Our hotel in Salzburg is on the left bank of the river. Most of the swarm of tourists is on the right. The Sound of Music is everywhere. Simon A Salzburg Lesson Central Europe 2012 ...Read More
About 1200 in Rothenburg, Bavaria (pronounced rotenberg) in order to build a city wall they levied a tax on all of the properties within the walls of the city. The tax was unusual for the time in th...Read More
Yosemite is Beautiful The Jungfrau is Beautiful Yosemite is a National Park owned by the all of the citizens of the USA. The Jungfrau* area is mostly privately owned land apparently with relatively go...Read More
Nurit and I did go hiking in Switzerland for my 65th birthday and we did have two days of perfect weather. On the rest of the days the weather was not so perfect but we still had fun and learned a l...Read More
While traveling on the lifts and trains in Switzerland we met some young men who were base jumpers. It is a sport in which you jump off a cliff and free fall for a few seconds then release a parachu...Read More
Bonds were issued in the mid 1800’s to finance most Swiss Railways. The investors from London & Paris lost most of their money (think Greece). The trains are still running however. They ...Read More
“If God had intended us to fly. He never would have given us railways.” Michael Flanders Amtrak is the model for the Post Office Evergreen Aviation Museum...Read More
At a hotel I stayed at in North Carolina they had a “Clean Remote” for the TV. Apparently there are enough people in the world who worry about germs on remote controls to make this product...Read More
I went to Olean, New York last week to visit my best friend from high school. And had a nostalgia filled day. We went to dinner at the Beef and Barrel and the next morning I drove around my old haunts...Read More