N and K’s European Vacation

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17-dniowa przygoda według Kate & Neal Czytaj więcej

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N and K’s European Vacation
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- 1 lip 2023, 09:32
- ☁️ 70 °F
- Wysokość: 577 ft
- Austria Wien Gemeindebezirk Innere Stadt Vienna Burggarten 48.203925, 16.3645748°12’14” N 16°21’52” E
Dzień 8
Vienna, last day (part 2)
1 lipca 2023, Austria ⋅ ☁️ 70 °F
Kate and I enjoyed our last day exploring the sights of Vienna, knowing we have barely scratched the surface. Such an amazing city, rich with history! Now, a day on the train to Germany!
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- 1 lip 2023, 11:27
- ☁️ 73 °F
- Wysokość: 610 ft
- Austria Wien Gemeindebezirk Innere Stadt Laimgrube 48.202842, 16.35983848°12’10” N 16°21’35” E
Dzień 8
Vienna, last day
1 lipca 2023, Austria ⋅ ☁️ 73 °F
Once again we crammed in as much as we could. So much to see here! We went to the Leopold Museum and the MAK (Museum of Applied Arts), plus walked and gawked. Tomorrow we head to Germany on the train.

1. There is art EVERYWHERE here, including tunnels.
2. Lots of flower stands. The Viennese love beauty, it seems.
3. and 4. From the MAK
5.-8. Details from the exhibits at MAK. We also saw Klimt’s Tree of Life there.
9. Schubert monument in the Stadtpark
10. Really good meals today, even if not traditional Viennese food. This was a falafel bowl from a street kiosk. The purple sauce is beetroot tahini. Yum! Terrific Indian food for dinner. Czytaj więcej
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Podróżnik Outstanding! I don’t think I would leave. Ha!
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N and K’s European Vacation
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- 2 lip 2023, 20:29
- ⛅ 70 °F
- Wysokość: 495 ft
- Niemcy Rheinland-Pfalz Gau-Odernheim 49.783517, 8.1907249°47’1” N 8°11’27” E
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Dzień 9
Travel Day!
2 lipca 2023, Niemcy ⋅ ⛅ 70 °F
Today was mostly spent in the train, taking in the Austrian and German countryside, before arriving in Worms to meet our friend Steve. We are looking forward to exploring the German countryside in the coming days, including some of the Camino! Czytaj więcej
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Podróżnik Kate in her natural habitat. 😏
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- 3 lip 2023, 07:52
- ☁️ 59 °F
- Wysokość: 446 ft
- Niemcy Rheinland-Pfalz Framersheim 49.76923, 8.18853849°46’9” N 8°11’19” E
Dzień 10
Germany: Rhine and Moselle Valleys
3 lipca 2023, Niemcy ⋅ ☁️ 59 °F
(Kate)

Today our friend Steve was a wonderful tour guide; he took us to see various castles and other sights in the Moselle and Rhine Valleys. So beautiful! We enjoyed muesli for breakfast, typical German tourist food for lunch, ice cream, and ended the day sitting in Steve and Franziska’s courtyard eating cheese, drinking nice wines, and savoring lovely cool weather while we can. Owl and bat sightings before bed. An excellent day!

1. I got up early to walk a few miles along one of the routes of the Camino de Santiago (known as Jacobsweg here in Germany). It was really nice to be walking in the countryside again.
2. and 3. Burg Eltz - a beautifully maintained castle in the Moselle Valley. We took a guided tour but couldn’t take pics inside. You can see in 3. how the castle is built into the rocks on the mountainside. It’s quite a massive structure, and it’s been owned by the same family since it was built! Construction first started in 1472.
4. A very nice trail through a forest back to the parking lot of the castle.
5., 6., 7., 8. There was a castle of some sort almost literally at every bend in the road/river in the Rhine Valley. Some are ruins, and others have been turned into tourist attractions, hotels, or youth hostels. These are just a few of them. That’s the Rhine River in 7.
9. and 10. Views from the very picturesque town of Bacharach. Czytaj więcej
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Podróżnik Wow those castles 👀!!
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- 4 lip 2023, 11:27
- ☀️ 72 °F
- Wysokość: 328 ft
- Niemcy Rheinland-Pfalz Mainz Maaraue 49.997074, 8.27465349°59’49” N 8°16’29” E
Dzień 11
Germany: Mainz and Bechtolstein
4 lipca 2023, Niemcy ⋅ ☀️ 72 °F
(Kate)

We both think this will end up being one of our favorite days of the trip. Steve drove us to the city of Mainz to visit beautiful churches and have a really delicious Italian lunch. Then we walked from his village of Gau-Odernheim to Bechtolstein, the next village, for wine tasting at a winery and a lovely dinner in the courtyard of friends of Steve and Franziska’s. It was a beautiful day with nature, friends, and off-the-beaten-path sightseeing - we loved it.

