Little Gator Friend

A Rainy Hike in South Tyrol

Monument to the Battle of Nations

Swinging Peter

Brahms Piano

At-the-Park

Kastellet – Copenhagen

Falafel Bowl

There is a sizeable Turkish population here in Germany because of waves of migration over different decades and centuries. Döner Kebab places are everywhere here–kind of like fast food places in the U.S. We love these places for a salad or a veggie-packed bowl or sandwich. Always so good. Falafel is yum.

Muellers and Parrishes

Nathan Strasbourg Cathedral

Grianan of Aileach ring fort

Happy New Year

Happy Independence Day!

Crawling Peter

Öeschinensee

At the Hagia Sophia

Nathan & Jill in the Frankfurt Altstadt

OMSI with El and Adia

Rome

Photography Reality

Carrick-a-Rede suspension bridge

Huck digs it

Black Forest Hike

Nathan & Teddy, August 1, 2023

Making chäschüechli

Don’t you love Colonial Era Headstones?

N&J-at-Wawel

Cathedral Kõln

Chicago Theatre

Kilkenny Castle

Weenie Roast

St. John’s College, Oxford

Nephew Michael

A snowy drive in the Italian Alps

Berliner Dom and the Radio Tower

Spot The Famous Castle (Neuschwanstein)

Buskers-in-the-Station

Jill in Nooksia National Park, waiting for her mushroom soup lunch

Guggenheim Bilbao

Müsli for breakfast

Night One, Rome

Christmas Eve Nibbles

Cesky Krumlov

Ready for presents

Jill, Lake Bled

Jill – Copenhagen

Matt R. Horn

Sleepy Hugh

Amongst the Ferns

Nathan at Dunmore Head

Dinner in Konstanz

Seealpsee

Wartburg

Great-Niece, Sariah (Lydia’s daughter)

Peter with his new Duplo

Huck in the Woods

Peter is too cute!

Liszt’s Silent Travel Piano

Mendelssohn Haus

Musicians Hall of Fame

Loving Portugal

Interlaken

On the Üetliberg

Chocolate, anyone?

Apples in the Garage

Teddy PlayDoh

Hugh Linnell

Star Wars Poster

Monument to the Battle of Nations

Simon, Poppy’s newest fan

Lunch Crew

Dessert

We only order dessert if it’s really going to be amazing. This was worth it! Flourless chocolate cake with gelato and fresh fruit. (Yes, I ate all the fruit.) The round yellow fruit with the wild leaves is a kind of gooseberry that they use a lot as a dessert garnish.

A Day in Bern

Hugh with his awesome mama

cake

Dragon Piper

Ohio River Trip

Zephyr at the Science Museum

Hiking the Seven Hanging Valleys

The new living room

A Day at the Park

Nathan in London

On the Bergbahn

Teddy’s The King of The Swingers

Sunken Trace

The Hikers: Lauren, nieces Emery, India, and nephew Bodhi

Sunrise at sea

Lichtfest Leipzig

Computer Games

Rheinfall

Fish Market, Kristiansand

Sternwheeler Fun

A wet day in Konstanz

At The Oper Leipzig

Tower Bridge

Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon

Waterfall in the Pyrenees

Assisi

Thrill Walk, Birg

Tapas

We fell in love with tapas when we were in Spain for a couple months. We grabbed this tapas meal before a concert. It was so yummy, but the aioli had us tasing garlic for the whole night!

Sorrento

Our trip to Europe with our children in 2006

I Went Down to the Crossroad

Nathan at Langafoss

Arthur

BMW

Schlôss Gohlis

At the Transportation Museum

Alex and Teddy

Civita

N & J in Zagreb

Mendelssohn House concert

Tuckered

Jill at the Palace

Gutenberg Mainz

Pyramid!

Siena

The Vippefyret

Monks’ Mound

Personalized Toblerone care of Cousin Simon

Ukrainian Choir

Teddy loves Ice Cream!

