As I mentioned in the Alkmaar post , we spent 4 nights in Leiden over the Memorial Day weekend. Our second full day there was spent making another side trip, this time to three UNESCO World Heritage Site locations. Although there are 10 UNESCO sites listed for the Netherlands as […]
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The first German building placed on the UNESCO World Heritage site was the Aachen Cathedral in, of course, the city of Aachen. Aachen is about a 2.5 hour drive from us, so rather than get up at the crack of dawn for a day trip that would involve a 5-hour […]
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Madrid, Spain I had 4 days off for the Presidents’ Day weekend in February and thought it might be nice to take that opportunity to visit Madrid. Sean booked an apartment that was pretty central. The downside to renting apartments is that you don’t get breakfast or any other meals […]
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For some reason, Florence had not been at the top of my list of places to visit in Italy. It was on the list, but it just wasn’t at the top. That changed after my friend Vicki picked Dan Brown’s book Inferno for our book club. Although the book has […]
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Lorsch & Maulbronn UNESCO Sites, DE After we visited Amiens, France a couple of weeks ago and realized that the cathedral there is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, I went on the UNESCO website to see which other sites I had visited. Turns out I’ve been to about 50 of […]
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Amiens, France is another place I’d wanted to visit for a long time after reading about it a couple of years ago. It’s about 75 miles away from Paris and was a 5-hour drive for us. We visited there the first weekend in January. We left Thursday night after work […]
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Sean I and visited Cyprus for a week in November. This is the first time in I don’t know how long that we’ve spent 7 nights in one location on vacation. Normally we do extended weekends or, if we go away for a week, we visit at least 2 locations. […]
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The weekend of October 25th we made a trip to Berchtesgaden, Germany. We left home at about 9:30 Friday morning and arrived at the hotel to check in at about 3:00 p.m. It’s about a 5-hour drive, excluding stops, so it’s a bit of a long trip for just 2 […]
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On our first day of our trip to Bastogne, we had run across a couple of signs for a Historical Route. One the second day, we decided to drive the route somewhat in order to visit all 15 sites. It was a little difficult because there is no printed map […]
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Columbus Day weekend was a 4-day weekend for me and we spent it exploring Bastogne, Belgium and the surrounding area. This was the first photo I took on the trip and I had to include it because I’d never seen anything like this before, but maybe I’m living a sheltered […]
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