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  • Day 1

    Camping 1

    August 4, 2023 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C

    Het plan was om vandaag een eind Duitsland in te rijden om dan morgen het laatste kleine stukje naar Bovec te moeten rijden.

    Het weer in Slovenië is echt vreselijk slecht op het moment met overstromingen in de regio Ljubijana (waar wij pas helemaal aan het einde van de reis naar toe gaan).

    We hebben gebeld met de camping in Bovec en daar is nu helemaal niets aan de hand maar er komt nog fors wat regen aan.

    We hebben nu een prima plekje op een camping in de buurt van Neurenberg en daar blijven we nog een extra nachtje.

    Maar eens even goed nadenken over wat we gaan doen.
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  • Los geht‘s, wieder heim und wieder los

    August 19, 2024 in Germany ⋅ 🌙 16 °C

    Es geht endlich los. Um 23 Uhr machten wir uns auf den Weg zum ersten Etappenziel - Dänemark. Danny hat auf der Autobahn seine Box zerlegt und ist bis zu Björn auf den Beifahrersitz geklettert. Also umdrehen und wieder heim, die stabilere Box aus der Welpenzeit ins Auto packen. Um 1:00 Uhr ging es dann final los. Ohne weitere ungeplante Zwischenstopps.Read more

  • Day 19

    Home sweet home - oder so

    September 3, 2023 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C

    Wir sind nach 16,75 Stunden reiner Fahrzeit wieder zu Hause angekommen. Das Auto ist ausgeräumt, die Kinder sind freiwillig und wortlos ins Bett, Danny liegt in seiner geliebten Hundebox und wir? Wir holen uns eine Mütze Schlaf.Read more

  • December 12 - Last day in Nuremberg

    December 12, 2022 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ -3 °C

    We were in the 8:00 a.m. time slot for breakfast. No cookies or champagne for brekkie today. We detected some decidedly mid-Western American accents at a table across the room.

    We set out about 9:30 a.m. We took a tram ride for about 15 minutes to the Documentation Center and Nazi Party Rally Grounds. Nuremberg tries to present itself as the “City of Human Rights”, but its reputation as Hitler’s favourite place for rallies is hard to shake. The museum began an extensive remodelling project in 2021 so a lot of what used to be accessible is closed off, but there is a very well-done interim exhibit which focuses on the space and content of the Rally Grounds. The exhibit helps to trace the evolution of the National Socialist Movement which simultaneously energized and terrorized the German people. We were all very struck by how propaganda and staging and lighting were used during the rallies to promote Hitler and his ideologies. Leni Riefenstahl’s propaganda classic “Triumph of the Will” was filled at this location. The Nuremberg Trials were held at another location across town. Those trials – the first international war-crimes tribunal -brought about a new concept of international law, which continues today in The Hague, Netherlands.

    We came back to the hotel and, of course, it was time to eat again. Some of the serious shoppers in the group had found a great store (Karstadt) on Saturday (closed yesterday) with a good café on its lower level. The store is like a cross between The Bay, Bed, Bath and Beyond, Michael’s and a giant grocery store. The café was very busy – it appears to be where wives stash their husbands while they shop. We got a couple of seats at the counter and ate in shifts. We discovered that they only serve steak. They have beef from all over the world, but alas, not from Canada. The steaks are cooked on a giant grill right before your eyes. The frantic pace kept up by the staff made my head spin. They act as order takers, bartenders, cooks, table clearers and cashiers. Most of us don’t usually have steak and baked potato and salad for lunch, but hey, we were there and up for the entertainment, so we dove in headfirst like the troopers that we are and polished off very tasty steaks.

    We split up after lunch – Sue off to take photos, Mary Ann and I to check out fabrics, and the others to shop and drink tea. We are Christmas Marketed out.

    Karstadt has a knitting wool and fabric department. There were some nice fabrics, but the prices weren’t very attractive. And the organization of the fabrics made it hard to browse – cottons were lumped in with polyesters and the wools and drapery materials. Mary Ann and I could have whipped that place into shape in a week.

    We went to another fabric store that we had spied near the Spanish restaurant last night. We found the same thing – no separation of fabrics by material content or colour or theme. And the lighting was so dim I couldn’t tell blacks from blues from dark greens. Another place in need of a makeover.

    One last stop – the food section of Karstadt. There is more chocolate there than any nation needs. I had one last €20 note so I spent it. No, not all of that chocolate is going to make it home!

    We had dinner at an Indian restaurant around the corner called LeBar. They played music from Dirty Dancing and had an extensive liquor collection. Not your typical Indian Restaurant. As always, we had good food and lots of laughs.

