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For our base to see the beaches of Normandy, we stayed in a little hotel just outside the main city area of Bayeux, France.  The room was really small, but the area was nice; we could see the town of Bayeux and there were cows right behind the hotel, which Rebecca thought was cool. Read the rest of this entry »

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We took a short detour to Dover from Calais.  Calais to Dover appears to be the shortest distance between France and England.  We had breakfast (such as it was) on the ferry, watched the White Cliffs approach, and then disembarked to take a short trip to Dover Castle.  Read the rest of this entry »

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In Flanders Fields…no poppies grow, between the crosses where the mowers mow!  At least not in the Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial in Waregem, or around the town of Ieper, where the In Flanders Fields museum is located.  Still, both are worth a stop and made a good start to our “military history trip”. Read the rest of this entry »

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It was an easy drive of just a few hours from our house to the hotel in Brussels.  The skies got grayer and the temperature chillier as we drove, but fortunately it didn’t actually rain on us while we explored a few of the sights. Read the rest of this entry »

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We stopped for the night in Dresden on our way back home from Poland.  Unfortunately, it was chilly and rainy and gray, but we took the bus from our hotel to the Altstadt just to see some of the sights.

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The weather turned colder and rainier on our way to Krakow, but the road was not nearly as bad as we had expected, until we got off the highway and drove into Krakow.  Read the rest of this entry »

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Spring Break 2010!  This year, we decided to go east and visit Poland. We were a little concerned, since the day before we left there was a tragic plane crash which killed the Polish President, his wife, and a significant number of the top government and military officials of Poland. Still, we’d made all the reservations already, so we packed up the car and headed east. Read the rest of this entry »

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We took our Christmas vacation early this year (I’m covering work for someone else during the holiday week).  So, for our early Christmas/celebrating Rebecca’s 13th birthday, we went to Rome. Read the rest of this entry »

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For Thanksgiving this year, we took a train trip to Berlin.  We’ve now mastered the intricacies of public transportation in Stuttgart—caught the 0607 bus from the stop around the corner, to the Böblingen station to catch the S-Bahn to the Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof, and on to the train, where we discovered it is indeed easy to make a very short connection at the Hannover train station.  We arrived in Berlin in early afternoon, about seven hours after leaving our house. Read the rest of this entry »

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