thoughts, tales and travels
This morning’s city walk was delightful – Bruges did not seem very crowded for a medieval European city. The rain stayed away; the city tour guide was amusing. From the 13th to the 15th centuries, Bruges was the most important trading center of northern Europe, based largely on its thriving...
We arrived safely in Brussels—no flight incidents. We were exhausted of course. After the drive to Bruges we checked in to the elegant hotel Cassleberg and slept all afternoon. Our hotel was elegant, comfortable, and conveniently located near Burg Square and Markt Square. We attended our welcome drink and briefing...
I’ve been working on my notes and photos from our fall trip, a dream cruise from Antwerp, Belgium, to Basil, Switzerland, with extra time in Bruges, Belgium at the beginning and Luzerne, Switzerland at the end. I’ll be posting these over the next week or so. September 23: Here we...
This past fall, I finally got to see the pretty little European country where Bill worked for Dupont decades ago, before we met. It was an outstanding day of our fall cruise.
As much as I like beer and chocolate, I like history even more. In Bruges, I hope to visit St. John’s the oldest existing hospital (12th century) in Europe. The whole medieval city center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The beer from their biggest brewery is piped underground to...
We’re in Colorado, enjoying some beautiful late-season snow squalls. There was an inch and a half on the ground when we woke up this morning. We headed out to meet Bill’s son John and grandson Charlie at the playground. We used the snow mounded on the slide to make snowballs...
Visiting Marianne in Boulder. The brilliant light, blue sky, and rosy clouds at sunset are an invigorating change from the gloom of an Oregon winter.
Most of the day to spend in LA? The Getty Center seemed the perfect choice, only 11 miles from the LA airport, where we would depart in the evening for Vietnam. We had a leisurely breakfast, then caught an Uber. It was a beautiful day, a little chilly, but the...
With our trip to Vietnam and Cambodia less than a month away, I am thinking about all that the country of Vietnam has meant to those of us who came of age during the Vietnam War. I have mixed feelings: guilty sympathy for the Vietnamese people combined with a second-hand,...
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