Harvest season!

Beethoven String Quartet

These instruments were given to Beethoven ~1800.

Skjolden

Our Shack–The Crossroad

New Orleans–Jackson Square

Chester is cool!

Alter Elbtunnel

Solyanka

This is a Russian soup that is popular here in eastern Germany. It’s reminiscent of chili, but with no beans and a different spice profile. Tasty.

Piper and the Pink Blanket

Schlafzimmer

Emery & the Little Big Band

Cathedral Interior

At the summit

Mozart Playmobil

Parm

Boarding in Leipzig

Goethe’s Garden

Little Trabant car at Augustusplatz

Sad Subie

Down the stairs to the tunnel

The street where we live…for now

Lego!

Adam showing us the ropes in Nashville

Grandpa & Teddy Arch

Nathan and Teddy at the Gateway Arch.

Wartburg Castle courtyard

Goulash (gulyás)

Another dish we fell in love with in 2019. We found this goulash at an Irish pub.

Piper in the Red Dress

On the Trail

A snack for the train

When we are catching an early train, we will often stop at a bakery for a bite for the journey. This was a tasty ham and cheese pretzel (brezel).

On the move again

Bright and Shiny Elizabeth Tower

At the Studebaker Theater

Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!

Bell Canyon Hike

Salzburg Cemetery

Paulinum Church

Sagra Gorgonzola

Kayak Jill

Tower Bridge, Tower of London, Thames

Laziz with Emily and Kevin

X marks the Spot (for treasure? No! the spot where we were!

Niece India and Nephew Bodhi

Pasteries at Hart & Herzlich

Vickburg Battlefield

Moravian Stars

Flying

Huck & Peter

Delta Blues Museum

Beatles Museum

Grotto

Opera House in Wiesbaden

Altes Rathaus (Old Town Hall)

Top o’ the Arch

At the top of the Gateway Arch, St. Louis, Missouri, July 26, 2023.

Almost Heaven, the Bauserman place inWest Virginia

Luzern

At the monster park

Our trip to Europe with our children in 2006

Salmon in Siena

Commuist Mural in Dresden

Gate at Buchenwald

On the Moon

With the Emerald Princess

Teddy and Bubbles

Archie

Hamburg

Huck and Piper on the river trail

Max

Demonstrating a proper bow hold, Max is eagerly awaiting the go-ahead from the doctor so he can play the violin again.

Max Violin

Bob, Jill, Jana, and Torr

Birthday Candle

Heavy Metal Trumpet

At the Waterford Crystal factory

At the Movies in Munich

Lunch in Lausanne

We met our nephew, Kimball, and his mission companion for lunch.

Chagall Windows

Old Town, Tallinn

Hill of Tara

Teddy Pilot and Peter Pirate

Gone Fishin’

Augustusplatz “Ice Dream” Festival

It’s basically the Christmas Market, but for winter, with a big skating rink in the middle and Valentines hanging from lighted trees.

Ice Skating

Peter Playing Choo-Choos

Bay of Kotor

Pieta Capella degli Scrovegni

A Prairie Home Companion

Piping hot hand brot

Bern Switzerland Temple

Dave & Kathy Langr

A Hike to Slieve Martin

Nathan at the Irish Pub in Leipzig

Nathan in London

The port at work

Christmas Morning

Nathan Paradise

Tortelli d’erbetta in Parma

At the Bastei

Sognefojord

Memorial at Buchenwald

Umbria

Peter

Laber Summit

Stolperstein in our neighborhood

Painting Teddy

Painting is an adventure!

Max and Margaret

Huck’s adventure in the woods

Not as crowded as Abbey Road

Rock of Cashel

Workin’ at the Ball Factory

Beethoven

Please appreciate the bird.

