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New and improved Europe trip photo post… with 75% more photos and 80% less words… and it’s still free!!!

Rothenburg, Germany… arguably the best-preserved medieval town anywhere in all of Europe… Oh, and they have good meat there… a lot of good meat… Because… Germany!

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Adventure walking…

Most of you probably know me well enough that you recall I have this thing I do… and I call it; ‘the adventure walk’. Whenever I am someplace besides home, I get up super early and just start walking. I … Continue reading

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Taking the train to Germany… uh… wait… I changed my mind… I want to walk…

There I am, sitting on a train bound for Germany. I like trains. This is me when I realized how fast we were going… We all know I suck at math… and Americans can’t do the metric system… but isn’t that … Continue reading

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Where in the world did you go on this new adventure, Mr. Browne, I hear you all asking…

Well, we spent three days in London… And then we took the train up to Lancashire to stay with our cousin Dot for three more days, before a one-day train trip to Liverpool to see the Beatles museum… and then … Continue reading

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Here are just a few of the awesome places you can expect to hear about over the next few weeks…

London… because where else would I have seen the Queen of England and almost the entire Royal Family??? And Paris… because where else does one go to get pastries? And Germany… for the beer and castles… oh, yeah… And of course … Continue reading

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Colors… part 8…

These are pictures of Dachau concentration camp near Munich, Germany. They are not easy to look at. It is not an easy place to visit. But there might be few places on earth better suited to our study of black … Continue reading

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Colors… part 7…

Rothenberg, Germany… pronounced ‘Row-ten-burg’… is one of the best-preserved medieval walled towns in Europe. Near the end of the Second World War, the Mayor thought he ought to make at least a token resistance to the American troops when they … Continue reading

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Well, now I have to tell a funny story about schnapps… because I told a new follower I would… and this is an interactive blog, or so I keep saying…

So here it goes. And for a change, this isn’t a story about me. It didn’t even happen to me. It happened to my youngest brother. He was in Europe… on a Rhine river cruise to be precise… This was back … Continue reading

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