tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67464369772289931002023-12-13T17:19:58.542-06:00Skitler Sightings and Travel TalesSkitler Sightings and Travel Tales is travel blog devoted to the places I have been and also places my little pink/white stuffed animal, Skitler, has seen. (I am quite tired of having photos of just scenery...now Skitler takes the place of people).Kristy McCoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04558285386414038369noreply@blogger.comBlogger162125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6746436977228993100.post-63961150589115098932017-06-13T19:14:00.000-05:002023-04-22T00:32:27.504-05:00Tulip Trip to the Netherlands: Kinderdijk, Dordrecht, and Leiden (May 02, 2017)<b><i>Day 4 - Tuesday, May 2, 2017</i></b><br />
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A gray, misty day didn't keep us away from the Kinderdijk UNESCO World Heritage Windmills. After some confusing research, we took an early train to Dordrecht and walked to the first waterbus stop. We got all day hop-on hop-off pass (cash only) and went one stop to the main waterbus stop in Dordrecht. We caught the next waterbus to Ridderkirk and took a small boat ferry to Kinderdijk.<br />
We got the hopper boat and museum package from the ticket booth so we could go inside and learn more about the windmills and windmill life.<br />
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The most fascinating part of Kinderdijk is how many are still functioning as homes, farms, and businesses. <br />
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It was beautiful in the mist. When the crowds got thicker, the rain fell harder, so we headed out. We made it at the perfect time to get the express waterbus straight from Kinderdijk to Dordrecht. Super lucky and fortuitous timing.<br />
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Once in Dordrecht (2-ish), we were starving. Shelby took us to a fascinating restaurant/theatre/stage called Khoutinsky with a super nice waitress who gave us tons of free postcards (ads but I don't care) and seemed highly intrigued and confused on how we had made it to her town. We split a feta, watermelon salsa, mint Khoutinsky fried burger with fries and a delicious piece of cake.<br />
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After an odd, but good, meal, we wandered around Dordrecht which is fascinatingly separated into old and new sections in spurts around the town.<br />
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We saw some really cool antique shops and building clusters, an artist doing mosaic in the window, and Leonidas chocolates! After exploring and buying Kristy's favorite pineapple white chocolate chocolates, we headed back to Leiden to explore more of our town.<br />
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While walking back to our apartment, we saw yet another haring booth. It is very common to see Dutch people consuming headless herring covered in onions by holding them by the tail, tipping back their mouths, and taking a huge bite. While in Italy Shelby was willing to consume horse, but this was a no-go for her. I was the more adventurous eater this trip.<br />
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Shelby was tasked with picking a restaurant for our last night. She chose a highly recommended restaurant where we got <gasp> pancakes! Shelby just got the ham and used maple syrup. I got the banana and powdered sugar. It was super tasty. Shelby’s favorite meal of the trip.</gasp><br />
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We took a wandering path to get back to the apartment. We saw way more of the awesome poems on the buildings and passed lovely homes, churches, canals, and flowers. We saw and smelled wisteria climbing on walls and even got a person on a bike to take a photo of us with one particularly lovely wall.<br /><br />
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<gasp>We passed the Leiden college campus and could certainly see the appeal of studying in the city.<br />
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<gasp>Dennis graciously took us to the train station at 6:30am so we could get the train back to Amsteram Schipol. It was a very easy 15 minute ride.</gasp><br />
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Once at Schipol, check-in was easy and security efficient. The lounge was very nice with a full breakfast to satiate us before our flight. I had made little Thank You baggies for our flight crew for each flight. Lately I feel like airlines are being vilified, and I don’t think being an airline attendant would be a particularly easy job, so I like to thank them. Our seats were near the back of the plane, and we had time to chat with two of the flight crew as boarding was commencing. I gave them two baggies of goodies and a heartfelt thank you.<br /><br />
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<gasp>Entertainment was good on the flight and the flight to Minneapolis passed fairly quickly considering. <br />
Toward the end of the flight, the flight attendant came over and said, “Earlier in this flight you did something that touched me and changed the course of my day. We have little tokens of appreciation the crew can bestow upon passengers. We’d like to give this to you.” He gave Shelby and I a bell from Chaing Mai, Thailand and worry dolls. It was such a splendid gesture.<br /><br />
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<gasp>Customs was very easy in MSP, and we were quickly back through security and on our way to the lounge in Minneapolis Saint Paul airport. This airport is going thru a very nice overhaul and renovation. The lounge is the best one we’ve been to in the USA. Friendly staff, lots of seating options, and great food choices.<br /><br />
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<gasp>Our time passed quickly, and then we were on our way back to DFW and home.<br />
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Due to a rainy forecast, almost everything being closed on Mondays, and a desire to buy tulip bulbs, we headed to Amsterdam Central.<br />
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We wandered to the Waterlooplein flea market but most stalls weren't open (we imagine due to rain). Shelby did manage to find a gift for her sister however. <br />
We followed the flea market with a trip to Kitten Kabinet, a quirky little cat museum. They had the most random cat displays and art, and a few cats including an adorable one fascinated with a feather.<br />
Then it was time for Bloemenmarkt to find tulips. The Bloemenmarkt is the only floating flower market in the world. It's AMAZING how inexpensive flowers are in the Netherlands. Gorgeous bouquets that would cost us $50+ were only €10!<br />
Alas, sadly there were no tulips we could take home as you need a valid certificate for USA or Canada. You couldn’t even buy the bulbs in a can for USA/Canada consumption.<br />
But we did visit a shop that sells only rubber duckies, and we went to The Happy Pig Pancake Shop for lunch based on a recommendation by Ellen Patton. Shelby got the bacon syrup. Kristy got banana and powdered sugar. And Shelby discovered a new favorite soda, Fritz Kola, here. <br />
Afterward, we went to an artisan and preservative free amazing chocolate shop called Puccini Bomboni. The smells in this place! Shelby got a raspberry, caramel, and pecan. Kristy got hazelnut, caramel, and walnut. Might be the best chocolate I've ever eaten.<br />
After the chocolate shop, it was a visit to the tulip museum and cheese museum. The tulip museum had beautiful ornaments.<br />
It was again confirmed to us that tulip bulbs would come available in June, and we'd gotten thru our Amsterdam list, so we hopped on a train to Haarlem.<br />
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It had been a coldish and wet day, so when I found a soup restaurant with amazing reviews on Yelp for dinner, I jumped at it. Shelby got a big bowl of the Greek lemon, chicken, and spinach soup with bread while Kristy got a sampler of two small soups, the same Greek one Shelby had and a pumpkin veggie. The bread was hearty and the soup was delish. I highly wish I could recreate the Greek soup.<br />
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After a yummy dinner, the skies were clear and temperatures were lovely for a wandering stroll around Haarlem.<br />
Haarlem is so green with so many trees along the canals. It seemed like every tree had a different variety as its neighbor. The town feels lived in but loved. Super clean. We didn't have nearly enough time to explore before heading back for the evening.<br />
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Knowing our intent for the entire trip was to see the tulips in their splendor, we were paying close attention to the weather forecast. Although we would have preferred not to go to the fields on a weekend, the weather looked best for this day so we headed to Keukenhof. I had done lots of research that had talked about where to buy a combi pass for transportation and entry into Keukenhof...sadly one location was closed on Sunday and the other was in the bookstore on the inside of the train station where you needed a ticket to enter. We should have purchased online, as we spent way too long wandering around. Finally we just went to where the buses for Keukenhof depart, and they were selling the combi pass there!<br />
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Keukenhof was magnificent. It is definitely more than just a master planned garden. It is a work of art. There are so many colors. I loved the dark dark almost black ones best. Their sheen made them appear wet.<br />
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Some tulips opened wide, some remained tightly shut, others had ragged edges. The variations were astounding. We could buy collections of tulip bulbs for a later shipment, but sadly could buy no bulbs…not the right season. <br />
Shelby did buy a lily tree bulb. To bring back any bulbs to the USA, you need a certificate created within the last several weeks.<br />
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Shelby had a Dutch wurst (sausage) for lunch in Keukenhof. I had a sandwich I made from the grocery store. We ate around a Calliope playing Grease and Barbara Ann instrumentals while people watching. We both later had stroopwafels. It got warm and crazy crowded around one, so we opted to head back.<br />
(There are a few places to catch the bus depending on which place you are returning to. All are clearly labeled, yet, for some reason, the Keukenhof bus had to keep telling people we were going to Leiden and not the airport.)<br />
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Before leaving, we asked someone at the exit if they'd go to Haarlem or Delft with the rest of the day. They said Delft was like Leiden but older, so they'd pick Haarlem for the nightlife and shopping. Due to this rec, we chose to go to Delft on the train after arriving back to Leiden. Their description of Haarlem, we'd find, was fairly inaccurate.<br />
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We loved Delft...from the cute streets and adorable buildings to the antique shops with tiles from the 1600s and homemade ice skates. Shelby bought a tile from 1740 once used in a building in Delft.<br />
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We loved the tile/Delft blue pottery/china shops, seeing the Girl in the Pearl Earring references, and hanging in the great town square.<br />
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We spent a lot of time trying samples in a cheese shop with a delightful young lady working inside. She introduced us to her favorite 2 year old sheep cheese with a date balsamic cheese dip which Shelby wound up buying. Apparently it is traditional to use dip or mustard on your cheese in Holland.<br />
She also recommended some smoke goat cheese that Shelby and I both bought.<br />
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Then a funny store sign caught our eye, and we went inside the Two to Three tea shop/bakery for an incredible red velvet with cookies 'n cream cupcake with salted caramel icing and a chocolate cheesecake cupcake that we split. The shopkeeper was delightfully nice here too.<br />
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We had pancakes for dinner. Kristy had feta, leek, walnut, and honey (didn't like the leeks) and Shelby got ham, kass en ei (ham, cheese, and egg).<br />
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We wandered around a bit more before heading back to Leiden and working on the following day's plans.<br />
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<b><i>Day 0 - Friday, April 28, 2017</i></b><br />
DFW to ATL to AMS<br />
While I absolutely love having the Priority Pass that gives you lounge access, the DFW lounge has to be one of the weakest we’ve been to. Regardless, free beverages even if the staff is slow to restock and a touch rude.<br />
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When we found out the flight to Atlanta was going to be delayed, I went to ask the desk if there was anything we could do to help expedite ourselves or the chances the next plane would be held. We only had a 40 minute connection, and I was nervous. Turns out I was speaking to the pilot. He was incredibly kind. He told us about the layout of Atlanta's airport and told us he'd speed. He really did put the pedal to the metal. We wound up somehow landing on time and getting to our gate during the boarding process. He even mentioned me on the intercom! <br />
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<b><i>Day 1 - Saturday, April 29, 2017</i></b><br />
We arrived in Schipol around 1pm.<br />
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We found the train station (so easy), and, while it wouldn’t take our credit cards (heads up…Visa is not well accepted in the Netherlands) and we had to use my Schwab debit card, we did luck out and each got a free sample of First Choice cola (original American taste) from the company who had a booth in the train station.<br />
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We’d already received train information from our AirBnB host in Leiden, and we took the train to Leiden Central where Dennis, our nice AirBnB host, was waiting to take us to the apartment.<br />
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Dinner was chicken from the market for Shelby and grocery store chicken from quick shopping at Dirk's grocery for Kristy.<br />
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Nobody cares about this but me, but I kept track of the 17 books I read over the Summer of 2015 and our tent set-up times.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Don’t Expect Magic</i> by Kathy McCullough (liked)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>The Diviners</i> by Libba Bray (nah)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Navigating Early</i> by Clare Vanderpool (loved)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>The Pilot’s Wife</i> by Anita Shreve (whoa)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Freak the Mighty</i> by Rodman Philbrick (liked)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Courage for Beginners</i> by Karen Harrington (loved)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>This is What Happy Looks Like</i> by Jennifer Smith (loved)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Flora & Ulysses</i> by Kate DiCamillo (liked)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Etiquette & Espionage </i>by Gail Carriger (first in series – awesome series, loved book)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Curtsies & Conspiracies </i>by Gail Carriger (second in series – awesome series, loved book)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Waistcoats & Weaponry</i> by Gail Carriger (last in series – awesome series, liked book)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>A Memory of Violets</i> by Hazel Gaynor (whoa)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>The Silent Boy</i> by Lois Lowry (liked)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Proxy </i>by Alex London (liked)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Forget Me</i> by Karen Harrington (loved)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Invaded </i>by Melissa Landers (first in series – awesome series, loved book)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Alienated </i>by Melissa Landers (last in series – awesome series, loved book)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Tent Times</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Legend: Tent (T), Rainfly (RF), Garage (G)<o:p></o:p></div>
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6/15: 31 min TRF<o:p></o:p></div>
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6/16: 22 min 35 sec TRF<o:p></o:p></div>
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6/17: 20 min 15 sec T<o:p></o:p></div>
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6/19: 19 T<o:p></o:p></div>
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6/21: 45 min TRFG (bear country)<o:p></o:p></div>
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6/26: 26 min 20 sec TG<o:p></o:p></div>
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6/29: 42 min TRFG & camping chairs<o:p></o:p></div>
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7/04: 21 min T<o:p></o:p></div>
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7/13: 30 min 2 sec TRFG & camping chairs<o:p></o:p></div>
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7/17: 13 min 2 sec T<o:p></o:p></div>
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Spending a summer in a car with Kris provided many
opportunities for laughter. The truth
is, he’s a funny guy. The unique part of
this trip was that I decided to spend time scribing turns of phrase that I
would later dub “Kriserisms”. (I derive this from the word mannerisms. I know there are a lot of "isms" out there and this could easily be called Krisisms, but I don't feel like it's as easy to read.)</div>
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Truth is…I
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Without further ado, here are some Kriserisms from the
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->“Need a rest stop? <pause> I hope not…because it’s closed.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->I (Kristy) might have the smallest bladder known
to man, so Kris was often keeping his eyes peeled for a rest stop, especially
if it had been a while since the last one.
