What We've Been Doing Lately...

SUMMER 2001
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We decided to do something different. We joined Jon's brother (Howie) and two good friends (Bill and Sandy Flank) and spent 20 days in Europe. First we flew to PRAGUE in the Czech Republic...
Prague Vltava River

We spent three days exploring Prague. It is a beautiful, clean city with many, many interesting sights. It is known as the "City of a Hundred Spires" and we toured the cathedral, the castle and just walked the streets...
Prague Prague square Charles Bridge- a walking bridge Inside Prague castle

From Prague we took a tour bus across into Germany where we met up with the tour boat (the M.S. Heinrich Heine) on the Danube-Main Canal at the town of Dietfort. The boat was 300 feet long and 35 feet wide. It held 110 passengers and was really a floating hotel. It was constructed so that the upper deck area could be lowered so the craft could pass under some of the low bridges over the Danube River. We spent the next seven days living on the boat cruising down the Danube stopping at towns and cities along the way...
Danube Riverboats M.S. Heinrich Heine


NUREMBURG (Germany)
Nuremburg is a modern city with a medieval center surrounded by 13th century walls...
Nuremburg Old Town


WWII court building Nuremburg castle


KELHEIM (Germany)
We visited the Weltenburg Abbey, Bavaria's oldest church (the monks have been making beer there since 1050!) and took a side trip through the Danube Gorge with its 400-foot-high cliffs... Weltenburg Abbey Weltenberg Abbey


Danube Gorge Danube Gorge

Danube Gorge

REGENSBURG (Germany)
After a city tour we wandered through one of Europe's best preserved medieval cities... Regensburg 700 year old bridge


St. Peter's Cathedral Walls of a Roman fort


PASSAU (Germany)
Passau is a picturesque border town (Germany,Austria) where three rivers come together: the Inn, the Danube and the much smaller Ilz... Passau Passau


St. Stephen's Cathedral the Inn and the Danube coming together, two strong rivers


MELK (Austria)
We visited a 900 year old Benedictine Abbey which overlooks the town... a room in the abbey 900 year old Benedictine abbey


us lamberts the abbey's courtyard


The Danube is a swiftly flowing river flowing from the mountains of Western Europe to the Black Sea. It is used by a great many barges and tour boats. As our boat motored downstream we passed through 16 locks, four countries (Germany, Austria, Romainia, Hungary) and were treated to many beautiful sights... Danube sights cruising down the Danube


one of the locks on the Danube Danube vistas

Danube sights


VIENNA(Austria)
The capital of Austria is a metropolis blending the old and the new. We visited the Opera House and strolled down the Kartnerstrasse (the pedestrian shopping area in the city center) and St. Stephen's Cathedral... the king's apartments at the inner city castle coming into sight of Vienna on the Danube


walking along the Kartnerstrasse- St. Stephen's Cathedral on the right part of a fountain sculpture in downtown Vienna


BUDAPEST (Hungary)
The capital of Hungary, it consists of two distinct parts located on either side of the Danube - Buda and Pest. Buda has many medieval structures and cobblestone streets, Pest is more modern and commercial... on the walls surrounding the castle- Buda the castle in Buda, overlooking the Danube


an indoor shopping market- Pest Budapest pedestrian walk


Budapest- Buda side a memorial to WWII dead at the Budapest synagogue


building- Pest taking a break- Pest


From Budapest Howie and we flew to Munich and on to Nice in the south of France. Some good friends allowed us to use their house in the small village of Valbonne located in the Cote d'Azur, near Cannes and Nice...

VALBONNE (France)
Valbonne is a medieval hilltop town located about 15 kilometers (8 miles) from the Mediterranean Sea. It is a charming place of narrow lanes and a central square situated in the Maritime Alps, a region of mountains and valleys... relaxing in the pool
The Kester's home


streets of Valbonne streets of Valbonne


NICE (France)
Nice is the largest of the Cote d'Azur cities. With a beach that stretches the length of Nice Bay, several museums, Roman ruins, a cosmopalitan population and top-notch shopping the city is always a place to visit... the beach
Nice and the Mediterranean seen from the Maritime Alps


Nice at night

We spent a day driving along the Mediterranean coast... the Mediterranean Sea
looking across the bay at Cannes


We also drove up into the Maritime Alps... Roman aquaduct
Gourdon- a medieval town


nice place for a restaurant looking towards the Mediterranean

From Nice we travelled to England to visit with old friends and travel about the countryside...

LONDON (England)
London is the capital of the United Kingdom. A wondrous place of culture, shopping and people from all over the world. We visited with good friends... Barry and Greta Kester. They loaned us their beautiful home in Valbonne.

Vivian Kent Simon Kent

and wandered through the narrow streets of central London... central London

A day in the Cotswold area of England...

OXFORD
An ancient city, settlements date prior to Roman times. It is the home of the oldest University in the United Kingdom... looking into one of the university's colleges the look of Oxford

STOWE-ON-WOLD
A small village in the middle of the Cotswolds... the look of a Cotswold town in the Cotswolds

the look of the Cotswolds

and then we came home.

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