Our Irish Route Our UK Route Cheston & Katherine HerveyWe leave tomorrow for five days in Ireland then nine in England and Scotland. Click HERE for a map of our Ireland route and HERE for a map of our UK route. We'll keep you posted! Chet [View Full Entry]

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We got back from Berlin this evening around 5 pm. We came home to a home cooked meal after living on street bratwurst, various pastries, cheese plates, brochen and Nutella for the past three days. We left Berlin at about 8:30 am and the weather (which had been drizzling and cool the whole time we were there) was already in the high 80's. That is a long day in a Fiat Panda with no A/C and 90+ degrees for almost 700 km. At least there are no speed limits on the Autobahn because it almost feels like air conditioning once [View Full Entry]

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As our trip to Berlin draws to a close, I look back and am thankful for all of the wonderful sights we got to see and all of the history that we learned through visiting. Among our shared highlights: Tuesday-Driving through sleet, hail, rain, lightning and thunder helped us to recount Luther's vow to become a monk. Standing in the same room that he translated the Bible illegally, helped me to meditate on what his priorities were. His life wasn't a priority, it was the Word of God. Wednesday-Being in the town where Luther faithfully proclaimed God's Word, and where [View Full Entry]

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We are sitting at the Sony Center at Potsdammer Platz in Berlin right now. They have a free wireless network and people everywhere are on computers. It is quite a happening place with restaurants, bars, a movie theatre, fountain and tons of people. We have been insanely busy the last three days and unfortunately have not been able to get to an internet connection until now. I will give you a quite blow by blow of what we have done and I'll leave the musings to Kat later. Tuesday - We left Koblenz in the morning on the bus down [View Full Entry]

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On our way to Berlin for a few days via Eisenach and Wittenberg. Can't wait. Chet [View Full Entry]

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The slides of Cochem that my parents showed me as a child, did perfect justice to this town. I dreamed of these towns, never thinking I would be so blessed to someday visit them myself. As we drove up to Cochem, which is a tiny little jewel located right by the Mosel River, about 30 to 45 minutes from Koblenz, I was in astonished that this place still looked like the slides my parents shot 30 years back. Cochem had me under a spell, and I would have to say that after Brugge, Cochem is definitely a close second! Cochem [View Full Entry]

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Netherlands, Belgium Leg Cheston & Katherine Hervey Again, we're not really in Chimay, Belgium (we actually got back to Koblenz about 10 pm) but we went there today and it was unbelievable. We woke up this morning in Nazareth, which is to the Northwest of Brussels but east of Brugge which is almost on the coast. We drove into Brussel and 15 minutes after entering the edge of the city we renamed it, "The City with the Most Confusing Road System and the Poorest Road Signs in Europe." Once we had gone through 5 tunnels (one [View Full Entry]

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We are not really in Brugge right now but we spent all day there and like it better than where we are now so that is why I put it as our location. Ah, Belgium....what to say. Waffles, beer, chocolate, beer, cobblestone streets, and did I mention beer? We spent the day in three churches, two tea rooms and a brewery. In the churches we witnessed a mass at Basiliek van het Helig Bloed where supposedly they have a vial of the blood of Christ, we were treated to a beautiful Bach fuge during the warm up session of an [View Full Entry]

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It's so funny, how being in the Netherlands for more than two days, I begin to pronunciate the words with CHHHHHHH in front of everything. We go to ask directions somewhere, and when we ask, "Where is Voorschoten?" they look at you as if they haven't ever heard of that place before. But when you re-enunciate it as "Voorschhhhhoten", they say, "Ah! Yes!" and give you the directions promptly. I found myself reading things and putting an automatic "chhhhhhh" in everything. "Oh look, they serve mocchhhhhas here!" Their language is really neat, but it sounds like you're clearing out your [View Full Entry]

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Greetings from The Netherlands...errr, Holland...where dutch people ride bikes and from what I can guess, eat, sleep and live. We spent the fourth of July in Amsterdam where we took a Canal Tour and went to the Anne Frank House. All the streets had the mixture of the smell of marijuana, body odor, stagnant water and every so often, pastries. It rained off and on all day but it made the ambience of the city very nice. I must say that all these kooks who want to legalize marijuana back home just need to spend one sober day in Amsterdam [View Full Entry]

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