This one teased us.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->“I feel greasy and minty.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Said after I put peppermint essential oil on his
head since he had a headache. I felt terrible
after some of it dripped into his eye.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->“I don’t have to be careful.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->This has been Kris’s favorite phrase, but I
abhor it. Any time I say “careful” about
anything, this is Kris’s response.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->“If a bear’s chewing on you, punch it in the
face.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->We were going to bear country, and I was asking
how we could protect ourselves. This was
Kris’s advice.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->“This is exactly how I envisioned our vacation.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->I was part of a FitBit challenge during the
vacation, and I had to get at least 10,000 steps a day. This meant I was often taking steps in the
tent before going to bed. This was said
during one of these moments.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->“#1 Thing to do in Cheyenne (Wyoming): rodeo.
#2 thing: Welcome Center. Hmmmm….”<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->“I like this road. It’s very straight.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->“Should we tune to 100FM? Just a repeating loop of ‘Good luck’.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->“Every day you have all you can eat trout.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Said to me after passing up a restaurant with
all you can eat trout. Because I’m
allergic, Kris pointed out that every day for me is all you can eat fish day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->“I can talk about physics, but I can’t put on a
pull-over.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Kris after he put on his pull-over backwards for
the second or third time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->“If you ever see a sign that says, ‘Do not
spread jam on bread while driving’ that was me.
Sorry.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->“If Facebook sees me in my doofy hat, it thinks
I’m dad.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Kris has a funny looking hikers hat. If he’s wearing it in a photo, Facebook asks
if he wants to tag his dad.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->“I like pavement.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->“Do you have some oil you can rub on your face
for that?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Said any time anything went wrong or anything
hurt after the peppermint oil debacle.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->“I need a break from scenery so scenery becomes
impressive again.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->We saw some amazing places. <o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->“I miss underwear.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->I wish I remembered why he said this.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->“My plan for San Francisco is...I’m going to
walk around for 3 days asking people where I can get some Rice-a-Roni.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->“No Welcome to California sign. Just 60 signs telling you what’s not allowed
and an inspection station doing profiling.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->“It’s still cheaper than going to a laundromat
in Reno.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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So this is just an accounting of some of the funny things my
husband said on vacation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He tried to collect some Kristyisms, but the only funny
thing I said all trip was during our second or third day of camping. </div>
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It was raining every night on us in the tent,
so I wasn’t able to go to the bathroom at leisure, plus making/taking down the
tent was a pain. I apparently woke up
one morning, groaned, and immediately covered my head. When Kris asked what was wrong, I replied,
“Too much camping.” Since it was only
2-3 days into what would be many more weeks of camping, Kris cracked up. This phrase has become part of our
vocabulary. We use it whenever we’re
generally just frustrated with no real reason why.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb58NjFR1P9x2EXsu6vTMVJPoR1Yk6KuZj9xuz3q3e_26rU30RWGz8Dofxil7tX_gN_5eWZbxzg7Qho2VT9iVAoLfrQXZRCh959Zy4ktGAMPwm0S1UB600y7vmm1EhI-JjCiIfpNUzdF-k/s1600/BlogSignature03.png"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb58NjFR1P9x2EXsu6vTMVJPoR1Yk6KuZj9xuz3q3e_26rU30RWGz8Dofxil7tX_gN_5eWZbxzg7Qho2VT9iVAoLfrQXZRCh959Zy4ktGAMPwm0S1UB600y7vmm1EhI-JjCiIfpNUzdF-k/s320/BlogSignature03.png" width="320" /></a>Kristy McCoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04558285386414038369noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6746436977228993100.post-51579453434357368972017-04-02T21:47:00.000-05:002017-04-03T00:12:29.650-05:00Berlin Broke My Blog (July 3, 2014)Today is April 2, 2017...it's been far too long since I've blogged. <br />
I say that Berlin broke the blog...not because I didn't like Berlin...I did. More because seeing the lines that represented the wall that divided the city really hit me deeply...especially since we were seeing this city on July 3rd & 4th (USA Independence Day) in 2014. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Walking the marker that represents the Berlin wall was a somber experience.</i></td></tr>
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When you added up our trip to the Anne Frank House, the readings I'd been doing on the Holocaust, the trip to Dachau, the memorials in Budapest and the Terror Museum...Berlin just cemented it all in.<br />
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I haven't successfully written a blog post since. But I will. I'm going to finish Berlin (July 3rd and 4th of 2014) and then I'm going to start from my latest trip and work my way backward. Because I miss the stories...<br />
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<b><i><u>July 3, 2014</u></i></b><br />
Truth is, we stayed in a lovely AirBnB Kris had found (<a href="http://www.airbnb.com/c/kmccoy1" target="_blank">save $40 using my AirBnB link</a>).<br />
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The Berlin train station is quite lovely, and I enjoyed the cartoonish street crossing signs.<br />
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And our first day in Berlin was largely spent admiring the colorful, powerful, large murals around the city.<br />
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I highly recommend doing a street art tour, even if it's self-guided.<br />
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Parts of the Berlin wall still stand, and these parts are covered in graffiti. I held most of it in reverence, but I had to laugh at this piece with David Hasselhoff.<br />
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It's hard to fathom that the Berlin wall stood in my lifetime. I appreciate that Berlin has emerged so colorful. </div>
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After the street art tour, Kris took us to Berlin's Computerspielemuseum.</div>
Since it is several years later, I can't remember what many of the items in the photos below were, but I do remember having fun...especially playing with the life-sized Atari joystick.<br />
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We hit a grocery store on the way back to our apartment where Kris made us some Spaetzle mit gewurtz hackfleisch und tomatensauce (dinner for two for only 6 Euro), and we did laundry. </div>
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In the words of Kris, "The wash cycle is very similar to how we do it in the states, but the dry cycle takes 2 days. As a bonus, all your clothes are crunchy!"</div>
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Kris and I woke up and took the local U to the Wien Meidling station where we caught a train to Kelenfoeld, Hungary before changing to the Budapest-Deli station. The ride was very pleasant, as we had a big 6 seater compartment to ourselves.<br />
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It rained on our journey, but stopped before we got to our final destination. From the Budapest-Deli station, we had a 15 minute walk with our bags almost directly upstairs to reach our hotel the Hilton Budapest. Google Maps never quite tells you how uphill a walk will be...<br />
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Talk about a great hotel. I was able to get a great deal with a website called TravelPony, and the Hilton still accepted our gold status. The hotel is in a fantastic location right in the heart of Old Town Budapest, and it even incorporates part of an old monastery into the architecture. They upgraded us to an executive suite and immediately allowed us to check in. We were so excited to see the nice sized room with mini fridge and hear about our awesome amenities of free breakfast, free wifi, and a free executive reception from 6-8:30pm every night. The executive lounge even had free cold water, juice, and soda any time of day as long as it was consumed in the lounge. What a perk!<br />
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After freshening up, we located an ATM and the restaurant, the Rivalda Cafe, where Carol had made reservations for our group. The Currens were running late and had given us permission to order for them. I ordered an eggplant and zucchini salad for myself, and we ordered three plates for either the table or for Carol and Clark to claim since Kris would eat any of the three - prosciutto farfalle, steak, and a stuffed chicken with mushroom sauce.<br />
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After a very tasty and satisfying meal, we were ready for our tour. Due to being in Budapest for such a limited amount of time, Carol and Clark had booked a tour for Budapest and invited us to come along. Our tour guide was named Eszter and was very sweet and knowledgeable.<br />
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We started our tour with a history lesson about Pest and Buda at the Fisherman's Bastion area, which wound up being the area where our hotel was located. <br />
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Eszter showed us Buda Castle, the odd statue called "the father of Budapest" in legends, and we got a great view of Parliament - quite the impressive building.<br />
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Our next stop was the Gellert Baths. These are Turkish baths founded in 1918 that are heated by geothermic activity in Budapest. They are house in a building that rather hides the stunning stained glass and ornate ceilings inside. The baths themselves look rather luxurious. <br />
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Just across the street from the Gellert Baths is the Cave Church of Budapest. While Kris, Clark, Carol, and Eszter went inside, I stayed outside and conversed with a couple of Australian girls who had just come from the Gellert Baths and were waiting on later massage appointments. They had opted earlier in the day to escape the rain, and they enjoyed themselves so much, they didn't see reason to end their fun.<br />
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To give us a chance to see some shopping splendor, Eszter next took us around the Budapest Nagy Vasarcsarnok (or Great Market Hall). The market was really nice. It was well lit, very spacious, and still didn't feel imposing. It was an interesting cultural experience.<br />
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Carol and Clark tried to haggle for a crocheted lace table runner, but the price was just too expensive. They offered a small cash discount, but it was still largely out of the price point one would expect to spend on a souvenir.<br />
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While the Currens tried to haggle, Kris was busy salivating over Hungarian langos.<br />
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Our next stop was purely awesome and all thanks to Carol. Budapest has something popping up called "ruin bars", and we got to go to Szimpla Kertmozi, one of the most famous of them, thanks to Carol's research. This is not a normal tour stop.<br />
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The premise is decorating with items that others have thrown away or considered trash, and the effect is really cool!<br />
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They have an autograph wall, and Carol and Kris each took a turn...so Queetar has been immortalized in Hungary.<br />
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While everyone else was busy learning about Hungary's important figures at our next stop (Heroes Square), I was busy watching and taking photos of a Hungarian dance troupe who were filming what I had to imagine was a dance video. It was cold, and they were in some skimpy clothes poor girls. They looked excellent though!<br />
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We walked across the Danube river by bridge and got back to our hotel to find we'd gotten turndown service and been left a free bottle of water and some delectable desserts. The Hilton Budapest treats their gold members really well!<br />
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We had been told, by Eszter, about the Hilton Budapest now occupying the space of an old monastery and walked to go explore the remains. The courtyard is fascinating, and, while down there, we noticed it was like a golden glowing hour for how Parliament was illuminated.<br />
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<i><b><u>Tuesday, July 1, 2014</u></b></i><br />
We took a long walking tour across Budapest to the Budapest-Nyugati station to get to a small town called Vac in Hungary. Along the way, we saw a bus driving in the Danube.<br />
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The train ride to Vac is only 30 minutes from Budapest, and the big draw in Vac are some old mummies fairly recently (all things considered) uncovered. Unfortunately, we did not know that the museum where the mummies are held is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays (everything I found online just said Mondays). <br />
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Regardless, it was really interesting to go to a small Hungarian town. It hadn't the wealth of Budapest, but the residents seem to have pride in their property. We got some reasonably priced, tasty gelato and strolled around the town and riverbank.<br />
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We wound up running into a graduation ceremony...seemed like almost the entire town was in attendance. I thought it odd that all of the graduates were wearing white gloves. Love seeing traditions of other places.<br />
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After unsuccessfully finding a place for lunch (they seem to only sell dessert in Vac), we arrived back to Nyugati station and decided to split a really quick lunch at the shopping mall attached. The only sign we could decipher was salad, pizza, and a drink for the equivalent of $7 or so. Since we could physically see the slice of pizza and types of salad in front of us, we opted to go for it. Hungarian is hard to understand!<br />
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Bellies full, we continued our walking tour of Budapest. First stop - one of the fanciest McDonalds ever. Seriously! Probably one of the fanciest in the world. This thing is built into an old train station. They use real silverware and have multiple floors.<br />
