24 July 22: Our AirBnB keys were being held for us at a restaurant across the street from the apartment building, the Eden Restaurant, which featured Vietnamese cuisine.
We decided to check it out the restaurant for dinner and it wasn’t bad at all.
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24 July 22: We made it to Berlin! Our apartment is VERY spartan, definitely East German-ish. But again, the location can’t be beat!
We arrived just in time for the 9pm sunset…and now it’s dinner time!
More »24 July 22: They’re trying to make up some time. A nearly 1 hour delay will whittle down to about 30 min if it goes as planned.
24 July 22: Fire on the route. We are sitting in the town of Offenbach. They’re working on a new route.
“So long as they don’t run out of beer on the train…” ~Dave Vollmer
24 July 22: More chaos as we learned that the original train on the 2nd leg of our trip, from Karlsruhe to Berlin, was canceled and combined with another train.
We basically got ourselves on that other train and figured we’d just sit anywhere in First Class — we have First Class tickets — and be okay. We are at least heading in the right direction…towards Berlin…
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Phew! What a chaotic morning!
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23 July 22: One week into the trip. Some random thoughts…
More »23 July 22: Boys’ choice for dinner Saturday evening. They chose an Italian restaurant called Casa di Mario and it was amazing!
Then we enjoyed a pretty sunset right behind the Eiffel Tower while drinking the rest of the red wine we bought a couple days prior.
23 July 22: So…what does “Free Day in Paris” look like? It started with a trip to Le Bon Marche department store…one of the oldest in the world…except much of the store was closed, I think due to HVAC issues. So we were restricted to the food and alcohol sections only. I was able to pick up some souvenirs and we met a gentleman who used to do wine classes in the States, and helped us pick some good inexpensive wines.
More »22 July 22: Here are some photos of the work being done on Notre Dame cathedral. If you recall, it suffered a massive fire in 2019.
We didn’t get a chance to visit the cathedral itself, it’s likely to remain closed until Spring 2024, France and the church hope it can open up in time for the 2024 Olympics, to be held in Paris.
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