550 KMS on the bus today. We passed 3 borders along the way. We were lucky and not asked to stop at any of them. We took a break on the way to Budapest in the city of Batslavia where we had lunch on a terrasse. It was fun people watching as I ate. After lunch we strolled about marvelling at the different stores . I did not realize we would actually be in this country! It is bordered by Hungry, Austria, Cezch Rep. It is on the Danube River and has alot of Communist History. It did not join the Cezch Rep. The bridge across the Danube river at this junction had a viewing tower above the span. Never saw this on a suspension bridge before. Lots of activity as well on the river. Statues ... read more

Cannot upload photos. Boo HOO. Wahhhhhhhhhhhh.. We started off innocently enough today. We met the tour group last night at an arranged dinner. We are 41 people in all. Most are retired. Sign of things to come. After about an hour and half we stopped at a road side watering hole just accross the border from Germany. Unbeknownest to me and the others on the bus, when we finished our do-do, after we flushed, we were subjected to a show of a flushing toilet we never experienced before. As the toilet flushed and arm was pushed out over the toilet seat and that arm grabbed hold of the toilet seat and began spinning the actual toilet seat around, cleaning it. the toilet seat deformed into an oval and reformed back to its original shape. It was ... read more

I am learning new words today. Da means yes, Ausfarht: Exit, Einsfarht, Entry. I kept seeing what I thought were the exits named for a town called Ausfarht and I nievely thought it meant the name of the town. Shhhhhesh. Ausfarht (fart) Lol They use a lotta dirty words here I think. Last time I was here they had a bus company name called "fucker" now they changed it to fuecker because they were getting a bad rap. Well, Duh. Lol.... First stop, Chinese buffet. ????? I know, I know, I caved in. Sigh......Not as many choices as I hoped but it was fun watching Asians speak German. Ha Ha Ha... Off we went to Dusseldorf to play in the stores. Bernd and I went to the IT stores and the girls hit the clothing shops. ... read more

Off we go to Germany. We started out the day going back to where we were 8 Years ago in a village called Neukirchen. ( New church) Unfortunately , most of the pics are at a higher resolution then that is allowed on this website, so I can only load ones that are under 8megs. Immediately Bernd and I got back into the car to pick up some booze. We went to an outlet in the middle of nowhere and purchased some wine representative of Germany. One was a red wine which actually resembles a white wine in that it is white, but it is a red!. Hmmmmmm... Must try it out. Yum. After supper we toured the village and waved to alot of locals. it was interesting in that the history being explained dated back ... read more

We hi-tailed it out of Edinborough to catch the Rabbi 2 day tour to Loch Ness and Inverness. We decided to make this a fun bus ride regardless on how dull the other vacationers were. We had a plan. First we would sit up front and try to dominate the conversation. Step one complete. Bernd has a good voice. The bus driver, Johnathan was animated and regalled us in stories of old. On the bus it was a mixed bunch of young and old, Asian and Indian and German , and American. etc.... Our first stop was again an old broken down castle. Followed by a sleep. That was me. The wife listened intently and watched the animated show of the bus driver while he was driving. His hands were every where but the steering wheel. ... read more