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January 2: Packing and organizing our trip to southern Czech for 3 days.
January 1, 2012: Happy New Year
I have no need to come up with a New Year Resolution. I am living last year’s and
the year before that... We are so blessed with family and friends -
December 31: Gary is shoveling and I am out cleaning off the car so I can take the recycling into town. Our 88 year old neighbor comes out of her house carrying a bottle of champagne. With the few English words she knows and the few German words we know, we understand we have been invited to her place to celebrate the new year. At midnight, we each have a glass of champagne and watch the many firework displays. I feel like the bobbing head on a car dash board trying to look catch sight of each and every burst of colorful lights in the sky.
December 25: Merry Christmas or Veselé Vánoce We have invited Leona to breakfast.
She is the “heads and beds” person for our pension. She knows minimal English so
thank goodness for Google Translation. We sat on the couch each of us taking turns
on the computer. She brought Christmas bread. The recipe came from her Grandmother.
Marci and Christophe gave us a set of pates and a bottle of wine. Alexia and Andre
gave us some chocolate truffles. Bottom line -
December 22: We attempt a trip to Wroclaw, Poland. The GPS, again, gets us all messed
up. I take control with the map and get us on our way. Because the sun is thawing
the snow, there is a lot of splashing on the windshield and the wipers have seen
better days. We pull into a filing station and buy new blades -
December 20: I catch the train back to Liberec without too much problem. I am in the wrong car for the final stage into the Czech Republic. Luckily a young lady translates for the conductor so I know to make the switch while they disconnect the car from the train. Gary is glad to have me home. He has added a hyperlink to the homepage called “Where is Candy Map?”. It is amazing all the place we have visited.
December 19: The hotel staff has recommended a train trip to Ludwigsburg to attend
their Christmas market. The market is much smaller but in a lovely square with two
churches facing each other. We come across a chalet selling german sweets. The young
lady gives us a taste of the honey almond cake and I immediately have to bring home
4 squares for Gary & me. That is probably my one regret, I didn’t buy one of everything
in her case -
http://www.germany-
December 18: We make it to breakfast before they close at 10 am. The market opens at 11 am. We make it a full day of photo taking, finding the hidden treasures and enjoying each others company. We had a “wunderbar” chestnut soup at a traditional restaurant for lunch.
December 17: I am awake at 5:30 am to finish packing. We drive to Liberec so I can
catch the train to Stuttgart Germany to hook up with my sister Marci and my niece
Alexia. It is snowing very hard but as we come out of the mountains the weather improves.
I catch an earlier train to Dresden. It was easy to find the next train to Nurnberg.
Once in Nurnberg I referred to a paper listing of trains, found my departure time
and destination and “volia” -
It was dark when I arrived in Stuttgart but very lively. Saturday night and everyone
was out to visit the Christmas Market. I visited the tourist information center and
discovered that the market and hotel were within walking distance so I started my
walk-
It was wall to wall people. The twinkling of the lights, the chalets loaded with
Christmas gifts to purchase, food and hot mulled wine and the occasional musician
playing his or her instrument overwhelmed the 5 senses -
http://germany-