Children’s Museum

Bach’s Tomb Thomaskirche, Leipzig

Cooking Pot at Dunfanaghy Workhouse

Currywurst

Nathan and the Archangel

Ohio River Trail

General Rufus Putnam, Nathan’s 3rd cousin, 8 times removed

Lighthouse and the “Teepot” cafe – Rostock

Fun Uncle Nathan

August Snow Storm

At the Schloss Kyborg

Daytrip to Wiesbaden

Currywurst

I mentioned this one in another post. Classic street food. It’s a sausage, warmed and sliced, topped with a spicy ketchup.

The Aqueduct – Segovia, Spain

New Year’s Eve

Constantine statue in York

Rostrevor Forest

Up the Beanstalk

Thorvaldsen’s Christus

Hadrian’s Wall

Red Rocks

To Southampton

Happy Halloween!

Charlemagne Reliquary

Reliquaries are often made to look like what they house. This one hold’s Charlemagne’s skull. Charming?

Max in the mountains

Silver Lake

Ebenezer Baptist

World of Coke

Irish beauty

Shakespeare’s birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon

Leipzig Zoo gate

Concert

Grand Ole Opry

Dresden Christmas

Nuremburg

The Door; Wittenberg

Parade Route

Spiral Staircase at Schloss Hartenfels, Torgau

Nathan – Copenhagen

Putnam Bridge

Maxim Vengerov

Piper with a cookie

Cavern Club

Teddy loves to swing!

Harbor, Stockholm

Flower Watering

Falstaff Curtain Call

Viking Gangplank

Verdi Requiem

Can’t get enough Alps

Gewandhaus

Carters Vintage Guitars

A new Erfurtian friend (kid’s show character called Bernd das Brot or “Bernard the Bread”)

Wildhaus Holiday

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Yummy

Nathan & Max

SweetArthur

Storytime with Grandpa

Paddington Bear

On our bike ride in Waterford

Jill and Space Rock

At the Airport

Nathan atop Gowbarrow Fell, Lake District

Guarneri

Liz & Christian at the Schilthorn

Piper, Hugh, & Huck

Market in Leipzig featuring chickie nug nug

Grandma and Teddy

An Ovine friend

Salt-Mine-Sculpture

Kilkenny Castle

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Cotswolds cuteness

Charlemagne’s Throne

A Tribute

Giotto Last Judgement

School of Music

Adriatic Sunset

Climbing Croagh Patrick

Nathan on the Heidelberg Altbrucke

Paganini

Our Missouri Loves

Castle on the Rhein

Collect ’em all!

Pfefferkuchen Museum

Finnish folkloric show

Eiger, Mönch, Jungfrau

Christmas Market-Berlin

Egyptian Cows

Boys in the Back

Some of the Clan

Organ played by Bach

Jared on the Schilthorn

Leipzig Pizza

Royal Opera House

Civita, a town on a hill that is crumbling and dying, but so pretty!

An evening walk

Some of the great entertainment on the ship: James Doughty

Playing chess at the “tower” library

WV wildflowers

Kristallnacht Memorials

Putnam House

Cathedral, Kristiansand

The Good Ship Goethe

In-the-Mine

Trieste

On the Bike Trail

At the Panorama

Nathan on the upper observation deck of the panorama in Wittenberg.

Sleepy Pete

Huck & Piper

Peter

Piper and a Lego friend

So many Steps

Beatlesplatz

Swiss Alarm Clock

Nathan & Poppy at Rheinfall

Bikers

Staying Warm Near the Fire at the Christmas Market

Jill in Chicago

A mural on our food tour in Uptown.

Sarah & Poppy and Bran Castle

Nathan and the String Quartet

These instruments were given to Beethoven ~1800.

Music salon at the Mendelssohn House

Jill at the Finnish Market

Finally looking like Autumn

Cross of Nails

Nathan with a statue of Pablo de Sarasate in Pamplona

Cathedral Depictions

Sushi

Last week we took a little day trip to a nearby town called Machern. On our way back, we stopped at a little Vietnamese restaurant and had various things. Here is the yummy sushi and sashimi.

