2013)
We had breakfast in the apartment, got an earlier start because we wanted to get to Anne Frank close to when it opened at 9am, [...]
Day 8: Amsterdam, Part 1 (Tuesday, March 26)
We slept in again and took our time with breakfast in the apartment. We had picked up a few things in the grocery store last [...]
Day 7: Cologne to Amsterdam (Monday, March 25,2013)
It was a slow day in Europe today :) We spent a couple of hours at the Cologne Cathedral this morning. The photos (in yesterday's [...]
Day 6: Cologne (Sunday, March 24, 2013)
A normal early morning, we went down for breakfast around 7:30. The scrambled eggs were cooked in bacon grease, a specific taste I haven't had [...]
Day 5: Koblenz, Part 2 (Saturday, March 23, 2013)
We slept in until 8:45am which is really late for us. Dan has been working so much, so hard, for so many months, I was [...]
Day 4: Koblenz
Koblenz, derived from the Latin word for "confluence" - appropriate since it sits on the banks where the Mosel River merges with the Rhine. With [...]
Day 3: Frankfurt (Thursday, March 21, 2013)
I took a train into Frankfurt this morning, a 30-45 minute ride from Mainz, depending on whether or not you're on a high-speed train (I [...]
Day 2: Mainz
Today I just walked around the city about 7 hours, and stopped in a few museums. Oddly, Mainz is like Sacramento in this way: not [...]
Day 1: Brussels to Mainz
Today is just about getting here and adjusting to time change and culture. I managed to navigate the Brussels airport and 3 train stations since [...]
Departure: Test Part 2
I am typing this from my Kindle Fire sitting at the gate in SFO, hence the "test" of this post.Jon picked me up at 5:30am, [...]
Just a test
Tomorrow I leave for Europe for 3 weeks - specifically Germany, Netherlands and Belgium. I'm surprised at the number of people who have expressed genuine [...]
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