August 14, 2009 at 8:40 am (my life in france)
Tags: food, paris, rain
Sunday, March 22, 1992
Breakfast tacos and services at the American Church. Rain is beginning to fall now. A walk to the Eiffel Tower, enjoying a windy, wet view of the city (but still beautiful). An afternoon visit to the Palace of Versailles for David and Erin and catching up at home for me.
Monday, March 23, 1992
Erin and I dashed, in the midst of pouring rain, to the Notre Dame area to purchase a sweat shirt she had found earlier. Back to David’s office and offo to the airport. Erin’s flight was at 1:30PM. A pleasant end to a good 10 day visit.
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July 7, 2009 at 8:38 am (my life in france)
Tags: touring, train, travel
Sunday, March 15, 1992
David proceeds to the show; Erin sleeps in; and I attended a German church service with the Bokers. In the afternoon Erin and I took the fast train to Hamburg, visting St. Michaels church, the harbor and explored the city.
Monday, March 16, 1992
Erin and I visited HErrenhausen Gardens in Hannover – beautiful displays of cactus, amaryllis, orchids and many other plants. Now it was time to catch up on some shopping. Early dinner at a wonderful restaurant in the city centre and to the house to pack.
Tuesday, March 17, 1992
We leave Hannover 7:40AM on the ICE train to Mannheim, Germany, changing trains and arriving Paris at 5PM.
Wednesday, March 18, 1992
David is back to work in Paris and Erin and I toured Notre Dame, Sarbonne University, Cluny Museum, the Latin Quarter, and the Pompidou area in Paris.
Thursday, March 19, 1992
Bible Study for me; Erin manages to take the train to meet David and they tour the Louve and Orsay Museum.
Friday, March 20, 1992
One day trip for David to London. Erin and I dash off to the market, catch a train to Chartres to visit the beautiful cathedral of Chartres. Absolutely beautiful weather the last few days for touring.
Saturday, March 21, 1992
7AM TGV train to Lausanne, Switzerland and visiting the beautiful Eastern part of France and the Swiss Alps (this time of year covered with lots of snow.) Train from Lausanne to Montreaux to visit the Chateau Chillon, enjoying a picnic lunch at the Chateau park area on Lake Geneva amidst the beautiful Swiss Alps. Just breathtaking! Boarded another train in Montreaux and went to Brig, Switzerland, a little farther into the moutains. Beautiful city and gorgeous scenery. Back to Lausanne to catch our TGV train, arriving Paris Saturday night about 10:30PM.
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June 29, 2009 at 12:39 pm (my life in france)
Tags: exibitor, show, train
Wednesday, March 11, 1992
We took the train to the show and watched as lovely snow began to fall. In the evening a few of us stopped at the huge Bierhalle for a wonderful dinner and listened and danced to the music of 2 German bands.
Thursday, March 12, 1992
I slept in as David proceeded to the show. I drove in later with Mr. Boker. This evening we attended a reception for all the U.S. exhibitors given by the U.S. Ambassador. Very nice party.
Friday, March 13, 1992
David proceeded to the show and I took the ICE (fast) train in the midst of heavy snow to Hamburg, Germany (a very neat port city). Another reception tonight with top officials in Germany at the City Hall. As we leave the show for the City Hall on the tram the sun is shinning; we exit the tram downtown and are greeted by heavy wind and lots of heavy, blowing snow – so much that we could not see the building we were supposed to be going to. But we made it and enjoyed good German food, live music, met more new people and had lots of fun.
Saturday, March 14, 1992
5:30AM train to Dusseldorf, Germany. Erin was waiting there from her journey from the U.S. Back to Hannover to the show and a big party at the Bierhalle for the American exibitors.
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April 21, 2009 at 7:44 am (my life in france)
Tags: germany, show, train, travel
Monday, March 9, 1992
Night train to Hannover, Germany, leaving Paris at 9:35PM and arriving Hannover 8:40AM on Tuesday. This time we have our Eurail passes from the U.S. for much easier traveling. We quickly stashed our luggage into a train station locker and proceeded to set up the booth for the upcoming Cebit ‘92 show. The booth was sponsored in conjunction with the ITRC in Dallas and I was delighted to see Byron Cain there, allowing us to catch up on old times of our work days together.
In the evening (now Tuesday) we gathered our luggage and were driven to the home of Karlheinz and Erika Boker in Garbsen, a suburb of Hannover. They were our guest host family, an older German couple who had traveled in the states; he spike some English and she spoke only German; lovely 3 story home; Karlheinz is a retired President of the Glassworkers Union in Hannover and still a member of parliament; Erika is the Vice Mayor of Garbsen.