Wartburg

Dragon Huck

The finished cookies

River Cruise

Teddy & friend

A few candles

Blossoms on the Hill — we can see many trees in bloom from the kitchen window

Wolfach

Eggs Benedict

We love some tasty eggs. Sauces here are often filled with fresh herbs.

A Day in Heidelberg

The Mueller Quartet

MLK Center

The Last Supper

Berchtesgaden From Above

Huck Slippin’ & Slidin’

Nathan-Studying-on-the-Train

Rhein Hike

Teddy Giggles

Wildflowers everywhere in the Alps

Peter

Teddy & Pumpkin

Alpine Beauties

Colorado Rockies

Sword in the Stone

Jill and Nephew Ammon

Em and India Saturday Cartoons

Kinsale

Merchant’s Bridge, Erfurt

Cervantes, Don Q, & Sancho

At the Zoo

Hugh Linnell

Goofy McGoofball

Luzern Kapellbrücke

Trieste Roman Amphitheater

Our curly girl

At the Cinema Museum

Building across the street

Tower Grove Park in St. Louis

The Radio Tower and Alexanderplatz

Nathan with Paganini’s violin in Genova

Stolzenfels Castle over the Rhein

Grieg Haus

Huck and Piper

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Piper cropped

Nathan in the Pyrenees

Street Art Dresden

Gutenberg Museum

Halle und Handel

Kiddos in Manarola

Our trip to Europe with our children in 2006

Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Emerald Princess, Rostock

Baby Hugh

Milan Cathedral

Spanish Steps

Peter in the Discovery Room

Albert Schweitzer Statue, Strasbourg

St Regis

Teddy & the Tram Car

Teddy testing out a tram car.

Denkmal der Begegnung

T.Rex

Nathan & Jill at the Frankfurt Alte Oper

Raclette

Ok, Swiss family! We found a raclette restaurant in Krakow. There was just one guy running the place, but this was so delicious. For the uninitiated, raclette cheese comes in a giant wheel. They put the sliced surface under a broiler and then scrape off the melted portion onto a slice of bread. And it comes with good pickles, which was refreshing. Don’t get me started on the abomination that is German pickles.

The Band

Nathan and his new purchase

Erfurt, by the Dom and St. Severus

Big Gator Friend

Poppy with th Hagenbuch cat

Alte Oper, Frankfurt

Ayyyy! The Fonz

Peter and the “rains”

Archie

In The Dolomites

Alex and Teddy

The Ohio Company Land Office

The Crazy House

Inside Benagil Cave

Positano

Mosaic

Derwentwater, Lake District

Family Fun

Duomo Roof

Liszt’s Salon

Too cute!

Benagil Cave

The Vasa

Stasi Museum

Santiago de Compostela

BBQ

This was a crazy meal that we shared in Erfurt. Pretty authentic and surprisingly good barbeque, with a European flair of course.

Matterhorn

House of Blues

Muscle Shoals Studio

At the Chocolarium

Chopin-Concert

We built a car

Christmas Oratorio at the Thomaskirche

This is the same place the Christmas Oratorio was premiered.

Rostock, Germany

Grammy & Teddy on the Train

Circuit de Pineta

Concert At The Gewandhaus

Beautiful Torino

Muddy Buddy

Peter in the Gravel Pit

Huck ready for Legoland

Merry-Christmas

Teddy by the fountain

Algarve Coast

University of Cork, Stone Corridor

Passing under the Great Belt Bridge

Airboat Tour

Jared doing a handstand at the top of the Üetliberg a la Grosspapi

On the Camino

Vanilla!

Erfurt, by the Dom and St. Severus

Big chess in Salzburg

Piper & Grammy

Next Purchase…A Bigger Bike for Nathan

Hugh Linnell

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Venaria Reale

Salle at Schumann House

Alexander Nevsky Cathedral

Snowy Pond

Restaurant in the trees?

Belfast City Hall

Norway!

