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Wandering around Lembach, Lembach, France travel blog

Wandering around Lembach

A travel blog entry by jsiess

... -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, Lembach, France travel blog

Chateau Fleckenstein and the Maginot Line

A travel blog entry by jsiess

... 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, Lembach, France travel blog

Fancy dinner at the Auberge de Cheval Blanc

A travel blog entry by jsiess

... 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 ...

Armistice Day in France, Museum of Alsatian Jewry, Lembach, France travel blog

Armistice Day in France, Museum of Alsatian Jewry

A travel blog entry by jsiess

      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!, Lembach, France travel blog

Lazy Day in Lembach--and a Birthday!

A travel blog entry by jsiess

... 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, Lembach, France travel blog

Visit to Lembach, Alsace, France

A travel blog entry by jsiess

... a major 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 ...

Getting to France--not an easy task, Lembach, France travel blog

Getting to France--not an easy task

A travel blog entry by jsiess

... with 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 ...

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