JFK, NYC
2023年7月14日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
Yep, we're done.
We had a lovely flight cancelation from NYC to Syracuse, NY. We boarded the plane at 10:40 pm, but we couldn't take off. They finally canceled the flight at 1am. We had to take theもっと詳しく
London, England
2023年7月11日, イングランド ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
You know, it's London...
Yay were going home!
Our Culinary Czech List
2023年7月8日, チェコ共和国 ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
The food in Prague was mostly familiar to us. This isn't surprising as we've basically encircled our last mainland country. We found a few Bavarian similarities in sauerkraut and pork knuckle. We alsoもっと詳しく
Prague, Czechia
2023年7月5日, チェコ共和国 ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
Prague is the capital of the Czech Republic (also called Czechia). It's also capital of the historic region of Bohemia. It's located on the Vltava river. This area has changed hands over the years.もっと詳しく
Dresden Germany
2023年7月2日, ドイツ ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
Dresden is the capital city of the Saxony state of Germany. It's known as "Florence on the Elbe" for its beautiful Elbe River that snakes through the city. It's lined with beautiful architecture bothもっと詳しく
Bastei & Neurathen Castle Bridge Germany
2023年7月1日, ドイツ ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Bastei is a rock formation in Saxon Switzerland National Park. The National Park is half in Eastern Germany and half in the Czech Republic. The rock formation is a series of eroded rocks high in theもっと詳しく
Polish Cuisine
2023年6月29日, ポーランド ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Polish cuisine is delicious. It has its greatest hits, of stuffed cabbage, kielbasa, and perogies. The perogies leave a lot to the imagination of the chef though. Restaurants had cheese filled onesもっと詳しく
Wroclaw's Gnomes
2023年6月29日, ポーランド ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
The Gnomes or Dwarfs of Wroclaw are a relatively new addition. The first Gnome was placed in 2001 as it was the mascot of the "Orange Alternative" an anti communist movement. The first Gnome wasもっと詳しく
Wroclaw, Poland
2023年6月29日, ポーランド ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
First off, let's discuss pronunciation again. As they are in German (Deutsche), Ws in Polish sound like Vs. But that's only the beginning of trying to pronounce this city's name. The best way I canもっと詳しく
Krakow, Poland
2023年6月25日, ポーランド ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Krakow is one of the oldest cities in Poland and the capital until 1596. That would have also been during the time of the Kingdom of Poland and their allied Lithuania ruled the north of Europeもっと詳しく
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When getting relocated to concentration camps, many Jews thought they were going to new Apartments. They were told to bring only their valuables. Many Jews thought, "How can we go to Apartments without a place to sit. As a result their chairs were not allowed to come so they were piled up in this Plaza. That is the inspiration for this monument.
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Now that is a very cool castle. As a fortification... It is impressive looking but would've been hard to defend
Auschwitz & Birkenau Concentration Camps
2023年6月23日, ポーランド ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Today we had a very solemn experience, but we could not leave Europe without paying our respects.
Auschwitz was the largest Nazi Concentration Camp created by the Nazis. In conjunction to it laterもっと詳しく
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This was referred to as the Women's dorm, but it was specifically for older women who could no longer work. Being assigned here meant you were waiting for availability in the gas chambers. Given that they were older women, many had trouble getting to the top sleeping area. Many crammed into the bottom area. While the floor has a walkway and a general floor for tourists. Back then it was a fully dirt or mud floor and likely freezing in the winter.
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A nearby plaque read: In the courtyard between blocks 10 and 11, in the years 1941-1943, SS men shot several thousand people at the Death Wall. Mainly Polish political prisoners, leaders and members of resistance organisations died here. Poles brought from outside the camp were also executed here, including hostages arrested in retaliation for actions by the Polish resistance against the German occupation authorities. Here, men, women, and even children lost their lives. There are also known tases of prisoners of other nationalities, Jews and Soviet prisoners of war, being shot here. In the courtyard, SS men performed the punishments of flogging and "the past", which consisted of hanging prisoners by their arms that were twisted behind their back. In 1944, on orders of camp authorities, the Death Wall was dismantled and executions by shooting were then carried out by SS men most often in the crematoria at KL Auschwitz II-Birkenau. After the war, the Museum partially reconstructed the Death Wall.
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A plaque from elsewhere in Auschwitz read: Immediately after getting off the train, the Jews were ordered to line up into two columns, one of women and children and the other of men. Each column was subjected to 'selections' by SS doctors and medical orderlies, there and then on the ramp: the strong and the healthy were separated from the old, the sick, and children. People selected as fit for work were sent to the camp. The others, usually 70 to 75 per cent of a transport, were sent to be murdered in the gas chambers.
