Sunday, we were raring to start our trek, so we strapped on our packs and started out fairly early. Our goal was Carrara, where we had booked at a B&B. This part of Italy is serious marble country; some of the best marble in the world is from Carrara. As we walked, we could see …
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The rest of the Rennsteig . . .
was like the first two days. Opa Dieter continued to lead the way, engaging everyone he met in conversationand Omas Marlena and Gunna kept right up.Sadly, Wolfgang was not able to walk the entire way; he felt that his obligations as beer and sandwich provider required him to drive, much as he would have preferred …
Octoberfest – was everything they said it was!
The date of our trip to Munich was set to allow us to go to Heimi’s (Lena’s aunt’s) birthday party; it was just a fortunate coincidence that Octoberfest began the same weekend. We joined Lena’s family in celebrating this traditional autumn festival. Those in our group who could, dressed appropriatelybut Leslie Ruth had no dirndle, …
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East west wherever you meet family and friends is best
We have had a wonderful few weeks, filled with visits with family and friends. First, Mary Battista and her granddaughter Sara Battista surprised us in Siena. We went to language school together and had lots of fun sharing meals, apperitivi in the beautiful Piazza del Campo, and field trips in Chianti. We spoke Italian together …
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Back on the trail again!
We had a wonderful two weeks in Siena at school with Jane and Jim, but now we are happy to be back on the trail again. We do enjoy doing things we are comfortable with when we travel. Siena falls squarely in that category. We’ve visited five times now, for a total of about twelve …
And we’re off!
We’ve been so busy there just has not been time to post, for which we apologize to our faithful readers. After a wonderful trip to Germany visiting Lena’s family(more posts on that shortly) we returned to Siena and Italian language school.Our sister Jane and brother in law Jim, were thereand we had a wonderful time …
Rennsteig day two
Perhaps concerned that Karl had not finished his dinner, and would falter on the Rennsteig, the hotel laid out a huge spread for breakfast.The owner of the hotel also ran the local bakery, so there were plenty of rolls and pastries. Properly fortified, we boarded our taxis and returned to Oberland am Rennsteig where we …
And we’re off again!
Sunday morning, our group met at the appointed hour and we set off on the Rennsteig, which runs right through Neuhaus, the town we were in.All 12 of us were in good spirits and looked forward to our adventure.Pretty soon, we came to a Rennsteig mile marker (kilometer marker?) showing that we had 51 Kilometers …
We meet our Rennsteig family
After taking three trains, we arrived in Neuhaus am Rennweg. The trains helped revive our image of Germany as highly efficient; we had two, ten minute layovers, each of which went like clockwork. The trains arrived exactly on time, and we just strolled over to the track the next train was on, which was printed …
Update – all is well
As we were standing on line at the hotel desk, waiting to speak to the clerk, a German man got on line behind us. When it was our turn, we explained to the clerk that we had to leave to catch our train and asked if he could call Lufthansa one more time. He made …
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