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We continued our walk into the Jewish quarter which we had glimpsed with our tour with Eszter, Carol, and Clark. We opted to tour the Budapest House of Terror although we were half an hour shy of the two hours they suggest to go through it. The Budapest Museum of Terror is actually housed in the former headquarters for the secret police of the Nazi and Communist governments. The awning with the word TERROR inscribed seems quite appropriate. Hundreds of innocent Jewish people were executed in the basement of this building. We actually had to wait quite a while to descend into the basement via elevator. It turned out the wait was due to a three-minute video of a guard explaining the execution process. Needless to say, it was chilling....ominous...dark.<br />
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They have a really nice memorial on the facade of the building with photographs, names, and dates to help remember those who needlessly suffered.<br />
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Not that everything we've done in Europe has been depressing...we have spent our fair share of time looking at playgrounds and marveling at the cool things inside. It sure is nice to see playgrounds where kids can still get hurt. Those are the best toys!<br />
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After a solid amount of relaxation and photo/blog editing while we waited for dark to arrive, we walked around old town for nighttime photographs. Budapest really is a twinkling city.<br />
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<i><b><u>Wednesday, July 2, 2014</u></b></i><br />
Since we stayed up late taking photos the night before, we had a very leisurely morning and breakfast checking out late and getting the Hilton Budapest to hold our bags. We went to Hospital in the Rock (Sziklakorhaz Muzeum), a very short distance from our hotel, for an interesting tour of a facility that functioned as a secret emergency hospital and nuclear bunker during World War II until July 1945. It was reopened during the 1956 Revolution to treat wounded civilians and soldiers. <br />
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They don't allow you to take photos once inside, but it's worth going. The only real problem I had was that they don't cap the tours, so my being at the back of the line really hurt me. I often couldn't hear the guide or fit into the room she was speaking about until other people had seen the entire thing and left.<br />
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The website actually has a great summary of the history and some wonderful photos: <a href="http://www.sziklakorhaz.eu/en/tortenet.">http://www.sziklakorhaz.eu/en/tortenet.</a><br />
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After the tour, we headed to the local train station to pick up an all day transportation pass. While there, Kris got a ham and corn slice of pizza. He liked it, but he was definitely skeptical at first.<br />
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Then we got on the local tram to the Zero Kilometer statue (some math thing) before riding the tram back and taking an underground train to the stop nearest to Parliament. <br />
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We walked over to get a better view of Shoes on the Danube - a memorial to Jewish people in Budapest who were mistreated by the Nazi regime. Eszter had explained the day before that they would tie a line of Jewish people together, take them to the riverfront, make them take off their shoes since they were made of nice leather, and then they'd shoot only one of the people in the line (so they only had to use one bullet) and push them into the river so everyone else would drown. It's a pretty powerful memorial with shoes of varying sizes and type.<br />
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We tried to go to the electric museum next, but, although we were there during open hours according to every source we could find, we couldn't figure out how to get inside. While there, a motorcycle rider rode up to the doors that said "Tesla" outside and pressed an intercom button. A person opened the doors and let them in. When I asked him how we could get in, he shouted at me in Hungarian and slammed the door shut. We decided we didn't want to give that museum our money anymore.<br />
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Hearing it had an interior worth seeing, we went to the Book Cafe where Kris got a slice of cake, and I enjoyed the interior and piano stylings of the house musician.<br />
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After another underground train ride, we wound up near Heroes Square again...but didn't even realize it. We were tracking down the Anonymous Statue...a math statue that is thought to be good luck on exams if you rub the pen the statue is holding.<br />
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It was found in a courtyard with some beautiful museums, complete with a protective dog.<br />
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We also found a nice park and some gorgeous flowers.<br />
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We relaxed in the park a while before getting back on public transportation to the Hilton Budapest to get our bags, get back on the underground, and get to the Budapest-Keleti station for our overnight sleeper train to Berlin.<br />
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Before boarding, I watched the bags so Kris could run in and grab beverages, snacks, and dinner for the train. I was obviously thrilled by the selection, but he really did the best he could in the time we'd allotted ourselves.<br />
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While on the train, I even took a shower. Let me tell you...that was a trick. The water runs less than 30 seconds before you have to press the button to make it run again...but it was a fun experience to shower in a moving train. It was definitely more fun to shower in the train than to try to sleep in the train which Kris seemed to do fine...but I did not. (I'll never figure out why I can sleep better sitting up in a seat in a train with my head bobbing than laying fully flat on the train. Mysterious of life.)<br />
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After another great breakfast at the Penzion DeLanta, we headed to the local grocery store to spend the rest of our CZK before heading off to Vienna with CK Shuttle. <br />
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We were picked up and in a van with the young Czech driver and five Japanese people. There was very little conversation in the car. One thing that I found odd was that all of the older Japanese women got into cars with their sweaters on and immediately closed the air vents that were pointed at them. Kris and I were warm so we had our vents wide open.<br />
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Next thing you know, they ask our driver to turn off the air conditioner! He turned it down to the lowest setting possible without turning it off. At the rest stop we took halfway through the ride, they all got out and put on their heavy jackets! Seriously...I thought I was cold natured, and I was hot in that car. Crazy!<br />
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After the three hour drive, the driver dropped them off at the train station. We had requested to be dropped at our hotel. We got in the middle row of seats (we had been in the back) and told the driver to feel free to turn up the air conditioner. He smiled and said, "full power!"<br />
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We are meeting our good travel buddies Carol and Clark in Wien before they depart on a Danube cruise. Their pretour package booked them in the Intercontinental Vienna, so I found a reasonably priced hotel directly across the street called the Starlight Suiten hotel. It had good reviews and is a small chain. After we checked in, we went to our suite. Talk about space! It was like a mini apartment! We had a microwave, mini fridge, free wifi, and tons of room. I wouldn't hesitate to stay in another one. Awesome!<br />
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Unfortunately, while the hotel had laundry service they did not have laundry facilities. Finding self service laundromats in Vienna city proper is not an easy task. After a bunch of internet research, we found a laundromat about a 30 minute walk from our hotel called Green and Clean. It's a really nice and large laundromat chain located all across the city.<br />
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We walked through Belvedere Park with all of our dirty clothes strapped to Kris's back in his backpack. It was loaded down, but it was lighter than his normal load. It was still funny to see him trudging through the pretty city park with a ginormous backpack.<br />
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Green and Clean has a bunch of different machine sizes. You can choose your capacity and choose if you want just a washer, just a dryer, or a machine that does both in one. For 15 Euro, we were able to put all of our clothes in one of the larger machines and set it to wash and dry. You don't need your own soap since the machine weighs your clothes and measures out their own soap based on the cycle you choose. After it starts, it locks and tells you the time the load will take. We had 76 minutes to kill, so we went down the street stopping in every supermarket and store we could.<br />
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After killing time, we came back to find our load just about ready for us. We used their handy folding table and quickly were back on the road to our hotel. We stopped at the grocery store to buy provisions for dinner and breakfast. Salad for Kristy and microwavable brats and pasta for Kris. We'd already picked up a mess of beverages in Cesky Krumlov with our leftover Czech money.<br />
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We had a relaxing evening at the hotel catching up on correspondence, photo editing, and watching German television. They have some odd commercials. This one was playing a lot for those interested: <a href="http://youtu.be/sl3X2ZyYZBE">http://youtu.be/sl3X2ZyYZBE</a>.<br />
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<i><b><u>Saturday, June 28, 2014</u></b></i><br />
The Currens arrived today. We had a nice leisurely breakfast while waiting to hear that they had arrived. Their hotel let them check in virtually as soon as they landed, so they came to our hotel rip, roaring, and ready to go. We presented them with their own can of Kofola.<br />
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Carol's first stop for us was the Hundertwasser Village. This crazy place really did channel Barcelona in spirit with mosiac work. It was the brainchild of artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser.<br />
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Trees grow on the roofs and color is everywhere. <br />
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Carol and I had to pay to go to see the toilets in this incredible place!<br />
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Next up was the Domkirche St. Stephan. This church had a crazy roof and odd gargoyles. It has the strange mix of new on top of old. Really fascinating.<br />
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A horse was getting his/her shoes fixed outside of the church while we were there.<br />
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Walking around with Carol and Clark while stopping here and there is always so much fun! While in Stephansplatz, we had to get up close and personal with the nail tree. This section of tree is centuries old. People would drive nails into it for good luck. There is even a statue depicting the practice in Stephansplatz. <br />
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For lunch, we stopped at Demel pastry cafe. You can watch the bakers there working on pastry perfections through the glass window right in front of where we were eating.<br />
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Clark and I just got dessert. Carol and Kris got some dainty sandwiches to go along with their desserts. The pastries were divine!<br />
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Bellies happy, our next stop was to see the beautiful architecture of Hofburg Wien. An area of land here shows how an excavation revealed the current palace is built on top of the old one.<br />
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The statues at Hofburg Wien were well crafted!<br />
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They even had a statue of John Goodman!<br />
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I doubt any trip to most cities is complete without a visit to the market. In Vienna, it is the Naschmarkt. We walked through the booths selling international food and bought some fresh juice (strawberry and dragonfruit) and bread for our sandwiches the next day.<br />
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Kris might have bought some type of dessert, but we had Marlene cookies waiting for us back at the hotel. Nothing beats Marlene cookies!<br />
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At this point we all split up to freshen up for dinner. Kris and I went to buy items for our picnic lunch the next day. I was sure Carol and Clark would go back to the hotel and nap, but they went shopping and did some photo editing. We met at their hotel to go to dinner at a very Austrian restaurant called Salm Bräu.<br />
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Carol ordered the famous spare ribs, Kris and Clark got chicken schnitzel, and I got beef gulasch with potatoes. I didn't like my gulasch meat (too fatty), so I ate the potatoes and a pretzel dipped in the sauce, and Kris gave me half of his schnitzel.<br />
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Before calling it a night, we strolled a bit through Stadtpark.<br />
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<i><b><u>Sunday, June 29, 2014</u></b></i><br />
Carol and Clark came over in the morning to make their sandwiches for the day's picnic lunch, and we all walked to the U Bahn station to get tickets to Schönbrunn Palace. Schönbrunn Palace is a former imperial 1,441-room Rococo summer residence in modern Vienna, Austria. <br />
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This place is impressive and massive and gorgeous and I simply can't explain the grandeur...and we didn't even go inside!<br />
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And the gardens are immaculately manicured!<br />
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The walk to the top was long and hot, but it sure was worthwhile. It felt like you could see the entirety of Vienna from atop Schönbrunn.<br />
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We opted to take the wooded path back down, and this was a great choice. We found a picnic table with a few birds and squirrels and sat down for our lunch with only mosquitos to bug us.<br />
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Unfortunately for us, the beautiful clear weather of the morning seemed to be taking a turn for the worse. We met our Segway tour guide, Charlie, at 2pm. He seemed satisfied with our Segway-ing prowess. Kris had never been on a Segway before but took to it easily...maybe too easily. I'd only been once before and was freaked out a bit about doing it in the city, and the Currens are pros now. We started heading out.<br />
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However, one thing Charlie said still sticks in my head. If you run into a plaque on a building in Wien (especially in the Jewish quarter) like the one I have pictured below, it likely has the names of the Jewish people who lived there and were victims of the Holocaust written on it. If they have more information, they include that info. <br />
