Germany•London•Belgium•Lithuania•Belgium•England•France
2019 September
“So I was riding down Unter den Linden on an electric scooter with my son….” is not a sentence I would have expected to say but it happened - and then we got together with some distant relatives - the Jähnerts (whose names were not changed at Ellis Island) - and, after Vilnius, ended the trip in England and Paris. What’s not to like?
Lufthansa Breakfast
A cultural river cruise can make a man thirsty
Lime Electric Scooter guys
You gotta throw in a food shot right?
Berliner Dom from our hotel room across the river
Brandenburg Gate
The Brandenburg gate still impresses and the next day towered over hundreds of thousands of climate activists
Moon over the Dom says it's time to move on
Jaehnerts und Jähnerts
Greiz
Grüner Baum-Märienstrasse
Leberkäse
33 Märienstrasse. Jähnert Residence Zeulenroda
Greiz. Ludwig Jähnert was Assistant Postmaster
Zeulenroda
Saalburg - Where my great grandfather was born
Nurenburger sausage shop
Nurenburger sausage
Marienplatz
Pouring beer in the Viktualienmarkt
Lots of buttons. Oktoberfest parade
9,000 PARTICIPANTS in the parade.
Crowd dude.
Oktoberfest grounds
Rita and Sepp Bachinger lay out a pretty awesome breakfast spread.
Bachinger breakfast
Our home for several hours.
Tent 2. Spatenbräu.
His name was Peter. Yes they name the 100+ oxen that get served at Oktoberfest.
Oxen. Potato salad. Salad salad. Und bier.
Sir Spaten.
A man with a beer but no heart (He carried a pump while waiting for a transplant.)
Coming through
Here’s Sepp dragging himself through Oktoberfest. (He’s on the left.)
Tent...I lost count
Coming through. Precious cargo.
Tent number whatever
Devil Wheel. If ever there was a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Let’s have a few beers and jump on a slanted moving walkway to the top and then slide down.
London from the Tate Modern
Candle, glass mirror
I grew up in solitude and silence
Selfie
Mirror, mirror
39 meters of fog
Hand in front of face.
London skyline
Nice foreground apartment
Off to London. Baker Street_
Tube escalator
The Son - At the Duke of York Theatre
Sir John Gielgud welcoming us to his theatre.
Gielgud interior
Les Mis about to roll
Ian McKellen at the Harold Pinter Theatre
Sir Ian McKellen
Sir Ian
Ceiling selfie
Ah. The interval.
Panhandler Ian
Brussels on a rainy night.
Brussels approaching the Grand Place.
Brussels Grand Place
Vilnius rain
Kempinski
Kaunas from hill
Trakai Castle and Balloon_
Trakai Castle. CLICK IMAGE FOR VIDEO.
Lithuanian countryside.
Kaunas Grand Opening
George opening the plant.
Kaunas from hill
Joe and Jim shooting Kaunas
Vilnius cathedral
Restobiere pork chop
Kempinski at night
Hercules POIROT
Restobiere
Restobieres
Brussels wheel sprouting
The View
Gala’s apartment
Mosaic
Tate Modern
Your Blind Passenger
39 meters of fog-2
Jamavar. Mayfair Indian Restaurant.
Gala’s apartment panorama
Bentley shopping. Mayfair.
Ferrari shopping. Mayfair.
Kings Cross. St. Pancras. Morning.
Renaissance Hotel. St. Pancras.
Moriginals. New restaurant?
Sittingbourne station.
Sittingbourne blooms.
Offenburg interview.
Black Forest beer.
Offenburg schnapps.
Eiffel Tower and statue
Less than ideal weather
Surprisingly, there are quite a few Picassos at the Picasso Museum
Jeff Koons Tulips
Picasso
Van Dyke, Rembrandt, et al
Jacquemart-André Museum
Jacquemart-André Staircase
Downtown Paris
Paris Apartment
Saumon fumé
Rue Cler
Lunch break Rue Cler
Passage Vivienne
Pont Neuf. The “New Bridge” was completed over 400 years ago.
Palais Royale
Louvre Pyramid
Seine cruise
Wedding photo shoot at the Louvre
Louvre Red Dress
Palais Royale
Wine Break. St. Germaine
La Rôtisserie d'Argent
Snails. Slowwww Food.
Waiters cutting lamb shoulder
Lamb shoulder and mashed potatoes
Storming the Bastille
Hamster tubes at Charles de Gaulle Airport
de Gaulle Dawn
Is he old enough?
Leaving Paris
Germany
Chicago