View from the Edge

My plan for the morning of Sept 3 was to explore some of the amazing parks I’d been seeing in my travels the past couple of days. The number, and size, of the parks in Warsaw really surprised me. And given that many of them were created and/or maintained under the communist occupation, it really […]

One of the fascinating things about travelling in Europe is the history from a variety of different periods. Most cities have an Old Town, where the original settlement occurred, and one or more New Towns, where populations moved in different ages. In Prague, Old Town is on one side of the river, and later in […]

While wandering around the complex for the Palac Kultury the previous day, I noticed a Science and Technology museum nestled in amongst the rest. Being the geek that I am, very little interests me more than an S&T museum, especially in a country I’ve never been before. While its true that science is something of […]

One of the things that I was most unsure of before going to Europe, turned out to be one of the best and simplest aspects of my time there. I’d never really ridden trains before. As a very young child, there was a day-liner that ran from our small…

August 30th was my day to catch the interesting stuff I’d seen all over town that I still didn’t have pictures of. I new I was leaving that night, and wasn’t yet sure how I was getting back to Munich on the 6th, so I was trying to be sure I had a picture […]

I had 2 main objectives on Aug 29, 2005 … the first was to check out the Tower on Charles Bridge, and the second was to get some shots from the Strana Hill after dark. Though it wasn’t quite as many steps as the St. Nicholas Church tower from the previous day, […]

My colleague Susan had to leave early, and by the morning of the 28th, she was back in Munich awaiting her flight back to San Diego. I decided to spend a few more days before heading on to Warsaw, as there were a few things I still wanted to see. One of the best […]

The 26th and 27th kind of ran together for us … we did a LOT of walking around, trying to see what there was to see.  Most of my day on the 26th was spent taking pics of flowers … not sure why, but that day the flowers were really grabbing me.  […]

The overnight from Munich was uneventful. As we were late getting our tickets, we got a normal ticket, rather than a sleeper car … for the record, sleeping in the normal seats on a train is not terribly fun, and after spending an evening looking for and finding the Hofbrauhaus, neither Susan nor I […]

By the 24th of August, we were finished out work, and my colleague Susan and I decided to travel a bit before coming home. We both were interested in seeing Prague, but Susan had a rental car she needed to return in Munich, so that was our first stop. After returning the car […]