1. and 2. The German Baroque Augustiner Kirche in Mainz
3. In Mainz - built in 1450!
4. and 5. The elaborate Romanesque main cathedral in Mainz
6. and 7. St. Stephen’s Church with windows by Chagall. Fascinating and sad to see the photos of this church as it looked after WWII. Lovely restoration!
8. and 9. From the idyllic walk to Becholstein
10. I rode Franziska’s bicycle back to their house after dinner. So fun to ride through the vineyards in the late light (after 10pm) by myself. Czytaj więcej
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Podróżnik Love the stain glass 🥰
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- 4 lip 2023, 12:04
- ☀️ 73 °F
- Wysokość: 335 ft
- Niemcy Rheinland-Pfalz Mainz Kastel Mainz Dom- und Diözesanmuseum 49.998775, 8.27485549°59’56” N 8°16’29” E
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Dzień 11
Ja!
4 lipca 2023, Niemcy ⋅ ☀️ 73 °F
Neal:
Tuesday has been the highlight of the trip, so far! Wandering through Mainz, amazing Italian food, lots of German wine, and making new friends!

I will just add a few more pics for your viewing pleasure. BTW, that is a Camino shell in picture #4 (Jacobsweg)! Czytaj więcej
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Podróżnik 🤎
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- 5 lip 2023, 20:18
- ⛅ 61 °F
- Wysokość: Poziom morza
- Holandia Provincie Noord-Holland Gemeente Amsterdam De Wallen Amsterdam Centraal Railway Station 52.377442, 4.89878752°22’39” N 4°53’56” E
Dzień 12
That blows
5 lipca 2023, Holandia ⋅ ⛅ 61 °F
Interesting travel day as we left Germany today. With Amsterdam getting hit with their strongest ever recorded storm, transit was shut down quickly and we were left to scramble. We decided to get at as far as we could on the train, which was Utrecht, Netherlands. Rather than rush to the next mode of transportation, we chose food and beer instead!

After enjoying a wonderful Asian fusion dinner and a couple of beers, we grabbed an Uber for the last 50 miles and are resting comfortably in our hotel!

Looking forward to enjoying a full day of “touristing” tomorrow! Czytaj więcej
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N and K’s European Vacation
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- 5 lip 2023, 20:22
- ☀️ 61 °F
- Wysokość: 26 ft
- Holandia Provincie Noord-Holland Gemeente Amsterdam De Wallen Sexmuseum Amsterdam 52.375992, 4.89718352°22’34” N 4°53’50” E
Dzień 12
Amsterdam
5 lipca 2023, Holandia ⋅ ☀️ 61 °F
(Kate)

We had a great time exploring in Amsterdam today. Van Gogh Museum, the Rijksmuseum, and lots of people watching. So many bicycles!! Yet another place where we could’ve spent many days seeing all there is to see; we’ll have to come back. Another excellent Italian dinner and a drink with one of Neal’s drum corps buddies wrapped up the day nicely.

1. Along one of the canals
2. The Royal Palace
3. Ad/artwork in random street
4. Magna Plaza, which is a shopping mall now!
5. Another canal
6. From a really moving temporary display at the Van Gogh Museum that shows paintings from his last couple of months. This one is called Twilight.
7., 8., and 9 From the Rijksmuseum. One of those museums you really need a few days to see. We did our best.
10. One last canal pic Czytaj więcej
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Podróżnik That library 🥰
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N and K’s European Vacation
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- 7 lip 2023, 10:53
- ☀️ 73 °F
- Wysokość: Poziom morza
- Holandia Provincie Noord-Holland Gemeente Amsterdam De Wallen Amsterdam Centraal Railway Station 52.380623, 4.89701352°22’50” N 4°53’49” E
Dzień 14
Travel Day!
7 lipca 2023, Holandia ⋅ ☀️ 73 °F
Not a lot of pics today. Had a nice breakfast at an omelette bar this morning then hopped the train across Holland and Belgium, then eventually London. Staying with our friends, Dan and Samantha, the next couple of days, and they are planning a whirlwind for us. Stay tuned! Czytaj więcej
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Podróżnik So jealous!
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- 8 lip 2023, 15:51
- ☁️ 75 °F
- Wysokość: 128 ft
- Anglia Greater London Covent Garden Health Audit International Ltd 51.513947, -0.12507251°30’50” N 0°7’30” W
Dzień 15
Mind the Gap! London
8 lipca 2023, Anglia ⋅ ☁️ 75 °F
(Kate)

Dan and Samantha showed us an excellent time today in London. We started with the Portobello Road and Notting Hill markets, then went on to the British Library and saw a display of little things like the Magna Carta, a draft of a Monty Python script, a Mozart quartet manuscript, and lyrics for “Michelle” in Paul’s writing on the back of an envelope. We got rained on, rode in a black cab, and visited more than one pub, which all felt very British! We viewed some of the big sightseeing highlights and will do more of that tomorrow. We ended the day with fantastic fish and chips and some pints in their local pub. Jolly good day!
1. So much history everywhere here! Lots of these little plaques referencing residents like Orwell, Kipling, etc.
2, 3., 4. Some of the many pubs we saw today.
5. St. Pancras station. We arrived in London to this station yesterday but didn’t see the impressive front of the building.
6. St. Martin in the Fields
7. Big Ben, of course. We managed to hear it ring a couple of times.
8. Richard the Lionhearted in front of Parliament
9. Westminster Abbey
10. Signage at the Dodo Micropub, Dan and Samantha’s local Czytaj więcej
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Podróżnik London is my happy place!
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