We have busy for the last two days drinking beer! Largely due to Oktoberfest. Munich is a great city with a lot of interesting places and a very efficient, clean subway system. It has taken us only a few minutes to get to a beer garden or Oktoberfest. The beer is amazingly good, cold and cheap! Buffie has an alergic reaction to some bug bite and the only thing that is helping the pain is beer, so we are drinking and siteseeing! We visited at least 3 beer gardens and as two cute girls we were constantly being offered drinks or to show our chest! Yes, as many of the folks are drinking and they want to see women's breasts. There are lots of international folks and a fair number of Americans. Hofrahaus was our first ... read more

On our last day in Prague, I tried to introduce us to a little more culture that we do not have in the states. We walked around the city one last time and it is still really beautiful. Lots of arcitecture. Unfortunately, I do not know the difference between Renaissance, Baroque, Classical and all of the other styles...it is just really amazing!! I have not shown pictures or wrote enough about the city, just due to the limited time available on the internet at the cafe and the keyboards have the letters in different places. I promise I will write more later when I have more time to show the city. Tuesday night, I wanted to go to the Opera house in Praque so we treked across the city and bought tickets. After getting dressed up ... read more

On Sunday, we visited the Terezin concentration camp about an hour outside of Prague. I probably won't write much because you can imagine what happened there and I don't need to explain it. It was a very heavy day of seeing the living quarters, showers (or what they called showers) and the camp itself. In between seeing the camp and walking over the museum where children drew pictures to keep their spirits high, we went for lunch and beer. This camp was one of the smaller ones and I believe the guide said that nearly 100,000 people lost their lives in just a few years. Also, it was the one that the Red Cross was planning on checking out to find out what the Nazi's were doing. Unfortunately, the guards had a one year warning before ... read more

We spent a week in paradise, the island of Nevis. The weather was great every day with blue skies and temperatures reaching 85 degrees. Every day we were there we had the option of several activities which almost always included something with the beach. On Tuesday several of us went horseback riding along the beach and throughout some of the neighborhoods on the Southwest side of the island. There were million dollar homes and countless families living in poverty. Some were living in tractor trailer carriages with only a few holes cut open for windows. While others were living in houses that most people would consider not even big enough to store their cars. It was very eye opening to see the diversity within two blocks of each other. The people of the island were very ... read more