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You may be wondering why the local Tavern is included here. There's another painting above the signage :) Main street of town in the mid 30's The local RSL ^^^^^^ Not the greatest art works in the world, & I didn't get them all. But it does make an interesting afternoon, learning a bit...

My Dad built a 25 foot boat at home, we launched it in this same spot :) Bit of an interesting story behind this one. Pretty difficult at times to get a decent shot of some of the works, with parked cars, pedestrians, rubbish bins and the like :) Local supermarket. I "think" the first...

Signs We visited Garmisch and Oberammergau Us in square at Garmisch going to PX for breakfast Paintings on house near Oberammergau On hotel balcony - my sister is in the leftmost window, my mom is next and I am in the center window On the hotel balcony are Peg and Bob Girl Guide...

My mother had written to relatives of my dads to set up a meeting. 1950-3Jul - postcard to my mother Letter to my mother c/o her friend Letter to my mother's friend German letter She got the addresses from letters that were written to my grandmother (Daddy's mother) after WWII asking...

One of the places we visited in 1950 was the medieval walled city of Rothenburg. German sightseers in the Market Square Ploenlein is the small square which is said to be the most photogenic place in Rothenburg. Evidently my dad thought so too as he took a lot of photos there The square has a...

Berchtesgarden In addition to visiting the Eagles Nest my father also took a lot of photos of the town, Restaurant menu Berchtesgarten Paintings on front of building Street Berchtesgarten Sunday group Berchtesgarten Berchtesgarten roadside shrine family by shrine family by...

Daddy was fascinated by the way the traffic was directed - policemen with white gloves who were almost dancing. He took movies of them. German traffic cop German children old couple Mannheim street American GIs with a German girl - the GIs had access to many things unavailable to the...

Right. We'll actually make this a little bit interactive. On some of the Murals, you'll see a black number on an oval shaped plaque in the corner. If you take note of the number, and look here, you'll get a bit of a description of the painting :) https://katikatiopenairart.co.nz/ourmurals/ Oh...

Heidleberg from castle I think we went to Heidelberg on the way to Mannheim to stay with our friends. My father was on the funicular and was taking movies - he was using up the film leader (when you loaded a film camera, the part of the film in the beginning would be exposed to light so that...

Part of the bridge across the Rhine Ruins along Rhine at a dock where we stopped for a few minutes(Koln-Dusseldorf) Daddy took a lot of single frame 16 mm shots of the castles on the Rhine - as far as I know those shots never had anything done with them. He also took black and white photos...

Ruins - Koln - 1950 Ruins in Koln falling roof and rubble Black market region in Koln As I remember it, we took a cruise on the Rhine - I think we started and ended at Cologne, although we may have been on the boat overnight. Just leaving dock at Koln My mom, my sister and I looking...

There are still frequent ferries across from Denmark, and the trip takes only 20 minutes. According to the website: All the Helsingborg Ferries have been recently modernised to high standards and are equipped with all the latest facilities such as restaurants and bars, spacious lounges, Cafes...

In 1950, my father's expenses were paid to International conferences in Paris and in Oxford. All he had to do was to find a way to fund us. So he worked at two jobs (commuting by train between Baltimore and Philadelphia) for the winter of 1949-1950 Passport photo My mother prepared us for the...

November 6, 2000 This was to be a lazy day. I wanted to cut Bob's hair, but didn't get it done. He wanted to repair the UV protecting Sunbrella (the dark stripe) on the jib. It was too windy to do that as the jib would have to be taken down. Instead, he got out his tools and started modifying...

We pass the Flagstaff Bastion and the Jefferson Davis Memorial Park above us on the rampart Jefferson Davis Memorial Park (which I thought was a strange thing to have where he was held prisoner). It has a gunnery track for a 15 inch Rodman gun. Ramparts and then enter the Casement Museum...

We come down alongside Fort Monroe and we can see the brick row houses - military housing and the Old Point Comfort Lighthouse. Old Point Comfort Lighthouse As we round the hotel coming in toward the marina about 12:15 , I call on the cell phone and tell them we want fuel before we go into our...

Bob and I started down the InterCoastal Waterway (ICW) for the first time in November 2000. Technically the ICW goes from Boston down the Atlantic coast of the US, around the end of Florida, along the Gulf Coast and ends in Brownsville Texas. It includes the Chesapeake Bay. We were going to go...

Swans on the Canals Church of St. Nicholas Afterward we went back to the boat. I ran the scooter on the side of the water where it wasn't cobblestones, and it was much more comfortable, but that made Mike nervous. Scootering on the smooth edge of the water The boat ramp has cleats on...

4 November 2022 We went down and sat at the same table and the waiter brings me cranberry juice without asking. I had the Wellness Bowl, which sounded good when the waiter said what it was - cinnamon apples. Wellness bowl It was OK but it had a lot of other stuff in it like strawberries and...

They took a photo of us at the entrance, and after it was printed, Lesl bought it and gave it to me. Lesley, me and Mike Millwheels at the entrance The site was completely paved with cobblestones First we saw them making wooden shoes. Shoemaker Wooden shoe workshop And then we went...