    We are off to Frankfurt tomorrow morning in preparation for our morning flight the next day. This adventure is coming to an end soon.
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  • Day 47

    Burg Cadolzburg

    November 5, 2022 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C

    Heute haben wir die Burg Cadolzburg im gleichnamigen Ort in Mittelfranken besucht und eine kurzweilige Wanderung durch den angrenzenden Wald unternommen.

    Die Burgbesichtigung war für Emma mit ihren Hummeln im Hintern (gerade mal 11 Monate alt - also Emma, nicht die Hummeln 😉) nicht wirklich spannend und total laaaaaangweilig.

    Der Weg durch den Wald danach hat ihr um Welten besser gefallen. Nur die Sache mit der Geduld muss sie noch lernen, wenn wir uns mal auf eine Bank setzen und nur schauen und die Stille genießen.

    Schon verrückt, auf den eigenen ehemaligen Spuren wieder unterwegs zu sein. Ich habe von 1995 bis 2001 in Cadolzburg gelebt, damals aber die Schönheit des Ortes so nicht wahrgenommen.

    Egal, es ist niemals zu spät, Dinge und/oder Sichtweisen zu ändern. Es ist wichtig, sie ab und an zu hinterfragen und zu prüfen, ob das noch den richtigen Stellenwert für einen hat.

    Es war die richtige Entscheidung, hier am Ort länger zu verweilen.
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  • Day 46

    Das Nomadenleben genießen

    November 4, 2022 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C

    Die letzten Tage waren weniger spektakulär in Bezug auf Sightseeing oder ähnlichem.

    Wir besuchen noch ein paar Freunde und Familie im Großraum Nürnberg, bevor wir dann Deutschland verlassen werden.

    Gestern abend waren wir mit einem unserer Kinder noch lecker brasilianisch Essen. Es war ein kleiner Vorgeschmack auf unseren großen Wunsch und Traum Brasilien zu erleben und zu erfahren Wir können euch die brasilianische Küche nur ans Herz legen.

    Für heute haben wir uns auf einem kostenfreien Womo Platz im Landkreis Fürth niedergelassen und genießen den Blick auf die Burg und Umgebung.
    Gut, dass wir bei Zeiten hier waren, denn der Platz füllt sich schnell.

    Ich frage mich, warum viele andere Städte es verschlafen, einfache Womo Stellplätze zu schaffen.
    Wir stehen hier kostenfrei und haben auch die Möglichkeit der Ver- und Entsorgung. Es gibt auch ein kostenfreies WC. Strom und Wasser ist gegen kleines Geld zu beziehen. Ist so einfach.

    Der Platz selbst liegt sehr zentrumsnah und wir wollen morgen die Chance nutzen, den Ort und die nähere Umgebung zu Fuß erkunden.
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  • Day 1

    Unschöner Zwischenstopp

    August 5, 2024 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C

    Frieda musste pullern, Enno hat Müll weggebracht und fing an mit schreien . Dachte er hat ne Leiche in dem 2 Meter tiefen Müllschacht gefunden... neee besser.. er dachte es wäre cool den Autoschlüssel da rein zu werfen. Also kopfüber mit ner Gardinenstange geangelt. Klasse Idee 😁
    Gerda hat alles verpennt 😁
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  • Day 54

    Airport Singapur to Frankfurt/Main "101"

    March 28, 2024 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C

    Es ist vollbracht, nach 53 Tagen unterwegs auf der anderen Seite der Erde, schließt sich der Kreis.
    Am Hauptbahnhof in Nürnberg wurden wir von Roman mit unserem Auto abgeholt, sehr gute Entscheidung, selbst zu fahren hätten wir nicht mehr geschafft, so fertig wie wir waren.
    Durch zwei Nächte in Singapur mit 5 Stunden sind wir zurück in die MEZ gereist. Gestern um 6h Ortszeit in Singapur sind wir früh in den Tag gestartet.
    Vor unserem Abflug hatten wir noch genügend Zeit uns den "Jewel Airport Changi " im Airport anzuschauen und waren durch die hohe Luftfeuchtigkeit einmal komplett "durchfeuchtet".

    Unsere Ankunft in Frankfurt war dann nach gut 12 Stunden um 17.15h. Das hat dann auch gereicht und war auch nicht so komfortabel in einem kleineren Flugzeug A300 mit Singapur Airlines. Unsere innere Uhr zeigte da schon 1.15h am Karfreitag an.
    Zuhause waren wir nach der Bahnfahrt letztendlich gegen 23.15h. Wir sind auch nicht gleich geschlafen gegangen, sodass der Jetlag so gut wie überstanden scheint.

