Tag Archives: Old Town
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Library

Close to the underground movie theatres is the public library.  Today, on the way back from the Altstadtfest, we circled around the library  to get signed up.  The service is free, you are allowed to keep stuff for 4 weeks and if you are late the penalty is € 0.10/week for each late item.  There is […]

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Only Lyon

We are exploring Lyon, the second largest city in France after Paris. The city is equally as busy and beautiful and charming as Paris.  From Roman times to modern times there is bit of of something for everyone here.  We managed to see both rivers, and a few churches, the opera house, the Roman ruins, […]

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Going Back

So after almost 30 years I am back in the city I grew up in. While a lot has changed it here, not much really did. In the end it is really all a matter of perspective.  What seemed bright, huge and wonderful as I remembered it, is now aged, dull and all plastered in […]

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Something to say

It seems that every time we turn around there is a demonstration somewhere protesting this that or the other.  Today, on the demonstration agenda are the dolphins at the Nuremburg Zoo.  I have to say that we much preferred the noise of  the kilted musicians to the bells and chanting of the dolphin parade.  After […]

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Lazise

Lazise is a small port town with a great castle dating back to late 800s.  Like most old European towns this one too has a small beautiful square a nice old church, Saint Nicolò, dating back to 1200s and beautiful painted houses.  Of course the lake is the dominant feature of this little municipality so we try […]

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Bierfest

Today is, if you are a god-fearing folk, a Happy Cadaver Day, literal translation in German. This means it’s a holiday and everything is closed except churches and beer gardens, both of which are open for business and will gladly take your money.  Since we don’t drink beer, but have been to church before, we […]

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Plock

Our relentless pursuit of the required documents continues.  Sometimes I think it would have been easier to find a Yeti in the Himalayas than to get the right stamp on the correct piece of paper in the Bureaucratic Republic of Poland.  Undaunted we forge ahead.  Today we set out to Plock, the last place where […]

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