The suitcases have made their way up from the basement. Last minutes preparations are being made at the office. A nervous excitement is in the air. This can only mean one thing. An Excellent Adventure is about to start. No matter how many times Barb and I have travelled and have gone through the whole trip planning process it’s those…

How Paris turned into Germany It’s funny how quickly plans change. For example, under normal circumstances, around this time of year we would be talking about our plans for a short getaway which we normally would do for our vacation around now. If you had talked to us just 5-6 weeks ago we would have told you that we were…

I guess that with the posting of my pictures from my recent trip to Germany that this means that things are now officially done. My Germany 2006 pictures can be found here. Baden

Berlin Stopover A few months ago when Frank and I were discussing the agenda for this vacation, we hadn’t discussed stopping in Berlin on our way from Hamburg to Dresden. This subject only came up last week as Frank suggested that since our train to Dresden was going through Berlin that it may be worthwhile to stop for a while…

Flensburg Reunion In my last installment, I was saying that I was on my way to Hamburg where I needed to transfer trains to catch the connecting train to Flensburg in northern Germany where I would be staying the night with Barb’s uncle and aunt Claus and Renate and her cousin Steffen. The big challenge was to change trains in…

Meeting old Friends About a month ago, I had made arrangements with our friend Anette to meet her for lunch today as it would likely be the only time that I would have to see her on this trip to Germany. For those of you who don’t know, it was actually Anette whon Barb and I met first back in…

Touching down in Germany My flight to Frankfurt was non-eventful but I couldn’t help but think that a long 10 hour flight like that would have been made much easier if I had someone to talk to – like Barb. I lucked out and was given an emergency row seat so I ended up having a good 6 feet of…

Defining Online in New Terms I think that this definitely must be a first for the postings that I write to my blog. The idea of me composing this while I am on the plane is nothing new as I usually do a lot of my writing while en route to most of our destinations. No, it is the fact…