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At the start of our tour, it only rained on us lightly. We weren't going to let that rain stop us. Kris also had a minor wipeout thanks to two impatient cars and a narrow turn, but we weren't going to let that stop us either. (Side note - Kris was a bit ticked off that I didn't get a photo of him sprawled out on the sidewalk next to his Segway in Vienna. I was too concerned about him to think about it.)<br />
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We zipped by the banks of the Danube and got to see all of this awesome spray paint art. I wish I could have photographed it, but no time.<br />
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Due to the tour ending short, we got a significant discount on our tour. We appreciated the discount and still had fun.<br />
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After our tour, we split up and Kris and I were put in charge of finding a close place for dinner. We found a great close place called the Stadtpark Bräu. We were really happy with the food, atmosphere, and prices, but we didn't expect to be charged for each piece of bread we ate that was put on the table. <br />
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WARNING - in Austria/Germany, if bread is put on your table, it may not be free.<br />
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Regardless, my spatzle and salad and Kris's mixed grill were delicious. Fairly confident that the Currens enjoyed their steaks too.<br />
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Our travel tale continues after we've been promptly picked up at 2pm by our CK Shuttle driver, David. The drive from Salzburg to Český Krumlov (pronounced Chess-key Crum-lov) takes about 2.5 hours.<br />
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David was a talkative, friendly fellow who has quite extensively traveled the world. He was quite knowledgeable and gave us a good history of Český Krumlov, the Czech Republic, gypsies (seemed to be hated around these parts), and food/beverages to try.<br />
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At a particular junction in the road, David asked us if we wanted to travel to Český Krumlov nearer to the river or a different route. Since everyone was tubing down the river (quite the sport in the Czech Republic), we chose to get a closer look at the action. Apparently almost everyone from the Czech Republic goes to Croatia for vacation too.<br />
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David was nice enough to stop at an ATM after we arrived in Český Krumlov so that we could pay in CZK instead of Euro (saves money that way...everyone seems to take Euro, but they definitely charge extra in Euro). The ride to the Penzion DeLanta (our lodging in Český Krumlov) was very expedient and safe.<br />
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The Penzion DeLanta was a very affordable and clean. Our stay was just 79 Euros for two nights. Breakfast, which was honestly huge and expansive, was 4 Euro per person per day. We opted to get breakfast both days (it wound up feeding us lunch too). There was fruit, cereal, oatmeal, yogurt, juices/coffee/tea, pastries, meat, bread, cheese, and eggs. So much tasty food! For less than $110 USD total, this stay was a steal of a deal!<br />
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After Martin checked us in and told us about local yummy eateries and things to do, we geared up for a possibly rainy nighttime stroll. Luckily the rain stopped, and we really did enjoy our slightly cool evening in the UNESCO World Heritage Old Town of Český Krumlov.<br />
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I loved the colors and textures of this place! The Czech Republic is such a mix of neglected and repaired buildings. There is a ton of pride and restoration in Český Krumlov...but there isn't a ton of excess money and the town went through decades of disrepair while under Soviet control.<br />
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I think this set Český Krumlov apart from other places we've visited. We go to a lot of gorgeous places that have invested massive funds into development centuries ago. We see the upkeep happening on these buildings or see ruins. It isn't often that you see a place in development. I'm glad we didn't wait to see this town/city. Next time we're here...it is likely to be a different place. Right now it seems to be part of a Bohemian fairytale.<br />
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And the Vltava river running through it just adds to the charm. It was funny to see the people on the river rafts even though it was cool and had been raining. I guess you might as well...you are likely to get wet rafting anyway.<br />
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Walking down the bricked narrow streets, we stumbled across some interesting and comical street art. It was nice that it seemed almost all contained into this one alley area and didn't desecrate any historic buildings.<br />
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I can't speak one bit of Czech (and David said it is an incredibly tricky language), but I could appreciate the signage. I really like the way the letters looked.<br />
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After a lot of wandering around, we found a dinner location for the evening.<br />
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As suggested by Martin, we ate at Satlava. We loved the ambiance of the place, and the food was delicious! We got the mixed grill for two which included a turkey breast, piece of pork, and small steak with a baked potato and potato pancake each. I gave Kris my pork for his turkey and gave him the portion of my steak I couldn't eat. The food was quite tasty and super affordable! The food, a soda, and the tip was $20!<br />
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The delicious breakfast provided by Martin at the Penzion DeLanta really helped set us up for the day. Another couple (from Canada) was in the dining area and were discussing how much they had left in Czech money. We offered to buy it from them and were able to trade for optimal exchange rate in Euro. Win win for everyone. <br />
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Our first stop were the castle/palace grounds. We were hoping to do a tour of the castle theatre, but it was closed until the next Tuesday. We just decided to look at the interesting architecture, check out the palace bears, and get some photos of Český Krumlov from the view the castle afforded.<br />
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David had been explaining to us about an outdoor stage that is used for play performances on the car drive to Český Krumlov. We wound up finding the stage and finally understanding what David meant when he was talking about how the audience seats move whenever there is a set change. Interesting theatre. The entire audience rotates to see the various scenes instead of having set changes. I'm sure it would have been a fun experience to watch Shakespeare in Czech, but the tickets were too expensive to try.<br />
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The palace has large, well-manicured gardens. Of course, all gardens are now paling in comparison to Ludwigsburg. Regardless, they were nice to wander around in. It was fun to watch all of the interesting photos and poses people take in gardens with statues.<br />
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We stumbled across the Museum of Torture Instruments, and we decided to pay the small fee to enter. It was well worth it. Apparently there are two torture museums in Český Krumlov - the Museum of Torturey and the Museum of Torture Instruments. We went to the better one. There was no kitsch and cuteness about the museum we chose.<br />
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There was a rather ominous and effective sound track, dim lighting, good displays, lots of steel and rusty equipment to impale yourself with (Kris tried), and descriptions of the displays provided by a laminated translation card we were provided upon entry. Plus, we had the entire place to ourselves. Another group didn't come until we were leaving.<br />
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Kris enjoyed himself. I was ooged out. People can be pretty demented.<br />
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Although, I imagine if you knew you could still be publicly shamed or honestly tortured for committing a crime, you might actually be really deterred from general stupidity. I think there are too many people who don't see fines and prison as a real punishment.<br />
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Death by burning in the iron bull would probably make someone think twice about killing someone? I'm too squeamish to suggest actual corporal punishment, but a little public shaming might be good for some people. <br />
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After the museum, we somehow managed to stomach eating lunch. We found a nice park bench and had our sandwiches and fruit.<br />
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Walking around town a bit, we stumbled upon some fresh Czech donuts being made. David had recommended we try some talking about how the batter is unique, so Kris and I split one. I thought it tasted like a good funnel cake but was easier to eat. <br />
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We also found the soda he recommended we try called Kofola. It tastes a bit like generic cola mixed with basil. Naturally, Kris had to try a local candy bar too.<br />
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Our back alley wandering eventually led us to find the artwork of Miroslav Paral...a local artist of odd. The artist had a little gallery with a ton of works on display. There was a bench by the river and some other items displayed by a local restaurant too.<br />
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Like most European cities, Český Krumlov has some pretty ornate churches.<br />
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They also have what was once a Jewish Synagogue and managed not to be damaged during the World War due to its use as a Hitler Youth Camp. It has been returned to the Jewish community of Český Krumlov, and they now have exhibits there. I don't know if it functions as a traditional synagogue anymore, but they did have a suka displayed.<br />
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We returned back to our room to rest up a bit before evening. We knew we wanted to stay up late and photograph Český Krumlov at night, so we had a long wait ahead of us.<br />
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Upon going to dinner (we opted to go to the same place and order the same food), we came across a benefit concert in the square. We just thought it was a free concert with local bands being sponsored by the local tv or radio station at the time. Martin told us the next morning it was a benefit concert for a sick girl in town. We stayed for a few songs from two bands. We actually really enjoyed the first band, but we didn't get there until near the end of their set.<br />
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The second band seemed to draw a larger crowd though and had people in the audience singing along. A dog was really upset with how much his owner seemed to like the music.<br />
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After dinner, the concert was going with a different band. We were able to hear the music almost the rest of the evening as we wandered around.<br />
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We watched sunset from an elusive spot that David, our driver, had said had the best photos vantage point in Český Krumlov.<br />
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Wandering around at night proved to be cool and creepy at the same time. We got some amazing shots from the castle. After leaving the main square, you hardly encountered anyone. Such a change from the touristed streets of earlier in the day. Most people mistakenly just go to Český Krumlov for a day trip.<br />
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We were able to hear the laughter and acting coming from the outdoor theatre when we were near the castle grounds. Sounded like a popular show.<br />
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Due to some fairly heavy rain, we opted not to head out to Salzburg right away and instead visited the Hallstatt salt mines.<br />
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The Obertrauner Hof held our bags after we checked out so we could explore.<br />
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We opted not to take the umbrella they offered (which was a mistake on my part), so we were pretty drenched by the time we got to the salt mines even though we walked as quickly as we could. We went up the cable cars to the top of Hallstatt. We even passed people who had gone up on a cable car well before us on the trek up the mountain.<br />
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When we reached the top, we quickly realized everyone else must have had the same idea as us about escaping the rain. We had an hour and a half wait to go inside, but it gave us a chance to dry off a bit. <br />
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The salt mines provide a coat check and some jumpsuits to protect your clothes. We looked rather stylish in them (in my estimation).<br />
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Despite being chilly, I really enjoyed the salt mine tour. Hallstatt has the oldest working salt mine in the world. They tell you about the progression of salt mining through the centuries. The present day evaporative brine system is far easier than the system used to be...not to mention cleaner. It works much like current day oil and gas mining.<br />
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Walking through the cave system, you definitely see salt. Kris, in his infinite wisdom, decided to take some directly from the wall. Yum...<br />
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The cave/tunnel system here is huge, but you get the feeling people weren't incredibly tall.<br />
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We also got to see some old mining equipment.<br />
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Some of the tour "film clips" were really well done. They had some laser light shows set to music, some actual film clips with English subtitles, and used a variety of effects to keep everything interesting.<br />
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We also got to ride two slides that the miners would use to expedite their descent into the caves. The first was a warm-up slide which Kris and I rode separately.<br />
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The second was a super long fast slide that Kris and I rode together. We were clocked as going over 30kph (or over 18mph). It was FUN!<br />
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Our tour guide was a pretty young lady that reminded me of my sister's friend Norah in appearance. She seemed to seamlessly go back from German to English. I thought the way she handled the language translations was well done. She would give smaller descriptions in each language and switched back and forth often so you were never lost too long.<br />
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We walked through a lot of the cave system, so, at the end, you get to ride a really fast and long train back to the start. It was also a lot of fun. You really have to watch your head though so you don't get clocked.<br />
