Auf Wiedersehen, meine Herren.
 

I'm flying out tonight with my wife and youngest son to visit our oldest son in Germany for 3 weeks. We're spending 2 days in Iceland on the way and plan to make a series of 3-4 day trips out of our home base in Wiesbaden.

On the itinerary: the Black Forest, Alsace, Prague, Southern Bavaria, the Rhein/Mosel Valleys, the Ardennes, Brugges and Amsterdam.

We return on July 6. I'll be thinking about you schlubs.;)

Sounds wonderful!

Better hurry though - I hear Amsterdam is changing their laws, tourists will no longer be able to, um, partake: residents only ;)

Pete

The nerve of those tolerant Dutch. I can still take my wife for a stroll through the Red Light district though.:eek:

Sounds like a great trip. Post photos.

ROTFLMAO! That'll win big points :D

Pete

Safe trip and enjoy yourselves.

Very Cool.. Relax -- we'll save your spot...

And DRIVE carefully.. If you do.. I realized that after 5 or 6 trips to Europe that Perhaps I ought to buy a Drivers handbook in the local bookstore. You'd be amazed at what all those squiggly lines mean!!!

Not to worry. I had a Porsche for the 8 years I lived there. It'll be a downgrade to drive my son's BMW 325i. ;)

Be careful stepping over all of the dead bodies lining the streets, left there by those European Soshialist healthcare systems.:p

Ansonsten, genießen Sie Ihre Reise. Wünschte, ich wäre mit dir.:)

Dave

It is even more fun in England driving on the left.:D

Europeans are OK as long as you remember that the left lane is for passing.

Danke vielmals (or as silly Americans used to say "Donkey Fieldmouse.")

Have a great trip!

Drink a brew or two for me. Enjoy the beauty that you are planning to see. I would imagine that it is going to be good to get to spend a little time with your son as well. Are you going to let him take his little brother our for a night on the town?:cool:

BTW, I've heard that they have this new-fangled internet over there too.

Regards,

D-Ray

Wow, what a great vacation! :)


Carl

A quick hello from Reykjavik, Iceland. We got here at 0620 and drove around the crazy looking volcanic countryside - awesome stuff, similar in some ways to Yellowstone. More later.

Are you taking pictures?

Dave

We tidy up our dead bodies thank you very much, we don't vote them into office. Besides which they're mostly not dead, just sleeping off the days consumption of white cider and Buckfast.

Lots of pictures. Today we arrived in Prague after spending the weekend in the Black Forest and the Alsace. Prague is truly an awesome place, though overrun with tourists almost as bad as Venice or Florence.

download a few pics already!

Damn...





:D

Sounds wonderful!

Pete

Really. Why does he think I asked? So, he could taunt us with vague text?

Dave

it's just how he rolls, keep them in suspense :D

Marketing genius.:)

exactly

keeping a tight distribution keeps demand high

Must be having a ball. Haven't heard from him in a while.

Dave

Hey, gents. Still goofing off with the best of them. Just spent 5 days in Munich, Garmisch, and Southern Bavaria. We hit the 3 biggest beer gardens in Munich over a couple of day period (the largest of them seated 8,000 people) along with all of the great sights of southern Bavaria (Neuschwanstein, Linderhof, Wieskirche, Kloster Ettal).

Today, we drove along the Mosel and Rhein river valleys and tomorrow we're off to Fulda to visit some old buddies and take a pilgrimage to a monastery that brews, according to some, the best beer in the world.

Saturday morning we're off to the Ardennes in Belgium, then on to Brugges and Amsterdam. Back to DC on Wednesday night. Drat.

Awesome! Glad to see y'all are enjoying it!

Dave

What a great trip!

Pete

Where's the pics? Did he return yet?

I got home late last night and will probably spend the weekend going over approx. 1,000 pictures. I'll post a few choice morsels early next week. I could probably use up Grumpy's storage space just posting pics of beer drinking at awesome locations (3 monastaries, 3 Munich beer gardens, Prague ....).

Welcome home!

Welcome to budweiserland :D

Pete

Welcome back! I missed your relevant links to articles.

Willkommen zurück! Bilder, bitte?

Dave