Lembach, France Travel Blogs

Wandering around Lembach
May 3, 2006

... -the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Lembach by US forces and dedicated by US astronaut Russell Schweickart whose grandparents came from Lembach), the butcher shop where Leopold Siess might have worked, and a few other places. We stopped at the post ...

Chateau Fleckenstein and the Maginot Line
May 4, 2006

... defenses which France constructed along its borders with Germany and with Italy in the wake of World War I. (The ones near Lembach were built in about 1930.) Generally The French believed the fortification would provide time for their army to mobilize in ...

Fancy dinner at the Auberge de Cheval Blanc
May 10, 2006

... to the house. I took a nap and Carol and Daniel worked on translating some old documents. Daniel's sister and brother-in-law arrived in their camper-they're on their way from northern France to Greece for vacation. They had dinner and stayed the night.

Armistice Day in France, Museum of Alsatian Jewry
May 8, 2006

      Today was a holiday (Armistice Day) so Daniel didn't have to work. After breakfast (French bread with honey and leftover quiche lorraine), Daniel and Carol went over what they had found and still need to find, I labeled ...

Lazy Day in Lembach--and a Birthday!
May 6, 2006

... looking for a good view of the town. We also saw many of Daniel's tiny properties. He has about eight different properties around Lembach and a few others elsewhere and Denise has a few, too. Most are rented to others for grazing horses or making hay. One ...

Visit to Lembach, Alsace, France
Oct 21, 2005

... prize in Canadian poetry. He autographed a copy for me. We finally took off for France about 11:00 a.m. We had a bit of trouble finding Lembach, Canton Wissembourg, where Judy's great-great-great-grandmother lived in about 1850 with her second ...

Getting to France--not an easy task
Apr 30, 2006

... NO trouble, just not in the fast lanes. I got up to 110 kph (70 mph) with no problem. We were a bit late getting into Lembach (150 km, 93 miles away), nearly 4 p.m., but we got there and that was a victory in and of itself. We met Denise and Daniel Lubrez ...