Lauren

Teddy & Peter at train night

Nikolaikirche

St. Elisabeth, Wartburg

Jana & Hugh

Beverley Minster

Christmas PJs

Lago Maggiore

Hughman

Torc Waterfall, Killarney NP

Time with Emily and Kevin ❤️

Liguria

Gelato (caffe + nocciola and dark chocolate + salted caramel)

Mt. Chocolate

Galleria Grande

Nathan and Leo

Teddy

PBandJandfrench fries

Last Concert in Leipzig

Huck: Ready For Adventure

Peter & Pumpkin

Peter and his Bumpa

Margaret, India, Hugh, & Archie

Nathan’s sister, Liz, and her husband, Christian

Piper Riding the Little Train

Mission Concepcion

Weekend in Atlanta

Beatles Chess

Teddy

Aqueduct – Segovia, Spain

Light Monkeys at Leipzig Zoo

Schneeballen

Nobody Expects THE Michael Palin!

River Po, Torino

Peter & Teddy Bikes

Little Buddy Hugh

Piper at Work

Enjoying some milder weather, including seeing the sun.

The whole gang at the beginning of the adventure

Our trip to Europe with our children in 2006

Boarding

Breakfast (Frühstuck)

Yogurt with müsli and beautiful fresh fruit is a super popular item on cafe menus. I don’t have a photo, but another yummy breakfast is a Käse Frühstuck: bread and all kinds of yummy cheeses.

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Nikolaikirche

Castle Game

Salumeria

Another Mediterranean “bits and pieces” meal at a local salumeria–a lot like tapas, but Italian. With a little basket of bread and a salad, a plate like this is surprisingly filling and oh so good.

Rucking in Mueller Park

Traffic Jam

With the ship

Peter on the ‘rain

Dome and Rubble from Frauenkirche

Cathedral Dome , Siena

Derry from the Peace Bridge

At a Concert Schumann House

Beautiful Canals Strasbourg

Utah Symphony

San Antonio Skyline

Thomas the Tank Engine Story Time

Bridge of Sighs, Oxford

Piper & Grammy

Brat & Brotchen

Classic street food and the most German thing that we have eaten. Not only is it great for grabbing on the go, but it’s an easy thing for us have at home too.

Kayaking the Thünersee

Unterwelten Tour

It looks like we are touring a bathroom…but this is an unused part of the underground station. It was the only place we could take photos.

Auschwitz-Gate

January ’25

Nathan and Brahms

Kylemore Abbey

A Room With a View

Bloody Foreland

Time for a show

Huck and Hugh

Inside the Völkerschlachtdenkmal

at the Gewandhaus Leipzig

Erfurt

Charlemagne Chess

Walensee

Italian Hot Chocolate

Ciocolata calda is basically a chocolate bar melted in hot milk. You are pretty much drinking ganache. Yum!

Reggia La Venaria Reale

Just a Drop of Maple Sap

Lake Bled

Piper in the Creek

Nathan and Lauren

Christmas Decorations Everywhere

Sibelius Monument

Empanadas

This was our appetizer for an amazing steak dinner we had in Krakow.

Genova

Tacos in Dallas

At the Schloss

Austrian Alps

Enoch

With the girls (and one English boy)

Museum del Jamòn – AKA a Spanish place of worship

Santa Cruz Sunset

Colosseum

Nathan, Poppy, & Liz

All-Terrain Archie

Cocoa Time

Hugh Smiles

Mozart’s Birthplace

Royal Albert Hall

Alpine Cow

Bern Clock

Guys and Dolls

Liz with Aunt Margrit

Tower Bridge

Luzern

The street where we live…for now

Mt. Etna

At Whitney Plantation

Boys from Liverpool

Skyline

Pasteries

A selection of yummies from Hewn.

Kayaking

Huck & Piper Bikes

The Big Fish, Belfast

Sculpture in the Park

I love this one, because depending on my mood the figure has a different meaning. Is it sad? lonely? wistful? just cold?