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When we came out from the tour, the rain had stopped. The clouds were still looming in the air, so we had a very different view of Hallstatt than before.<br />
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We leisurely descended the salt mines snacking on some awesome chips called Pommels before realizing that we were going to miss the ferry.<br />
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We quite literally ran across Hallstatt to make it to the ferry with a minute to spare. Had we missed it, we would have had to wait an hour and a half for the next one. <br />
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We got back to the Obertrauner Hof, got our bags, and headed to the train station to catch the train to Salzburg with one easy transfer at Attnang Puchheim.<br />
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After arriving in Salzburg, we walked the 10 minutes from the station to our hotel for the evening - the Atel Hotel Lasserhof. <br />
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We got a nice room, but we'd been hoping to do laundry. Turns out they did not have a laundry facility for us to use like Orbitz advertised.<br />
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We wandered around town looking for a grocery store to buy dinner, found discounted salad mix, and made some terrible bathroom salads for dinner. First time Kris found something too spicy for him...and it's some type of lettuce in the discount Asian salad blend. It bothered his sinus cavities, but it had no impact on me. The strawberries were phenomenal though!<br />
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<i><b><u>Wednesday, June 25, 2014</u></b></i><br />
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After waking up, we partook in the free breakfast provided by the hotel. The cold food was okay, but the hot food was cold and milk was room temperature. <br />
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We stored our bags with the front desk agent and went off to explore Salzburg on foot.<br />
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I wish I could say I was more impressed with Salzburg, but it is largely just a city. I liked the market area, Mozartplatz, and Residenzplatz for people watching. <br />
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There were some talented musicians at Kapitelplatz. One was even playing an instrument I've never seen before.<br />
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One of my favorite things about Salzburg, although it only took seconds to see, were the horse baths at Kapitelplatz. It was very interesting to me to see this magnificent structure built for the purpose of wading horses through for a bath.<br />
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We did stop by the Salzburg Cathedral, St. Peter's Cemetery, St. Peter's Abbey, and Franziskanerkirche. <br />
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Kris pointed out the traditional Catholic chalk markings on the door of some buildings. The drawings reference the year, the wise men (Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar), and the cross.<br />
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We spent the majority of our time exploring the Mirabell Palace Gardens of <i>Sound of Music</i> fame. I made sure to sing "Do Re Me" in the park.<br />
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While there, we saw a small group of students putting on a play.<br />
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After Mirabell Gardens, we went to the top of the very tall Kapuzinerberg Hill to the site of the Kapuzinerkloster Monastery with good views of Salzburg. <br />
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We made sure to walk on Steingasse to see the narrow street and some street art. <br />
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We also make sure to catch the birthplace of Mozart as well as one of his old homes before it started raining on us, and we decided to head back to the hotel to grab our stuff. We had to be at the train station by 2pm to be picked up by CK Shuttle for our ride to Cesky Krumlov in the Czech Republic.<br />
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(June 25th to be continued...in another country.)<br />
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Today was a day you only dream about. Beautiful weather, clear skies, and gorgeous expansive views.<br />
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We started off the day well with a yummy breakfast at the Obertrauner Hof. The variety was good and kept well stocked by Trevor and Debbie. We filled up before heading across the street to the local grocery store for provisions to make lunch.<br />
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After packing lunch, we walked the 30 minutes through the neighborhood to the UNESCO World Heritage site of Dachstein Salzkammergut. We got to the cable cars that take you to the Ice Caves and 5 Fingers overlook, and used a discount card provided by the Obertrauner Hof. We'd been given sound advice to go to the top and 5 Fingers first in case a weather system moved in. We wound up with perfect weather, but the advice was great for avoiding crowds. Almost everyone goes to the ice caves first.<br />
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We bought all inclusive tickets and headed up the two cable cars to the top.<br />
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I don't know how to suitably explain the beauty of the views we were afforded at the top of the Dachstein mountains. Everywhere you looked - gorgeous. (Seriously please...somebody loan me some synonyms.) Our cameras were ready for the snow covered mountains, green hills, water, and clean, fresh air, but it still took my breath away.<br />
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We went on the 30 minute fairly strenuous hike to the 5 Fingers overlook stopping at the rest area to grab a different view and watch a paraglider take off.<br />
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When we got to 5 Fingers...MIND BLOWN! <br />
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This overlook is named for its odd shape. They created five different platforms for you to go out on and grab different views.<br />
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Turns out that you could see 5 Fingers from our balcony at the Obertrauner Hof and while walking around town.<br />
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One of the platforms has a really powerful viewing magnifier attached. You can operate it for free, and I was able to see the train coming into the Obertraun station, the ferry boat we took to Hallstatt, and much of the route we'd taken the day before.<br />
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Another viewing platform has a picture frame attached. It was a trick to squeeze behind the bars to get a photo on the correct side of the frame. Tests your fear of falling from high heights for sure.<br />
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I made sure to go onto each of the various platforms and took far too many photographs...none of what adequately captured what my eyes absorbed that magical day.<br />
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So worth the hike!<br />
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The walk back is easier, as most of it is back downhill. Of course, Kris took a break to play in the snow and Queetar made an appearance.<br />
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After returning to the cable car, Kris and I had the entire cable car to ourselves as we went back down a stop to go to the Ice Caves. <br />
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The Eishole Ice Cave is also quite a trek. The altitude was really getting to me by now, but I tried to be a trooper.<br />
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It was interesting to see the Eishole Cave since I'd never seen an ice cave before. The ice has grown over the years since discovery too. Need I mention it was chilly in there?<br />
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Our Eishole Cave tour was conducted in Germany and English, and ran late. We had to hightail it to the Mammut Cave for our next tour time. Kris ran ahead to stall the guide while I did my best not to lose my lunch. (I really have trouble with altitude.)<br />
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The Mammut Cave is massive in size, but it didn't offer anything I hadn't seen before. Unless you just haven't seen many caves, I'd skip this one. <br />
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Regardless, our trip up the Dachstein Mountains was beyond expectations. So lucky to have gotten to see that view on such a clear and wondrous day! So understandable why it was made an UNESCO World Heritage site.<br />
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After going down to the bottom, Kris and I walked back to the Obertrauner Hof to rest a bit. I showered while Kris worked on photos. After enjoying the balcony and some foot rest, we decided to go to dinner at the Restaurant Reba attached to our lodging. They offer a special each day of soup, salad, main, and dessert for a very reasonable 15 Euros per person. Guests at the Obertrauner Hof get a free beverage of their choice with dinner.<br />
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After inquiring what the evening meal would consist of, Kris and I both ordered the daily special. Fantastic choice! <br />
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Our soup was a yummy cabbage and potato soup with semmel roll.<br />
Then we got a fresh spring salad with a yummy dressing.<br />
The was the main course - a yummy chicken stew with hearty vegetables and a wonderful sauce. Fresh and earthy, I would happily eat this again.<br />
Dessert was a light, delectable cheesecake with fresh wild strawberries, homemade whipped cream, and a wonderful fresh raspberry sauce.<br />
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Did I mention that I would gladly eat this entire meal again? It was FABULOUS! And they even gave us ice in our glasses!<br />
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After dinner, we went wandering around Obertraun. <br />
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We took a casual stroll through the neighborhood and even stopped to play at the park. They have some awesome playground equipment. We had to play on the zipline!<br />
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Getting to Hallstatt/Obertraun by public transportation from Munich isn't difficult, but it also isn't direct.<br />
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We wanted to get the most out of our day in Hallstatt, so we caught the 9:09am U-Bahn to the Munich HBF where we caught the very nice and spacious 9:34am RailJet 63 to Salzburg. First class on this train is nice with comfy seats, a welcome bag of pretzels, and footrests at the seats.<br />
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I got a bit freaked out when, due to delays, our 10 minute connection time turned into a 2-3 minute connection time. After our train finally stopped and doors opened at the Salzburg HBF, Kris and I sprinted (quite a feat with all of our bags) down the stairs and back up different stairs to get the our IC 549 train to Attnang Puchheim. Phew - we made it, but it turned out we didn't need to run afterall. Scheduled to leave at 11:12 am, this train was also delayed due to the RailJet delay. Thinking we needed to sprint at Attnang Puchheim to find our train to Obertraun Dachstein, we were very pleasantly surprised that we just needed to walk off of our train and a few steps across to our final train to Obertraun. (This train was held too. Going to Hallstatt from the RailJet must be popular.) We were glad not to have missed any connections. It would have meant an hour wait for the next train.<br />
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After getting to Obertraun Dachstein around 1:40 pm, we walked the 5-7 minutes to the Obertrauner Hof, our home for the next two nights. We were checked in by the owner Debbie and shown to Room 17. <br />
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Our room was spacious and clean with a comfy bed and pillows and a lovely balcony with a view of the 5 Fingers viewing platform. We also had a private bathroom. Each floor has coffee/tea any time of day and a shared mini-fridge. A really nice breakfast is included in the room price.<br />
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We tried reading the bus schedule to get over to the UNESCO World Heritage town of Hallstatt and failed pretty abysmally. We opted to take the next train one stop back to the Hallstatt station and ferry across.<br />
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Talk about a nice choice. Seeing Hallstatt on that ferry boat (called the Stefanie) was outstanding! <br />
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We landed in Hallstatt and decided to do a walking tour we'd found on Big Boy Travel. We just did it in reverse.<br />
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Hallstatt was one of the stops that I had been most anticipating, and it did not disappoint. Stacked timber houses along a lakefront with gorgeous balcony boxes of flowers are a visual delight. Hallstatt is a 7,000 year old village and even older than Rome, but it is well kept and clean! You don't think about it being so old, but they have the oldest functioning salt mine in the world which attracted villagers many moons ago.<br />
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Granted, the terrain in Hallstatt isn't very flat, but it is beyond charming.<br />
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We headed uphill toward the Pfarrkirche (Catholic Church) to view the two-level picturesque and tightly packed cemetery. Every grave had a little flower garden and some kind of twisted metal grave marker. The cemetery had a great view too. The cemetery only has room for just over 100 plots, so people are actually rotated out. Over 1200 bodies have been cycled through, and, when they are removed, they are brought to the Bone House in Michael's Chapel.<br />
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The Bone House is a sight to behold. For people slightly twisted like Kris and I, it is definitely worth the small admission. The bodies exhumed from the cemetery are cleaned and left out for a few weeks until they are smooth. Since 1720, the skulls have been painted with flowers, leaves, ivy, and laurel. A few former priests have crosses with bibles painted on them. <br />
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The latest skull in the Bone House belongs to a skull exhumed in 1995. The woman still has a gold tooth attached. Fewer skulls are added today since the church has started accepting the practice of cremation.<br />
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Our next stop was up a bunch of stairs to what we thought was the overlook mentioned in the walking tour. Turns out that we didn't need to go up any stairs for our next point...we should have instead gone downstairs from the church and followed a rather flat road 300 meters. Both spots offered nice viewpoints. Kris and I certainly aren't practicing for <i>The Amazing Race</i> with this trip. We're making many mistakes.<br />
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Next stop: Marktplatz or Market Square. In 1750, this part of Hallstatt was leveled by a fire so all of the buildings in Market Square were rebuilt from stone instead of wood. Kris and I decided to indulge in our first gelato of the trip. Kiwi for him...strawberry for me. Both crisp and refreshing.<br />
