Golden Tulip Trier

... and eye shades have never felt just that good.
Quotes:
'It is such a novelty making ones own bed...' Hols as we make our own beds using packs of sheets.
'At least I will die quick if you fall on me...' Jamie to Ed as he took the bottom bunk bed.

Onto Saturday and our Lux exploration...bri arrives hundover after a 4am dance session. We head off in the rain to the best hot chocolate in the world. Chunks of solid chocolate the size of ice ...

... wrist. This apparently put a dent in her trip and the hospital in Paris wasn't going to be able to put on a lighter cast for her until Friday so we went ahead and had her come out today and replaced the cast with an ace bandage ourselves. She was a little frightened, but I'm sure her wrist will be okay. The trip here was very pretty and I wish I could have taken pictures but the train was moving too quick to really catch anything. It was my first trip on a ...

... area about 5 minutes outside of town that she takes the dogs to. It is a huge farm and there is a road that winds all the way around it. It took about an hour to walk the length of the road. The dogs love it. It was a bit chilly, especially when the wind was blowing. Conrad had to stop and feed some cows. It was fun to play with the dogs.

When we got back to the car, we went to see a waterfall. It was a ...

... felt like we were flying, as there was a think layer of fog cutting us off from below. We had supper at the hotel, which was amazing, and the staff was hilarious...not even becoming perturbed when 2/3 kids dumped their drinks! The one waiter gave a Vorfuehrung of various dialects...(one sounded like Theo!) and I overheard another waiter asking a man dining alone if he wanted his bill, and then replying, when he received an affirmative ...

... the best apple-based dessert I've ever had (except it didn't need the caramel :) - the pastry was exceptionally good, light and flaky, but not too much so (like allegro ma non troppo). I cross the Rhine again, past the Kaiser Stuhl wine region and into the Black Forest. I see snow on the mountains ahead, and as I drive up into them it's snowing and a layer of snow about 20-30 cms deep covers the ground to the edge of the road. It gets dark early now and it's raining and foggy so I ...

I'm now in Deutschland! We're staying at the Europaische Akadimie Otzenhausen (European Academy Otzenhausen) and I love it here. There are tall pine trees that remind me of East Texas (there weren't many pines where we were in France) and though we're next to a small town we're surrounded by nature and can actually here the birds (which also reminds me of home). The EAO has a sort of university setting ...

... information we need but I find it all to be very interesting. The catacombs are not technically catacombs. The Romans were not allowed to bury their dead in the city so the Christians built a huge building outside the city wall and basically just layered coffins in the building up 6 layers. Then, they decided it should be a church because a pope was buried there so it became a church and a monk ...

... 279;dom vienoj is kavinių atsigaivinti visokiausiais skysčiais. Tuo pat metu galėjau neskubėdamas fotografuoti visiskai salia esančią, Triero miesto simboliu laikomą, Porta Nigra. Tai senoviniai, dar romėnų laikų vartai į miestą, dėl savo juodos spalvos pavadinime įgavę "Nigra" zodį. Pasėdėję ir atsigaivinę daugiau nebetrunkam, sėdam į masiną ir sukam Liuksemburgo link.

Our family travelled to Luxembourg for a week for a work conference. Was it just me or was there a bank on every corner? I think the trip was quite expensive for my parents.
Assuming it was because there are so many languages spoken in ...

Saturday 23/3 -Travelled from Paris to Luxembourg dept 11.03 arr 14.44. Had a quick look around Luxembourg to get acquainted with the city, then found a church for Sunday mass.

Sunday 24/3 - After mass (in German) at 10am, we had a look around ...