Barbara Thompson

Our hotel shuttled us to the train station at 8:30. I got about 4 hours of very warm sleep last night, and dreamt that I fell asleep on the train and ended up in Portugal. Keith says our train terminates before that (oh, it terminated all right), so I would be fine. Mike and Mary […]

On one hand we have been gone for 6 months; on the other hand, we have been gone 6 minutes. It doesn’t feel possible that today was the last day of the band tour. Oof! We were somewhere in Germany this morning and we had a great breakfast. That has really been a thing during

We were early on the road this morning, gliding through the German countryside, learning about the different regions from Joachim. He is a font of information. I know we were listening, then we were sleeping. There is a lot of crud going around – Keith woke up coughing and coughing and is just not feeling

We visited the two walled cities of Germany today. First, Dinkelsbühl. Keith and I walked around on our own and admired the old. We went to a church with a fancy skeleton. Someone stole the fancy skeleton’s leg in 2010. Who does that? Mike says it happens and the people put it on display in

Nope, not playing chess. The day started with a trip to Neuschwanstein. WhooHooo! I do not think I am a fan of Neuschwanstein because it looks like a Disney castle. I think I am a fan of Disney castles because of Neuschwanstein. When I was packing, I paged through the dress section of the closet

Today was the big bus ride of the trip. Here is our bus driver, Oskar, and our tour guide, Joachin. Oskar is from Bavaria and was representing today! Joachin is not, but he was game to fit in. We had four hours from Czech woods to the Bavarian forest. The bummer part of that is

We visited Želeč, a small town in Czech Republic, today – for the third time. Someone (I have been working on understanding the web that connects all of the players in the band – who knows who and how each player got invited to play with the band) knows a great guy named Mike, who

We are doing pretty well with jet lag – as in we feel fine until we blink too long, then we are asleep. Keith slept during the trip to Meissen – still getting a bit better every day – and I woke up when we got there, not having planned to blink so long. Our

We enjoyed our final breakfast in Berlin and headed down the road to Leipzig. Keith is feeling better, but not all better, so he slept on the bus. The sun was shining hard in the back window of the bus and I was draping things over my head to try to keep from roasting until

We started with a city tour. Well. No. We started with day 2 of the best hotel breakfast buffet. I enjoyed the chocolate course to begin, then discovered Tomato Paprika cream cheese and focused the rest of my meal on that. Oh my good! Then we went on a city tour. We walked through the