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At this point, we made sure to note all of the buildings discussed in the tour, but I was just soaking in Hallstatt and going for a stroll. I was just less interested in the facts and more interested in the ambiance.<br />
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Until 1890, the only way to reach most of the homes in Hallstatt was by boat or through narrow passages. It wasn't until 1890 that the main road of was constructed.<br />
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We walked along the waterfront passing the rental Swan paddleboats and actual living swans of Hallstatt. The swans were brought to Hallstatt by Emperor Franz Josef and Empress Sisi. Sisi, like her cousin the crazy Mad King Ludwig, was obsessed with swans.<br />
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We made it back to the Obertrauner Hof before sunset and called it a night.<br />
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Neuschwanstein was the inspiration for Disney's <i>Sleeping Beauty</i> castle. The brainchild of the crazy King Ludwig II, this castle is magnificent! But before I keep throwing in adjectives to describe the wonder of this architectural masterpiece...I should talk about how we got there from Munich. <br />
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We knew we'd have to attempt to beat the hordes of tourists since this tends to be "the thing to do", and it was a Saturday to boot. We knew we needed to make an early morning of it, and we'd need to pack some food.<br />
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The night before we bought apples and stuff to make sandwiches. While Kris was showering, I made our sandwiches and washed two small apples each. We brought gallon sized ziplock bags from home, so we have kept two clean specifically for food. We grabbed some granola bars and our water bottles and headed out. Making lunch by buying semmel (or rolls), sandwich meat, cheese, and keeping the same tube of mustard with us is proving to be a pretty inexpensive way to eat.<br />
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After making a quick transfer from the U Bahn by our hotel to the main Muenchen HBF station, we caught a 6:53 am train heading toward Kempten. We got off at the Buchloe stop at 7:38 am and got on a train heading toward Fuessen at 7:49 am. At Fuessen, we crossed the road to the bus stop and got on Regional Bus #78 heading to Hohenschwangau at 9:05 am. We were in Hohenschwangau by 9:13 am. The return bus fare was 2.40 Euro per person. The rest of the ride was covered by our Eurail pass.<br />
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Once you arrive in the town, you need to buy your tickets for Neuschwanstein. You can't buy them at the castle, so don't head up the road yet. You can also visit another castle called Hohenschwangau (the same as the town) as well if you want, but we opted for Neuschwanstein solely.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Hohenschwangau Castle</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Lake in </i><i>Hohenschwangau </i></td></tr>
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Now I'd read over and over again that you need to catch a bus in the town to take you to Marienbrucke (Mary's Bridge - best views of the castle) so that you'd just have a 15 minute walk downhill instead of 40 minute walk uphill. The line for the bus was ridiculous. The line for a horse drawn carriage was also long and would still require a 15 minute walk uphill, so Kris and I hoofed it uphill for this 40 minute walk. We must be super speedy, because the hike uphill only took us around 25 minutes.<br />
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Seriously, unless you have small children or a physical reason not to walk up that hill...give yourself time to take the 40 (or less) minute walk. It's actually nice. A tad steep in some places, but a nice naturewalk nonetheless.<br />
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The views awaiting you at the top make it worthwhile. We felt rewarded for our trouble. And, honestly, we would likely have missed our tour standing in that bus line. It seems like only one bus runs, and the line was packed at 9:30 am. (I suspect entire tour groups coming to Neuschwanstein get dropped off in that line.)<br />
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While waiting for our tour to start, we soaked in the views and ate an apple. Relaxing way to spend a bit of time.<br />
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Unfortunately, you are not allowed to take photos inside of Neuschwanstein. I don't know if you could actually capture something so bold and unique in its scope anyway. (Kris did sneak one of the kitchen area.)<br />
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King Ludwig II stayed at his dream castle very little before being arrested for being criminally insane. Seriously - they declared him crazy, and he mysteriously died the next day at the age of 40-something. Nobody knew what happened...or so they say.<br />
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The second floor of Neuschwanstein was never finished, but the castle was opened to the public as a museum only 6 weeks after King Ludwig's death so it contains all of the original furnishings, paintings, and everything as it has stood since 1886! For a brief history with some photos, you could visit <a href="http://www.neuschwanstein.de/englisch/palace/history.htm" target="_blank">http://www.neuschwanstein.de/englisch/palace/history.htm</a>.<br />
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This crazy king was looking to create his fantasy retreat. Most of the entire palace was inspired by the operas of Wagner. <br />
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The palace was also quite advanced for its time. From their own website, "The rooms of the [Palace], the royal residence, were fitted with hot air central heating. Running water was available on every floor and the kitchen had both hot and cold water. The toilets had an automatic flushing system.<br />
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The king used an electric bell system to summon his servants and adjutants. On the third and fourth floors there were even telephones."<br />
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It is one remarkable piece of art disguised as castle.<br />
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The floors, doors, walls, ceilings, and furniture are carved or painted or engraved with patterns. The artwork is vivid and detailed. There is a goose theme, and these giant geese are in the rooms often having purpose you would never expect - one was a room humidifier, many are door handles, there are geese sewn into the drapery, etc.<br />
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By my standard, the rooms are a little too busy, but I am impressed with the amazing detail and true level of craftsmanship. We just don't make homes like this...not that I've ever seen. I've never seen another place like it - inside or out.<br />
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Perhaps the biggest surprise to me was the area of the house that is inspired by a Wagner opera that takes place in a grotto/cave. They actually built a few rooms to look like a cave! They are landscaped retreats - dark without being dank. King Ludwig's insanity must have been more of a type of artistic brilliance. He was an artist with an unlimited amount of money. Scary combo.<br />
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Neuschwanstein is definitely worth the trip.<br />
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After touring the castle, we walked the 15 minutes uphill to Marienbrucke (Mary's Bridge) for photos. I was scared to go on the bridge. I'm not at all afraid of heights, but there has to be a weight limit for a bridge, right? How many people can squeeze on that bridge and it remain structurally sound? It was packed with people. We pushed ourselves in and through though.<br />
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We walked back down the hill into town and passed the ticket line. I believe it was sometime around 2:30 pm, and the ticket line was swarming with people. Our wait was about 10 people. This line filled up the inside and required a ton of ropes outside. The motto being - get there early or buy reserved tickets online before you come. (You have to do that at least a full 48 hours in advance.) Just waiting to get your ticket at this time seemed like an hour wait.<br />
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We took the bus back to Fuessen, train back to Buchloe, train back to Munich HBF, and U-Bahn back to our hotel. We picked up dinner provisions from the market before trekking upstairs.<br />
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Kris cooked while we sort of followed Germany vs. Ghana in the World Cup match. It was a draw, and luckily not an incredibly long night of blaring foghorns.<br />
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So many photos to look through. We had another day with extremely great weather.<br />
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<i><b><u>Friday, June 20, 2014</u></b></i></div>
Kris has taken to checking the weather which seriously worked in our favor today. We found it would be raining most of the day, so we changed our original plans and decided to spend the afternoon in Dachau (only 30 minutes from Munich). We figured a bit of misty rain would work with the atmosphere of the place.<br />
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After a lazy morning of grocery shopping at the Tengelmann grocery next to the hotel and photo editing/blogging, we headed out to the Munich main station to head to the Dachau Concentration Camp and Memorial. We bought things to make sandwiches and brought sandwiches and apples with us on our journey.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Kris takes pleasure in the little things.</i></td></tr>
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Getting to Dachau...<br />
Instructions for getting to the Dachau Concentration Camp and Memorial are on their website <a href="http://www.kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de/directions.html" target="_blank">http://www.kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de/directions.html</a> and pretty easy to follow. We were able to take the S train using our Eurail pass, and then bought a bus ticket for 1.30 Euro per person each way. No special tour is needed.<br />
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Admission into the Dachau Concentration Camp and Memorial is free. We got the self-guided audio tour for 3.5 Euros each (a price I found worthwhile). <br />
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Talk about a somber experience! The introductory video they show is filled with graphic and matter-of-fact information. The photos and video clips - horrifying! It really puts the words and stories we've learned in school into a level of realism that took me aback. I had a lot of trouble holding it together. I did a moderate job of just having a few tears tumble without getting into sniveling. I still cannot fathom how people could have done this to others. Humans can be so kind and generous...and then there are some who are just plain monsters.<br />
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While the intro film gives you enough detail that you could honestly walk the grounds understanding what you are seeing, the audio guide had recollections of survivors. To hear them speak the horrors they experienced...I can't explain how deeply it makes you feel.<br />
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After the video, Kris and I went back to the entrance gate to truly try to take it all in. We felt we owed the victims the respect of this gesture. <br />
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"Arbeit Macht Frei" is written on the entrance...work will set you free. How far from the truth!<br />
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Seeing the living conditions at Dachau and gaining the knowledge that it was the "model" for all other concentration camps just makes me sick. The barracks were abysmally small holding over 450 people per block and intended for only 50. Over the years of existence, conditions got worse and worse.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Photo of barracks at the beginning of Dachau...before it got bad.</i></td></tr>
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The infirmary was basically a death sentence, lice and bugs ate away at people until wounds festered, and illness and starvation was prevalent. Some people would tire of the torture and try to make a break for the perimeter fence hoping to be shot to end their life.<br />
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As a special treat for some of the imprisoned, a brothel was located on site. Women from another concentration camp were sent to Dachau and forced to serve at the brothel as part of their "sentence".<br />
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Demented doctors performed cruel experiments on some of the interred - malaria, hypothermia, and other special forms of torture took the lives of many.<br />
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The crematorium was used too often. Toward Dachau's end, they couldn't keep up with the demand and just piled bodies to be buried in mass graves. Entire train cars filled with dead, or nearly dead, emaciated bodies would arrive in Dachau from other camps.<br />
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The gas chamber was a special form of cruelty. They would make the victims believe they were finally going to get a much needed shower and even went so far as to put shower heads in the room, but they would fill the room with noxious gas instead. They say the gas chamber was never used for mass execution at the Dachau Concentration Camp, but it was likely used in some regard.</div>
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Death by hanging, shooting, starvation, overworking, and/or torture were commonplace. Victims were beaten or punished for not following crazy and unreasonable rules placed on them by soldiers...one such example was the impossible expectation for how the beds must be made in the crowded barracks. <br />
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I don't know how many survived Dachau. It was open from 1933 to 1945 before some survivors were liberated. I can't imagine anyone lasted the full 12 years of operation. <br />
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I'm impressed that the survivors insisted on turning Dachau into a memorial so nobody could forget. It's illegal in Germany to say the Holocaust never happened, and they are not hiding the atrocities of the event. Some churches and monuments have been erected on the site in remembrance and tribute. <br />
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A certain type of reverence is needed to visit the Dachau Concentration Camp and Memorial. You won't find any photos of Kris and I smiling and posing during this visit. It was not, in our opinion, appropriate of the location.</div>
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After heading back to our hotel, we started some laundry. Kris got creative with our one pot and spatula, and made spinach ricotta tortellini in spinach florentine sauce. We ate it out of a coffee mug with a spoon. Quite tasty in truth...however unorthodox.<br />
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<b>Happy Birthday to my gorgeous and inspiring sister!!!</b><br />
We seem to be waking up early due to the bright morning light, so we embraced it and headed to Munich by rail fairly early from Stuttgart.<br />
