Just got back from a 45 minute trip to Romainmôtier, an abbey in a monastic village at the base of the Jura mountains. It’s a little below freezing but as clear as can be. Alps are across the lake, though they seem much closer, while the Jura mountains ring our side of the water.
There was [...]
This is another way families kept the dead in the ground in Edinburgh during those difficult days in the 1800’s. Imagine having the iron casket within the tomb and the iron fence (mortsafes) around the tomb. Makes me feel comfy.
Some tourism pushes the haunted, the dark and the scary stories of the burgh’s past with [...]
Three weeks ago, Wife, Daughter, Daughter’s Friend (girl) and I spent 4 days in Edinburgh, Scotland. It’s been our family tradition to “discover†a European city during the October holidays. Since Son 1 was in university and Son 2 in Marseilles, Daughter got to bring a buddy.
We love museums, especially free ones. In the [...]
Dad, Sons 1 and 2, and I have all read a stack of books about WWII. And with that knowledge, you walk on the sands and see through the mind’s eye the landing craft dumping their human cargo onto the beach. And man, these beaches are deep with hundreds of feet to the embankment. You [...]
The Germans had fortified the entire Normandy coast with heaven weaponry and machine guns. Most of the heavy canon were not knocked out by air, but by sea (the battleship Arkansas and two French ships took out these canons after a day-long battle) or by ground troops (think Pointe du Hoc).
At Colleville, the French have [...]
Daughter and Son 2 caught up with us after lunch at the Peace Museum. They’d just been to the temporary exhibit about the Hitler Youth. Son 2 told us how teenagers had massacred inhabitants of a Normandy village after the resistance had derailed a train those same youth were on. It took the German Army [...]
We just put the parents on the plane in Zurich this morning. The vacation turned into a blog (and email) holiday too, which wasn’t intended. Thanks for dropping by to the same old post.
We spent most of our time in Switzerland except for the 5 day trip to Normandy. The region of Basse Normandie [...]
The parents are here and we left for Normandy this morning. Dad has always wanted to see the landing beaches. So I’ll be out of the blogging world till at least Friday.
Thanks for stopping by… and see you on Friday.
The woman who bore me and her husband (who happens to be my dad) arrived safely in Zurich on the overnight flight from Dallas. They are doing much better than the last time they came (in 1998). That time, mom’s first words were: I’m never doing that again!
But they did.
On the way back to Lausanne, [...]
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