Month: June 2023

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Erfurt – near Munich

It’s alive

We stayed here to launch into Munich for a few days. It’s a cheaper place to stay. And it is cute little old town.

Every town needs an obelisk
Enter only with a ticket. But no one is checking
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Nymphenburg Palace

The palace of the Bavarian kings. Click the link below to read about the palace and the place the royals kept their beautiful carriages, sleds and horses.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphenburg_Palace

Coronation robes for the king’s horse
Stuffed
For kids, princes and princesses
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Munich

as far as I am concerned the Hofbrauhaus is the most famous Bier hall in the world. I’ve known about this place for 62 years. It seems to be doing very well and it was great visiting and trying the beer and some snack. This beer hall is well known to everyone who ate at Schroeder’s Café in San Francisco which is still there on Front Street.

This visitor found the beer hall to be hot enough to use her fan, not the western style fan.
This lady was selling pretzels in the beer hall
This meal was had at a Google maps recommended restaurant in Munich. The food was very nice. Pigs knuckle along with Bavarian white sausage
Many hotels don’t have a kettle to boil water in the morning for coffee so I bought an inexpensive one to carry along since I can’t survive in the morning without a cup of coffee
Frauenkirche
dragons live!
The glockenspiel. We used to say this word often when I was young and we never knew what it was. Now I know.
A memorial to the Jews who were massacred throughout Europe in the 1930s and 40s
Below you will see what I’m holding up
Marx and Engels. I could write many pages about these guys I studied at Cornell but not here.
Of course the famous Brandenburg gate
The Munich train station
A little history concerning the separation of Berlin
Tear down that wall
Checkpoint Charlie
I surrendered here
I bought their beer mug when I was eight years old at Schroeder’s Café in the city
This is what it takes to get a good photo
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Fun! – Norway

Trolls are everywhere in the mountains
Well? It’s Norwegian not English.
11:30 pm photo of our EV
A picnic
The sun at midnight on a fjord
12:30 am
Breakfast cheeses
Took the photo too late
Waiting to get on the ferry to cross the fjord. license plates are scanned and invoices sent to all drivers automatically. No cash or payment at the site.
tourists from the bus taking photos
proper spelling for ice cream
Your new traveling sauna?
tasty prosciutto salad
available everywhere. pigs in a blanket seem to be the most popular sausage outside the standard frankfurter
1/4the way through the 24 km tunnel, not even half as long as the longest in the world
water turns this to produce electricity
gotta get in the photos sometimes
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Oslo – with friends

The palace
he looks like Danny Kaye
city hall, today with Iranians demonstrating
black headed sea gull , smaller than the gray one
the workers of Norway memorialized…blindly?
the aftermath of the fire while we were there
pronounced “Monk”, statue at the Law School of the University
the law school
maybe you have heard of Bird Rock in Monterey, California, known for the white color and the smell. These seagulls are turning this guy into bird statue
This is the HQ of Mr. Thon who is the owner of the Thon hotel group, a very wealthy and unassuming man
busy Oslo station
Sauna houses you can rent to motor out further and back. jump in the ocean and then into the sauna you go.
this is “art”. I thought it was left over building garbage from construction of the building below. Not the case.
the opera house
Oslo city beach
the Scots were in town playing soccer against another team, probably Norway
the airport smoking room. How many travelers can you smash into a phone booth?