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We were excited as we were set to have our first experience riding first class on an ICE train. Unfortunately, the ICE was substituted with an IC and all of first class had already been taken. Kris and I wound up both getting seats in the same 2nd class compartment, but we weren't able to sit next to each other. Regardless, we were able to find storage for our bags.<br />
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After arriving in Munich, Kris quickly figured out that we needed to take the U1 to the Gern stop (4 stops away from Munich HBF) to get to our hotel for the next three nights - the Derag Livinghotel Karl Theodore.<br />
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I had booked a room on Orbitz for a good discount for this hotel. The rooms have small kitchenettes with mini fridges and two cook burners. The rooms have an electric kettle as well. The room didn't have any plates or much silverware (just two mugs, two cups, and two spoons for coffee/tea), but we were able to get a pot and a spatula. They also provide two free waters a day.<br />
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Really, I would stay here again. The neighborhood is quiet and lovely, and the hotel is next door to a great little grocery store with excellent baked goods. They were closed upon arrival for a public holiday, but we were able to shop the next day.<br />
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After checking in, we decided to go explore Munich by following the free walking tour I found on Big Boy Travel (<a href="http://www.bigboytravel.com/europe/germany/munich/freewalkingtour" target="_blank">http://www.bigboytravel.com/europe/germany/munich/freewalkingtour</a>). Kris pulled the map up on his phone, and I pulled the descriptions up on my phone. It was a great and efficient way to take in the town. <br />
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I must say...I usually don't like big cities, but I've been pleasantly surprised by Frankfurt, Stuttgart, and Munich. While there are some people in a hurry, the towns have managed to keep a Bavarian flair to them. I would return to this area without hesitation.<br />
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While I won't explain all of the stops on the walking tour in detail, I will mention that our first stop, the Karlsplatz, was named after Elector Karl Theodor (the same as our hotel) and is where part of the old town walls of Munich once stood from 1337 to 1791.<br />
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We saw many beautiful and ornate buildings including Citizen's Hall, St. Michael's Church with an 18 foot tall Richard Strauss Fountain outside and the world's second-largest barrel-valulted roof in the world, St. Anna Church & School for Girls, and the St. Johann Nepomuk Church. <br />
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We also saw some oddities.<br />
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We really liked viewing the Sendlinger Tor, the oldest of Munich's (1318) three city wall gates that are still standing. I just loved the vines and fireplaces out in the middle of a shopping area (almost all closed due to the German holiday).<br />
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The iconic Victuals Market Munich Maypole did not disappoint. So colorful!<br />
And Kris and I would later indulge at the Viktualienmarkt by getting super tasty goulash soup (me) and bratwurstsemmel (Kris - brat with bun).<br />
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We toured inside St. Peter's Church to see the creepy jewel encrusted skeleton of St. Munditia before walking the 306 steps to the top of the St. Peter's Bell Tower. That was quite the climb, but what a view! We've been doing a lot of uphill walking.<br />
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Next up were Old Town Hall, New Town Hall, Field Marshall's Hall (from Hitler fame), and the Cathedral of Our Lady.<br />
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We happened to get to New Town Hall at the perfect time to see the 5pm 43 bell chime and show of the 28 foot Glockenspiel.<br />
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We ended up in the Hofgarten for a nice rest before heading back to our hotel via the rail system.<br />
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After a quick breakfast of museli, we set out for Ludwigsburg for the day. Our objective was simply to explore old town Ludwigsburg and enjoy the Ludwigsburg Palace (Residenzschloss) and gardens.<br />
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Ludwigsburg is a simple 15 minute train ride from Stuttgart, so Stuttgart really did make a great home base.<br />
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On our walk to the palace, we ran into the local town farmer's market. It was nice to take an absorbive look around. They had some gorgeous fresh strawberries for sale.<br />
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We made it to the Residenzschloss without too much fanfare and purchased admission into the gardens at 8 Euro per adult. We opted not to do the interior tour, although I hear it is amazing. They have an English tour at 1:30pm every day at the palace, but we were honestly too taken by the expansive gardens and gorgeous weather to spend an hour and a half inside. I really do hear it is worth it. I could see how you could easily spend a day exploring the gardens and another exploring the interior.<br />
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The Residenzschloss is Germany's largest Baroque castle, and the gardens and grounds are over 30 hectares in size. It is too hard to describe what might have been the most impressive garden grounds I've ever seen. Kris was beyond delighted - in his Kris way.<br />
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They have a fairytale garden as well with children's rides and animatronics/booths set up to retell some classic fairytales. I could tell by looking what some of the fairytales were (Hansel and Gretel, Sleeping Beauty, and Pinocchio), but I largely was lost. Almost everyone knows and speaks English here, but little is written or translated. <br />
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Luckily you don't really need to translate the gorgeous smells of florals. No fake or mutated plants here...just nature at it's finest cultivation.<br />
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We managed to find time to take a nap under a sprawling shade tree. (Well, I took a nap...Kris didn't like the bugs so he wandered more - and took photos of me napping.)<br />
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There were some cute animals too (mostly birds).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>This guy is the Joey Tribbiani of birds.</i></td></tr>
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Did I mention this place was massive?<br />
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After leaving the gardens, we went into town to see if the market was still on. It wasn't, but we did stop for a piece of yummy kuchen (cake) before heading back to Stuttgart to go to the Killesbergturm Tower.<br />
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The Killesbergturm Tower is in the midst of a large urban park and located at the highest point of the park. It was imposing and neat and afforded excellent views of Stuttgart. <br />
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Tired from the many hours of pounding the pavement, we headed back to the AirBnB. Kris made us another yummy dinner, and I edited some photos before calling it a night.<br />
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We started today by missing our alarm, and I awoke with a massive migraine. I quickly downed Excedrin Migraine with a warm Diet Coke and laid back down while Kris got ready for the day. Luckily, the caffeine, meds, and nap kicked my headache down into manageable land. We headed to the Frankfurt main station to get train reservations into Stuttgart and our sleeper train reservation from Budapest to Berlin.<br />
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We had to go to the DB Station for the reservations and click the kiosk screen to retrieve a number to wait in queue to talk to someone since our chip and signature cards don't work in the Germany rail kiosks. Sad - but the wait wasn't long and the system seems efficient. Blasted American credit cards. I can't wait until we fully have the chip and pin system.<br />
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To save money, we got the Quer-Durchs-Land-Ticket so we could travel anywhere in Germany on slow trains for the entire day. We took Regional trains from Frankfurt - Heidelberg and from Heidelberg - Stuttgart. It wasn't the fastest way to get to Stuttgart, but it saved us money. The scenery was quite nice too.<br />
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When we got to Stuttgart, we took the underground local train to the Bibliotek stop to find our AirBnB. Ingrid, the host, was super easy to communicate with and was ready to greet us upon our arrival. Our apartment was the top floor apartment of Ingrid's building and well set up to accommodate guests for a while. It had a spacious room with dining area and nice kitchen with all of the cooking utensils you could need. The bathroom was nice too and had shower and tub. We had a very pleasant stay in Stuttgart.<br />
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After checking in, we went out to explore the town despite the rain. We didn't have anything in particular in mind to do. We really just went out to explore the pedestrian area of Stuttgart (Konigstrasse) and Palace Square (Schlossplatz). We also stopped at a Rewe grocery store to buy stuff to make dinner and our caffeine provisions.<br />
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We didn't just have to watch out for the rain though...Stuttgart had these trees with raining death balls.<br />
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Kris, ever the lover of local flavor, didn't pay very close attention whenever he bought what he thought was a local soda. Turns out it was a non-alcoholic beer. He's picked a winner two days in a row now...green sauce and non-alcoholic beer! Makes me laugh so darn hard!<br />
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At least the dinner he made was really rather tasty!<br />
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We found this dehydrated yogurt in one of the cabinets. Odd...to each their own I suppose?</div>
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After a grueling amount of travel <br />
~drive to Houston<br />
~fly from Houston to Chicago<br />
~long layover and flight delay<br />
~fly from Chicago to Dublin<br />
~long layover<br />
~fly from Dublin to Frankfurt<br />
~train from Frankfurt airport to Frankfurt central<br />
~schlep with massive bags to ibis Frankfurt Central<br />
we finally made it to Frankfurt.<br />
Naps and showers were necessary before we could go explore Frankfurt.<br />
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We walked from our nicely located ibis Frankfurt Centrum hotel (that thankfully had air conditioning and wifi despite it's small European sized room), and went exploring the city. Frankfurt has a big city vibe, but it has some small pockets of really nice landscaping.<br />
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We quite enjoyed our walk to the Old Town.<br />
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The central part of the town felt exactly as I picture a Bavarian town square...and it even had a band playing! <br />
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We left the Old Town and started exploring the waterfront area. There are lovely sprawling parks and grassy areas where people congregate. We saw picnics and families and odd looking ducks. I also saw a cute little swan family.<br />
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Along our route, we kept hearing crazy horns blaring and people shouting. It took us a while to realize that Germany was playing in the World Cup. It was pure crazy celebration. Luckily Kris caught a small piece of it on video.<br />
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People were waving flags and hanging out of their cars. The vast majority of people on the streets had Germany flags painted on their cheeks. We are glad Germany won. These people might have a riot if they lost.<br />
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We continued on our jaunt to "the home of the original frankfurter" circa 1886 - Klaane Sachschauser. Kris ordered what he thought was a frankfurter (aka hot dog) in green sauce...turns out it was Frankfurter green sauce with four half eggs. No meat. Yum! There are three things on the menu that say "Frankfurter" but none of them have sausage. The green sauce is rather complicated to make, but it just tasted like dill to me. It might make a really great dip, but eating a plate of green sauce did not look like fun.<br />
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We had a truly lovely nighttime stroll back to our hotel enjoying the sunset over the riverfront.<br />
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Moral of this story...a company like Hertz is reputable. If you aren't happy about something happening with a reputable company, try a different customer service agent or reach out to their social media/marketing team. Respectable things can happen.<br />
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<b>The old story now resolved -</b><br />
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Every year I look forward to the amazing deals you can get on travel, clothes, and electronics on Memorial Day, Labor Day, and Black Friday. I scour the internet trying to get the best possible rates for my travels, and the rates are never better, it seems, than on these holidays. <br />
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My husband and I are going to Europe soon. We had our basic itinerary booked and purchased Eurail passes for the majority of our trip, but Sweden and Norway are on my major wish list and it seems best to do them by car.<br />
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Enter Memorial Day Weekend. I had my booking fingers ready. Hotels/B&Bs and car rental were on the To Do list as were special travel clothes and shoes I'd been eyeing. We pull up Kayak, do a cursory look at the various rental cars, see Hertz on the list, and decide we are happy with the rate that we assume is a Memorial Day sale they are offering. It's Hertz, so we're happy. They are a reputable company, right?<br />
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We go to Hertz.com and book our guaranteed rate. We get our confirmation code and everything emailed to us. Satisfied, I continue on my Memorial Day weekend booking spree. Now that our car plans are set, we can book everything else.<br />
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Fast forward 6 days. Tons of other (non-refundable) plans have been made. I get an email from Hertz saying there has been a mistake in their booking system, and we have gotten the wrong rate. They will be changing the rate or cancelling our reservation. <br />
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The new rate is massively larger than the guaranteed rate we were given. We had a rate of 500 SEK a week. Now we get 300 SEK a day?!? I reply citing their Terms & Conditions. Rates only change if the <i>customer </i>changes the reservation in some way. We did not do so. I ask what is the point of a guaranteed rate if it is subject to change at any time?<br />
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Fast forward two more days, and I get another reply. Apparently the mistake was a data processing error outside of their control, and,<b><i> if the rate had been correct, they would have guaranteed it.</i></b> (Seriously, read the email reply.)<br />