Slovakian Grub
2023年6月20日, スロバキア ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Slovakian cuisine is delicious but also heavy. Cabbage is a main vegetable along with potatoes, and salads. Dumplings filled with cheese, Veal, potatoe are common. As is gnocchi with sheep's cheeseもっと詳しく
Kosice, Slovakia
2023年6月19日, スロバキア ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
Kosice, which is pronounced... and we have two sources confirming this... Co-shitz, was first founded in 1230 by German settlers from Saxony together with Slav settlers. It's a beautiful, but smallもっと詳しく
Cuisine of Hungary
2023年6月18日, ハンガリー ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Hungarian cuisine could be described as heavy, hearty, soupy, but of all else they love their peppers. Peppers, which are called Paprika (same as the spice), are the base of most dishes. We hadもっと詳しく
Buda, Budapest Hungary
2023年6月17日, ハンガリー ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
This post should accompany our Pest post. To recap a little, Budapest was originally two separate cities. Buda sits on the western bank of the Danube that splits the two halves. We didn't get over toもっと詳しく
Pest, Budapest, Hungary
2023年6月15日, ハンガリー ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
For those that don't know, Budapest was originally two separate cities. Buda sits on the western bank of the Danube and Pest sits on the east bank. It was our observation that Pest felt like the moreもっと詳しく
Austrian Gastronomy
2023年6月11日, オーストリア ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
Austrian cuisine shares many similarities and heritage with german cuisine. There is ample sausage and beer. There are however differences and menu items specific to austria. Wienersnitzel beingもっと詳しく
Vienna, Austria
2023年6月11日, オーストリア ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Vienna (or Wien as locals call it) was amazing to see as the seat of the Austro-Hungarian. Known, for its museums, contributions to classical music, and its architecture. While we've been to manyもっと詳しく
Innsbruck, Austria
2023年6月7日, オーストリア ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Innsbruck was an interesting milestone for us. Almost 11 months prior we were about 2 hours south of here hiking in the Dolomite Mountains in Northern Italy. At the time we discussed taking a day tripもっと詳しく
Austria Countryside
2023年6月7日, オーストリア ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Driving through the hills.
Today we rented a car and were able to drive through much of western Austria. Here are some of our pictures from that day.
Fun fact about Austria. The name seems to haveもっと詳しく
Prehistoric Alpine Pile Dwellings, AT
2023年6月6日, オーストリア ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
I'm going to make this write up a little meta. Some of you know, but others may not. Emily and David put in about 5 years of research into this trip. Many weekends of downtime choosing the nextもっと詳しく
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A plaque by Mondsee lake stated: The UNESCO World Heritage Site See is located at the eastern end of Lake Mondsee in the area of the Seebus river. The pile dwelling was discovered by Matthäus Much in 1872 and represents the most comprehensive source for research into the Austrian pile dwelling culture to date.
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Again, from the plaque by Mondsee lake: While in the second half of the nineteenth century, researchers pictured the pile dwellings as large platforms built in the lake, at the beginning of the 20th century a heated argument developed with partisans of a new theory. It said the pile dwellings were ground-level houses built on the dry shores. This view slowly established itself as the only possible explanation. Nowadays, we know that there were all sorts of pile dwellings: villages on dry land, in the water, and hybrid types.
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A plaque Lake Mondsee read: By examining wooden remains, and comparing and amending them with other samples, we are able to compile a calendar that is exact to the year, in order to classify the piles by age. Other construction elements or implements can be dated like this, too.
Lakes Region, Austria
2023年6月5日, オーストリア ⋅ 🌧 16 °C
We were able to visit the towns of Mondsee, Zall em See, and Halstatt. The lakes region is one of the most beautiful parts of Austria and only about an hour ride from Salzburg, some you can get to byもっと詳しく
Salzburg, Austria
2023年6月4日, オーストリア ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Salzburg is known as many things. This 150,000 population city got famous as its home to white gold or salt which was very valuable at the time. Also known as Rome of the north for many of itsもっと詳しく
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So jealous. Nothing like a pipe organ . Enjoyed my time playing and taking lessons at St George cathedral in Kingston Ontario
Did you tell everyone to get out of the photo so you could take it ?? Or did you take this at 5am in the morning !! LOL [EE]
Our Southern German Cuisine
2023年6月2日, ドイツ ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Our German Cuisine experience lived up to all the hype. Much beer and sausage was consumed. While we expected to have choices of Knot and Brat wurst, we were often surprised to find "regional wurst"もっと詳しく
旅行者So what is an example of a “regional wurst” and how much do they differ from each other?
旅行者It's hard to say, they taste really similar to bratwurst, and the menu offered no real description. They were good though.
I hope you two ask for decaffeinated, or have that for lunch so you can have time to "walk it off". [EE]
Munich, Germany
2023年5月31日, ドイツ ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Beer, beer, and bier!
Munich is the capital of Bavaria. Famous for its beer culture, but alas, we were here in May/June rather than Sept/Oct. In fact, one of our favorite European beers finds itsもっと詳しく
Heidleberg, Germany
2023年5月27日, ドイツ ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
The romantic town of Heidelberg was our first stop into Germany. It's odd to think with all the traveling we've done that we are only now stepping into Bavaria.
Primarily, Heidelberg is a Universityもっと詳しく
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旅行者I wish I had been more consistent with commenting but really enjoyed all of your posts. Thank you for documenting your trip this way so I could follow along!
旅行者No problem, let me know if you ever need trip ideas. We know the US and Europe pretty well at this point.
Flight issues are so unbelievably common these days. I love “USA did us dirty “ 😆 [Nancy]