    Frohe Ostern wünschen wir unseren treuen Followern über die lange Reise, jetzt heißt es erstmal den Frühling und das neue "Rentnerleben" genießen!
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  • December 11 - Exploring Nuremberg

    December 11, 2022 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ -2 °C

    We gathered for breakfast at 8:30 a.m. This hotel asks you to choose one of three breakfast time slots to control the crowd in the breakfast room. It’s a lovely room, but not very big. We were given champagne and our choice of delicate homemade cookies to begin our morning. Such decadence! Our big excitement was watching some hunky paramedics head on foot down into the subway – perhaps one of last night’s soccer revellers wasn’t faring so well this morning. (France beat England 2-1.)

    We have our walking tour at 11:30 a.m. The meeting place is down at one corner of the main Christmas Market. After some false starts (it’s cold today so more layers, hats and scarves were required), we got down to the market and did some last-minute buying. Our tour guide was Tom, a native of Nuremberg. Rather than give us a chronological history of the city, he told us tales and stories, often using humour to soften some rather bleak moments in Nuremberg’s past. Nuremberg was known in the Middle Ages as a centre of innovation and trade. The first globe and the first pocket watch were invented here. Nuremberg is located almost exactly in the centre of Europe which put it on the many trade routes – the smart Nurembergers demanded to be paid taxes on the goods transported through their centre of commerce.

    We started at the “Beautiful Fountain” and heard the sad lost love tale of the wrought iron trainee who put a perfect circle of iron on the fence around the fountain. I dutifully turned the ring three times while making a wish for the Seven Sisters group (hint – my wish involved traveling and safe returns).

    We heard about the underground cellars that were built originally to store beer (a much safer drink than water in the Middle Ages) and how those cellars sheltered people and artwork during the bombing raids of Nuremberg in January of 1945.

    We heard about Albrecht Durer, an artist, who changed the course of art in the late 1400s and early 1500s. Art until then had been dominated by religious themes. Durer began to paint and draw just ordinary life. This was a major shift in the world of art.

    We also heard about the continuing rebuilding efforts in the city. Thousands of artisans have banded together and gathered donations to rebuild the buildings destroyed during the war in the style they were before the bombing. It’s incredible to believe that this effort continues more than 75 years after the war.

    We visited the Imperial Castle (Kaiserburg). In the Middle Ages, the Holy Roman Emperors stayed here when they were in town (with their entourage of about a thousand attendants). The views from the castle wall were fabulous.

    Tom finished off with a spiel about the town executioner and his tribulations finding a wife. Who wanted to be married to the executioner?? All in all, it was a good tour.

    By that time, we were all pretty cold. Angela had spied a good café and had reserved a table for us. It turned out to be a room just for us, which given the loud and crazy name of the trip was a good thing. We had warm drinks, delicious tomato soup and seven desserts. Fabulous.

    Then we split up. Some went to the German National Museum; some went to the Albrecht Durer Museum, and I headed off by myself. I wandered around the children’s market with its merry-go-round, Ferris wheel and kid-friendly arts and crafts booths. Then I watched a street performer play a didgeridoo, an Australian instrument that requires excellent breath control to play. I popped into St. Klara’s Church, just to see the architecture. There were people seated who seemed to be waiting for something to start. Lo and behold, just 10 minutes later, a fabulous choral concert began, presented by an excellent choir in a setting with pristine acoustics. The program was all Advent music, covering the 1500s to the 1900s. There, I finally got music on this tour!

    Back at the hotel, we had pre-dinner drinks and snacks before our dinner reservation at a Spanish restaurant. We had dinner - some things were good; others were okay. The conversation was good. We talked about what we miss the most about home, other than our partners. My answer - big, fat pillows and fleece sheets. Just because we hadn’t had enough to eat, we went to one of the market stalls and got warm churros (long, skinny doughnut things) with sugar and cinnamon with a side dish of dark chocolate.

    We have an 8:00 a.m. breakfast time slot.
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  • Day 17

    The Hofgarten

    September 14, 2022 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 72 °F

    The Ansbach Residenz, the palace of the Hohenstauffens, has an Orangerie and gardens which were built separately from the palace. This was a place for pretty flowers and parties. We ate in the cafe and walked around the gardens. There was a lot of open space, park like areas, trees, flowers. It wasn't as fussy as the Mirabel gardens in Salzburg. A different look and atmosphere, equally nice.Read more

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