From Alsace to Bavaria and the Danube
Bonjour,
Wow, we’ve had a very busy few days!
We enjoyed a quick day trip to Baume les Domes, home to Bernie’s other cousins, Jean-Paul and Marie Josée who are now in their golden years. As always, we had a special time and fantastic lunch with them and their daughter Muriel. Josée makes her own marvelous fois gras and that was the start to our delicious lunch. Jean-Paul is dealing with some health issues which made this trip even more special. Over the years, we have shared great memories together.
Our time in Soultz came to an end on Friday morning with Pierre and Laurie who graciously agreed to drive us into Germany to link up with our riverboat cruise near Nuremberg. We left at 8am and arrived in Wurtzburg about noon where we had lunch and took in the scenic town. Here are a few pictures. The churches were everywhere, the weather was gorgeous, and our time was short. I’m afraid I didn’t do a great job getting the names of everything, but hopefully you can get a little taste of the area.
Sorry, the rest of the pics would not load.
After some GPS confusion, we arrived at our riverboat around 5pm just as the bus with the rest of the Huntsville travelers was arriving. How can we ever thank Pierre and Laurie for their kindness. Our favorite phrase together is “C’est complique” or “It’s complicated.” This is pretty much the signature byline for getting by in France. It produces many laughs between us. L’anne prochaine…next year!
Our first day on the cruise found us in Nuremburg, a city that was 90% destroyed in WWII but rebuilt by the Marshall Plan. Then today we are in Regensburg, a city that was not touched in the war. Bernie has taken 500 pictures, but I’m afraid that I cannot share them as the internet is pitifully weak and SLOW on the riverboat. It has taken two days to get this blog to load.
We are lucky so far with beautiful weather, delicious food, and a gorgeous boat. Unfortunately, two couples in our Burritt group have yet to receive their luggage and went to the captain’s dinner last night in their bath robes!
This may be it for a while as far as blogging is concerned unless our internet situation improves drastically.
Happy Memorial Day weekend!
L & B
May 29, 2016 @ 3:45 pm
Fun for you and Bernie to meet up with Huntsville folks. We’re home from the beach. I came back a day earlier than Lee and stopped in B’ham to have lunch with an old friend whom I dearly love. In fact, her children are our godchildren. Anyway, we keep meaning to meet at maybe Cullman and never do so this was a nice spur of-the-moment kind of thing. The cats are very welcoming. Keep having fun.
May 29, 2016 @ 5:12 pm
Don’t worry. You can only do what the Internet will let you. Hope to see some cruise pics, tho.
May 30, 2016 @ 2:37 am
Glad you met the Huntsville group. Nothing is more frustrating than no luggage. Looking forward to Bernie’s photos of the beautiful Danube.
May 30, 2016 @ 11:21 am
The “Golden Years” comment caught us off guard. I asked Judy, “At what agent do you enter your golden years?” I was thinking “old folks,” 80’s, maybe even 90’s.” She wasn’t the sure so we looked it up–“in retirement, usually after 65.” I was absolutely shocked; been there for four years now and didn’t even know it. Oh well, it is what it is, and it certainly is complicated!
May 30, 2016 @ 1:48 pm
Bernie’s cousins are in their late 80’s and I was trying to say that euphemistically!
May 30, 2016 @ 9:02 pm
Bernie’s cousins seem like such smart, lovely, charming people. How fortunate for you to be able to continue your relationship with them. Wow, 500 pictures, that’s quite a treasure trove of memories!
The Huntsville couple who came to dinner on the ship in their bathrobes will be a great and humorous story to tell for some time to come!
May 31, 2016 @ 9:14 pm
Linda: Bernie’s cousins set a real nice table. Especially the glassware, which I admittedly don’t know the uses for all the glasses. Pass along our thanks and that we hope their health issues improve quickly.