Each morning we were treated to a German breakfast and lots of good company in the evenings.
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April 7, 2009 at 11:58 am (my life in france)
Tags: church, friends, party
Sunday, March 8, 1992
Early to church and an early evening baby shower couple’s party of the Young Couples Group at the Church. It was held at Marjo and Mark’s apartment and was lots of fun.
As we exited the metro station (close to the Eiffel Tower area), I said to David that the area really looked familiar. He said he had never been to this side of Paris. But it still looked as though I had been there before. Well, I had. When we walked by a familiar hotel, I realized it was where my Mom, Betty and I had stayed back in July 1989.
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April 6, 2009 at 8:48 am (my life in france)
Tags: dinner, food, golf
Saturday, March 7th, 1992
David’s kneww is much better. He played golf with Ray in the morning, shot a 76. Early afternoon we grilled fajitas, inviting Ray, Maura and Stephanie and Michael Watson. They were great! Not a single one left over.
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April 1, 2009 at 7:43 am (my life in france)
Tags: dinner, paris, shop, train
Sunday, March 1, 1992
9AM train to Paris. This is an all day train, returning to Paris at 10:30PM (exhausted). Lovely dinner in the dining car on the train and beautiful scenery thru Austria and Germany.
Tuesday, March 3, 1992
I decided to drive to Chambourcy to a large grocery store to once again look for charcoal. We are so wanting to grill fajitas. After much looking I found some in the gardening section. Don’t know if it’s self lighting or not and I looked at every can and container in the store, but no luck in finding the lighter.
Well, it’s David’s turn. He decided to look at a camping store on his way home and there it was. Starter in a large tube, gel form.
Wednesday, March 4, 1992
Now, it’s look for fajita meat. We know we have seen some. We bought what looked like skirt steak and will just try our luck.
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March 31, 2009 at 1:20 pm (my life in france)
Tags: piano, tourist, vienna
Saturday, February 29, 1992
Very tourist like day for us. We attended the training sessions for the very famous Lipizzaner horses at the Spanische Reitschule, Josefsplatz, (Spanish Riding School), visited the absolutely beautiful St. Stephens Cathedral, took a horse carriage ride thru Vienna, ate lunch at a fish and chips place, visited the Imperial Palace and had an afternoon snack in the revolving restaurant in the Donauturm Tower overlooking Vienna.
Stores are only open until noon today, including souvenir shops (their one time a month to be open at all on Saturday). Enjoyed the eating of a Wurztel, much like a German sausage and very, very good. Happy hour in the hotel bar listening to a very good piano player.
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March 25, 2009 at 10:01 am (my life in france)
Tags: austria, hotel, park, travel
Friday, February 28, 1992
Arrived Austria at 6:30AM, checked into our hotel overlooking Stratford Park and the Danube River. Quick change and David’s off to his meetings. I rested some more and then checked out the city of Vienna. Now my $1 USD is worth 9 Shillings. Lovely dinner at the Rauchfangkehrer restaurant consisting of delicious wienerschnitzel.
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March 18, 2009 at 10:27 am (my life in france)
Tags: austria, station, train, travel, zurich
Sunday, February 23, 1992
After church we decided we had better put together our income tax information since our French taxes must be prepared by March 2. What an afternoon!
Thursday, February 27, 1992
Early train to Zurich, Switzerland. We arrive at the Paris train station and David’s ticket out of the Metro station would not work?? David turns to go to the ticket window and a nice, French gentleman came back thru and put his ticket in the machine for David to go thru. We board the train early and are approached by a man asking if we speak English.
He has a good story, entertaining, and we listen. “He was with Texas Instruments in Nice, France, for 29 years, lost his briefcase in Paris yesterday and had to sleep on the steps of some building.???” By this time we knew what he was leading up to. “He had been at the police station getting new paperwork so he could return to Nice but needed 35FF for photos??” (In France, you need photos of yourself for everything and photo booths are everywhere). He was smart to go after Americans who could understand the bureaucracy he was going thru and could sympathize with him (if his story was true).
So, David says sure we can spare 35FF ($7 USD) and we are free of this character. Soliciting on the trains and subways is very prevalent. We departed Paris at 8AM, arriving Zurich at 1:30PM. David dashes to this 2PM meeting and I put our luggage in the train station lockers and proceeded to explore the city.
Evening dinner overlooking Lake Zurich consisting of excellent grilled steaks. 7:30PM train to Innsbruck, Austria – an absolutely beautiful train ride thru the snow covered Alps (especially the city of St. Antone, covered with snow). We arrive Innsbruck at 11:20PM, transfer to the next platform, leave at 11:25PM exhausted and most ready for the sleeper train to Vienna, Austria.
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