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| Brian - Adonia - Lulu - Jodi - Richard enjoy supper at the monastery |
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| The Palace of Trier |
We are in Germany - very close to the border of Luxembourg. We are staying with our friend Jodi in the village of Oberkail - which is a just outside Trier. Trier may be the oldest city in Germany - dating back to 150 AD.
We left Tallahassee on Wednesday at 6 PM. We had a nice flight to London. In London - we spent about 6 hours in a Yotel - which has tiny 8 x 8 room pods. They include a bed - TV - and bathroom. After that - at about 4 PM Thursday - we flew from London to Luxenbourg. As the sun set - we crossed the English Channel from Dover to Pas De Calais - we could see the beaches of Normandy and the White Chalk Cliffs of Dover. We flew right over Bastogne - the site of the Battle of the Bulge.
We landed in Luxembourg - picked up our Audi A1 rental car - and drove to Oberkail. We were lucky the car had a GPS installed because - we did not have phone service yet and would have been lost. In Oberkail - we spotted Jodi's Castle.
Jodi was one of Lulu's top students. She was in her first class in London - and one of the 30 Wonders of Project LEAD - an FSU federal project that ended with 30 students earning Master of Science in Library Science degrees. Since then Jodi has been a librarian for the Department of Defense in Japan - and now here in Germany.
Jodi works at a US military base about 5 miles from here. She lives in this beautiful castle. She drives a Mercedes SUV. Her home is beautiful - and it will be a separate story following this. She made the mistake of inviting us to come over.
We love Germany. We are in the Rhineland - it is such a tidy place. Imagine that - most of the people drive Mercedes - Porsches- Audis - and Volkswagens. Their tidy homes and yards remind me of the Pennsylvania Dutch farms south of our home in Pennsylvania.
We toured Trier today. We shopped in the old downtown. We bought simm chips for our iphone 7s. The cost of full service including - email - text messages - surfing the net - phone calls - is 10 euros for 1 GB of data - it is good for a month. How about that for a monthly phone bill - 10 euros - about $11.
We had brat sandwiches for 2 euros for lunch. We also had some parties.
At 6 PM - near Oberkail - we went to a monastary for supper. I had dumplings filled with meat. There were 6 of us in our dinner party. We got home at 9 PM - where Lulu crashed in bed. I promised myself I would publish this before I went to bed.
We have 2 more nights here - we are going to visit the military base tomorrow. Lulu was never in a PX Store on a military base. We will be home in time to see the FSU/Syracuse football game on our Slingbox. We will fly to London - to be with Joan on Sunday night.
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| This is our Avis rental- Audi A1. I had it over 100 MPH on the autobahn |
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| Trier Palace |
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| Shopping in downtown Trier - 48 degrees and cloudy - sunset |
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| This is the oldest Roman Gate - Porto Negri - 150 AD - Trier |
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| Check out these neat stone steps - I bought our phone chips here |
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| Town Square statue - Trier |
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| Karl Marx home in Trier - he is not a dirty word here |
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| Buyign pastries in Trier |
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| Karl Marx house sign |
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| This is Jodi's Castle - build in 1350. |
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| Jodi's Castle - her Mercedes - and our Audi |
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| The back of Jodi's Castle |
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| Our room is the third floor skylight |
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| Her garden patch |
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| The sunset as we passed over Bastogne at 5 PM |
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| Jodi and Richard in her kitchen - Richard is also a teacher at a different base. |
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