We made it to Romania! It took us 28 hours to get here, although we took a "slight" detour to Bavaria in southern Germany to visit Neuschwanstein, the legendary castle of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", built by Ludwig II, King of Bavaria. It was an amazing building, inside and out, although we could not take pictures of the inside. The whole thing cost 3.7 million marks, which was back in 1860! The mark used to be higher currency than the dollar, but I don't know about now. The castle on the inside is only one third finished as the king went [View Full Entry]

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We just returned from a huge, old castle. They had rooms full of medieval weaponry and complete armour. Also horse bits, which were very facinating. All from the 1400's. There were rooms full of original paintings by the masters such as Frans Hals, etc. Paintings from the Renaissance, Gothic period, etc. A tiny picture only a foot long and half a foot wide was worth millions of dollars. They had fifty rooms full of paintings stored that they did not even have on display worth millions and millions of dollars. This is all owned by the original family who was there [View Full Entry]

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April 22, 2008 We made it safely to Germany to our niece Henita's place. We had a great dinner last night at ten o clock. We lost a whole bunch of stuff, like our brand-new video camera, but the camper is slowly spitting our stuff back out. We actually didn't really lose it; it was all were we left it but our brains have been fuzzy. We've been sleeping well; ten hours overnight! Today we are going down to the border of Austria; if all is well and our plans work out!! [View Full Entry]

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April 21, 2008 Hello Everyone, Finally an update! After several difficult days we are re-united with Ed. Mark was turned back in London as he did not have a Dutch visa, which we never thought was needed as he's a landed immigrant. However, Ed visited different embassies and the High Commission without any success. He brought Mark back to Canada, then turned around and came back after spending 2 1/2 hours in the Calgary airport. He made it back again 27 hours later, and very tired. We are doing better today. We biked around Holland with Jane and Gerrit and all [View Full Entry]

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April 16th. I dont' have any news to add, but am just playing with the blog to see how to work it. Thanks for your patience! [View Full Entry]

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One more day until we leave! It's hard to believe that we will be leaving so soon! I don't have any info yet, but wanted to get this blog up and going! Hopefully I can figure out how to upload the pictures! [View Full Entry]

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