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I respectfully disagree that it was a data processing error out of Hertz’s control. Someone employed by the organization made that mistake. They should honor their mistake. How many airlines recently have honored their mistake fares? It's just good business to honor a guaranteed rate. (Plus I legitimately booked it out of good faith. I just honestly thought it was a great sale, and I hadn't looked at rental car prices originating out of Sweden at any point for this trip other than this weekend.)<br />
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And for them to say that <b><i>if the rate had been correct it would have been guaranteed </i></b>is ludicrous! That means any rate you book on any given date can be changed by Hertz if they want to call it an error? <br />
Again I ask...what good is a guaranteed rate if there is no guarantee? How is a customer supposed to know if a rate is correct or not?<br />
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As for this so called compensation of "the best rate we can offer for this reservation"...well, I can find that same rate for Buy It Now without a coupon code on their website right now. Some deal! <br />
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Our reservation was supposed to be around $325 total. Now it's $955! Are we really supposed to be okay with this???<br />
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How can rental car companies get away with this? <b><i>What good is a Hertz guaranteed rate if they are allowed to change it on you? </i></b><br />
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I really hope Hertz makes good on this reservation. I really really do. They still have time, and someone out there has to be able to do something, right?<br />
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Stay tuned...<br />
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Quirky<br />
Clothesline<br />
Ziplock bags<br />
Grocery sacks<br />
Dave's Been Here Toiletry Kit<br />
Extra towel<br />
Washclothes<br />
Extension Cord/Surge Protector<br />
HikPro<br />
Bottle Bandit Carabiner Clip<br />
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<b><i>Glad we bought:</i></b><br />
$14 space heater (also can just act as a fan)<br />
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<b><i>Wish I'd brought:</i></b><br />
Bathrobe<br />
Hair towel<br />
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<b><i>Kris wishes he'd left behind:</i></b><br />
Snorkel<br />
Water shoes<br />
Extra jacket<br />
Insect repellent<br />
Hiking hat<br />
<br />Kristy McCoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04558285386414038369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6746436977228993100.post-32944328166944729292013-12-19T22:29:00.002-06:002013-12-19T22:29:39.782-06:00Australian Adventure (July 22 - 23, 2013)<b>40 Days Down Under (Day 39 & 40)</b><br />
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<u><i><b>Monday, July 22, 2013</b></i></u><br />
Happy Birthday Mom!<br />
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Whilst driving through Australia, we saw these giant ant mounts everywhere. We finally stopped to photograph one today. Naturally, Kris also had to poke this with a stick.<br />
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We made it to the Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse and saw where the Indian and Southern Ocean meet. Kris was sorely tempted to go for a swim so he could be in two oceans at once. Luckily, good sense beat his sense of misadventure this time.<br />
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We grabbed a quick meat pie lunch from the Augusta Bakery before heading out on Caves Road.<br />
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While driving along Caves Road, you can't miss the utterly magnificent Karri Forest (a tall open forest of Eucalyptus diversicolor, one of the tallest hardwoods in the world). It is truly breathtaking.<br />
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Caves Road led to Lake Cave where we were able to tour a magnificent cave with a pretty remarkable suspended table. Our tour guide was Karen. She really was a great tour guide, but there were so many darn stairs!<br />
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After the cave, we visited and viewed the longest timber jetty in Australia at Busselton (1.7km long) but the underwater observatory was closed.<br />
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Our last campervan overnight was at Bunbury Glade Caravan Park. They had an impressive book exchange.<br />
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<b><i><u>Tuesday - July 23 - 40 Days Down Under (Day 40)</u></i></b><br />
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We woke up and gave away trusty heater and extra blanket. <br />
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It was incredibly windy, but we still saw a few wild dolphins surfing and fishing at Koombana Bay<br />
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While on the road, I finished <i>Beautiful Chaos</i> by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. I found it to be very sad.<br />
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We checked into our last night's lodging, an AirBnB in a suburb of Perth. It was a separated area of a person's home. Very nice.<br />
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After dropping off our stuff, we explored Rockingham before returning the GoCampervan. It was a very windy day on the coast.<br />
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When we got to the GoCamper offices, we were in for a fun surprise... the GoCampervan people were out of the office and left no instructions on what to do. I had to call from the vet office next door.<br />
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After reaching them, we were told to leave the van locked and drop the keys in the slot. Scary!<br />
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While in downtown Perth, we had our final dinner at Nando's. Kris got spicy paella.</div>
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We enjoyed Perth, but it started to rain. We hopped on the train and walked back to our AirBnB.<br />
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There was little sleep for the weary that night, as we had to repack and had a 5am flight. <br />
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One heck of a vacation!<br />
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<img src="http://www.spatter.net/blogfiles/signature-blog-kristy.png" style="background: transparent; border: none;" />Kristy McCoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04558285386414038369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6746436977228993100.post-75086751578095145112013-10-06T14:57:00.002-05:002013-10-06T14:57:58.000-05:00Australian Adventure (July 21, 2013)<b>40 Days Down Under (Day 38)</b><br />
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<u><i><b>Sunday, July 21, 2013</b></i></u><br />
We started our 38th day in Albany and headed to Torndirrup National Park. Torndirrup has many gorgeous spots, and a road that seems to invite driving off a cliff.<br />
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Our first stops were Salmon Holes, Isthmus Bay, and Stony Hill.<br />
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Our last stops in Torndirrup were Natural Bridge and The Gap.<br />
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We left Albany for a scenic drive to Denmark. Our main purpose of going to Denmark was for a stop at the award winning <a href="http://denmarkbakery.com.au/" target="_blank">Denmark Bakery</a>. I got a chicken & leek pie and yummy gourmet carrot cake. (Don't think I'd ever had a leek before, but the pie was tasty. It was hearty and earthy.) Kris got a jungle thai chicken pie, a chili con carne pie, and a sausage roll.<br />
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After a scrumptious lunch, we headed to William Bay National Park to view Green's Pool. When the temperatures are warmer, it seems like Green's Pool would be a good place to swim. The waters were incredibly calm.<br />
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However, our main attraction of the day waited for us in Walpole. The Valley of the Giants Treetop Walk is a huge attraction located between Denmark and Walpole. The Valley of the Giants Treetop Walk really has two components - the treetop walk and the Ancient Empire Boardwalk.<br />
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The main draw is the treetop walk - an incredible 600 meter (656 yard) walk on metal swinging platforms that rise to 131 feet above the forest floor and places you right in the heart of the Karri and Tingle tree canopies. <br />
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While this afforded an incredible view, it completely freaked me out that while we were making our way up through the flourishing forest we could feel the walkway moving beneath us. <br />
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(The people who designed the walkway wanted visitors to feel like they were truly part of the forest and moving naturally along with the gently swinging branches, so the steel spans that make up the walkway were specifically designed to sway slightly with movement.) Of course, the more people on the walkway at once - the more sway. The larger the people on the walkway - the more sway. And, even though the rules specifically stated how many people could be on certain sections of the walkway at one time, people don't read and the rule breaking completely messed with my mind.<br />
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The second part of the park, the Ancient Empire Boardwalk, is named after the grove of archaic Tingle trees that help make up the 'Valley of the Giants'. There is a timber boardwalk that ambles its way both around and through some of the largest trees and thickest vegetation located in the southwestern section of Western Australia. Some of the tingle trees measure up to 49 feet in perimeter at their base, and some of the ancient trees have naturally hollowed out trunks, which allowed us to walk right through the middle of them. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Knot on the side of one of the trees. The guy whose home we visited in White Cliffs uses these knots to make furniture.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>I call this one The Lorax.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Wild mushrooms I spotted underneath the boardwalk. We called them "Over Easy".</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Fallen beauty</i></td></tr>
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We hadn't gotten in enough climbing, so our next stop was to the Diamond Tree Lookout. At the top of Diamond Tree, a 170 foot tall Karri tree, is the only wooden treetop tower in the world. It is still used as an integral part of the fire management and spotting program in Western Australia. Visitors are allowed to climb the metal spoke system in the tree to go to the platform at the top. Kris and I never intended to climb to the top, but we had to see the system for ourselves and test out the sturdiness of the spokes. It was far sturdier than I expected.<br />
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While there, we met up with two locals. They climb the tree as a right-of-passage. The young man had already climbed it four times successfully. The young lady was in flip flops - not exactly friendly footwear for the task. The locals like to come down to Diamond Tree just to watch tourists try to climb the tree. It's entertaining.<br />
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We stayed overnight at the Manjimup Central Caravan Park & Deli. While the town was tiny and unassuming, the park was impeccably clean with many shower stalls. You get to pick your own spot too.<span id="goog_1569597680"></span><br />
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While at the park, I finished <i>Beautiful Darkness</i> by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl.<br />
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<img src="http://www.spatter.net/blogfiles/signature-blog-kristy.png" style="background: transparent; border: none;" />Kristy McCoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04558285386414038369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6746436977228993100.post-55584466660717018732013-10-05T22:13:00.000-05:002013-10-06T12:21:01.397-05:00Australian Adventure (July 20, 2013)<b>40 Days Down Under (Day 37)</b><br />
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<u><i><b>Saturday, July 20, 2013</b></i></u><br />
Out in the middle of flatness exists a place called Wave Rock. This remarkable rock is one of Australia's most famous landforms, a giant surf wave of multicolored granite about to crash onto the bush below. The "wave" is about 46 ft high and around 360 ft long. It forms the north side of a solitary hill which is known as Hyden Rock.<br />
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A wall lies above Wave Rock and collects and funnels rainwater to a storage dam. Kris and I marveled at the swosh of the giant wave from below, laughed at the awesomely outfitted ladies on a road trip in snuggie-style jumpsuits, and climbed on the top of the wave.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Kris enjoys the view while I enjoy looking at the ladies in the Snuggie jumpsuits.</i></td></tr>
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A hop, skip and jump away is another awesome rock formation called the Hippos Yawn. When we got there, we ran into the pink ladies again.<br />
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My original plan had us scheduled to drive from Hyden to Esperance, but the weather just wasn't looking like it would cooperate in Esperance. We amended our route and headed for a decently long drive to Albany via the Stirling Range.<br />
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Along the way, we found an odd abandoned truck. (Seriously - who thought that was a good place to take a truck?) We also saw the beautiful Stirling Range and a massive number of adorable baby lambs.<br />
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Once in Albany, we stopped at Dog Rock. Rocks were definitely the theme of the day.<br />
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After dog rock, we went to Middleton Beach to look for some sea glass for my friend Britney. No sea glass, but we did find a motherlode of washed up jellyfish (moon jellies I think). Naturally Kris had to poke one with a stick.<br />
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Our final sightseeing spots of the day were found at the top of Mt. Clarence and Mt. Melville. They offered some phenomenal views of Albany.<br />
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We spent the evening at the Albany Big4 Gardens Holiday Resort which had a wonderful book exchange and free wifi.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/111315919935958681436/Aussie2013Part1?authkey=Gv1sRgCMmzhcGU1Y_7xAE#5926201219251143426" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN0MKdqBrcdCiFxzUyT5BkTPqUhDNhff8GuYoz1jdthAJcfbfVdz4keOHefuOhjqB3I-GViRYwVPyozgoh9e-5P2pq66szLE_RGdEGlwMRQtXHgfZ9D6-MC6C0DN6XR8PYsj2bjcDaVL7B/s400/1379799377.816516.jpg" style="margin: 5px;" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Check out this book cover for a book I found in the book exchange.</i></td></tr>
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<img src="http://www.spatter.net/blogfiles/signature-blog-kristy.png" style="border: none;" />Kristy McCoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04558285386414038369noreply@blogger.com0