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11/16/91 |
Black Forest:- Altitude ~3700 ft, near the Schauinsland Teleferic Station
along the mountain walkpath. A village below. We had gone for a ride, and this great
snowstorm had hit the day before that we didn't even know about. |
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01/03/92 |
Triberg in Black Forest:- Grandma and Megan looking at clocks in the Willie Neef
shop across the street from the Rathaus and the Zum Lowen Hotel where we stayed. |
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02/22/92 |
Memmingen:-
An alleyway in Memmingen that shares space with a small mountain
river, typical of many of the small streets in the Bavarian Alps towns. |
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02/23/92 |
Garmisch-Partenkirchen:- The Fasching Parade. We stumbled on a Fasching parade in
Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Fasching is like a European Mardi Gras, an excuse to celebrate
wildly before Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent. these were the attendants to the King and
Queen. |
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02/23/92 |
Garmisch-Partenkirchen:- The Fasching Parade. One of the witches who march. |
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02/23/92 |
Garmisch-Partenkirchen:- The Fasching Parade. Jester musicians. |
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02/23/92 |
Garmisch-Partenkirchen:- The Fasching Parade. Jesters flipping a dummy on a
blanket. We heard that they used to flip real people until too many people got hurt. |
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11/01/91 |
The Black Forest:- Paintings on the outside walls of the House Of A Thousand
Clocks, a souvenir and clock shop in Triberg. Note that they cater to tourists - the
wording is in English. |
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02/23/92 |
Garmisch-Partenkirchen:- A painted facade on a shop building in
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, of which there were many all through the Alpine region. This style
of house decoration is quite common. |
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09/27/92 |
Partenkirchen:- A fresco-painted house in Partenkirchen that we found
while we were following the cow-droppings in search of Almabtrieben, the Festival
celebrating the cows coming down out of the mountains after a summer of good grazing. |
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2/24/92 |
The Zugspitze:- On top of the
Zugspitze (2964 meters, or 9680 ft, above sea level). Megan, Mom, and Audrey on top of the
world, or at least Germany (looking Southwest towards the Austrian side of the Alps). |
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06/21/92 |
Vogtsbauernhof Folk Museum:- The Vogtsbauernhof is an outdoor cultural heritage museum
in the Black Forest, in the spirit of Colonial Williamsberg or Plimoth Plantation. This is
the centerpiece building for the folk park, the Vogtsbauernhof (the Judge's Farmhouse)
itself. That's Megan in front. |
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07/27/92 |
Austrian Vacation in the Alps:- In the city of Rattenburg. Megan and Audrey standing by
the Inn river. They built a bridge (ein brücke) over the Inn river back in the 13th
century, and that's how the city of Innsbruck got its name. |
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07/29/92 |
Austrian Vacation in the Alps:- The Gasthof at the WildPark in Aurach, as you enter the
grounds from the parking lot. Lots of places in the Bavarian Alps had this classic Alpine
look to them. |
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08/01/92 |
Austrian Vacation in the Alps:- Innsbruck Austria, in the old part of town, where we
stopped for lunch and a stroll. We ate lunch in a restaurant in the old part of Innsbruck
that was established and has continuously operated as a restaurant since twenty years
before Columbus discovered America - 1472!! |
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09/26/92 |
Neuschwanstein Castle:- This is the castle that Walt Disney used as a model for
his Disneyland castles. Mad Ludwig had three fairytale castles; this is the most famous. A
view of the castle from the Marien Bridge up above it in the mountains. |
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09/24/92 |
Lichtenstein Castle:- Joney and Dave in front of the Lichtenstein castle, while
we were waiting for our tour to begin. |
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10/24/92 |
Lichtenstein Castle:- Megan and Audrey in a little cutout under some stairs at
the old castle ruins. |