Yesterday we said our goodbyes to those who had become our neighbors on the cruise, and to each other. The Wife and I and Ann had the earlier flights with different stopovers. Terri left later. Breakfast at the hotel was rushed because of the time of our flight. It was the first time I had […]
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We spent the morning on a bus tour of Berlin. Berlin is not a particularly old city by European standards, but it is even younger in appearance because it was essentially rebuilt after World War II. At the same time, Berlin is very old for its age. It has enough history in the last one-hundred years
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Today, as we traveled from Wittenberg to Berlin we also traveled forward in time from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth century as follow the Reformation forward in time. We drove north from Wittenberg to Worlitz Palace and Gardens, which were created by Duke Leopold III of Anhalt-Desault (1740 to 1817) after returning from a
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Our big day had finally arrived. We were sitting in the lounge at 8:30 a.m. waiting for the cruise director to call our group to board the bus to Wittenberg. I had spent about an hour in the Word earlier in the morning and was prepared for the day. Now, I was itching with anticipation. I
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We left Dresden early this morning and arrived in Meissen by 8:00 a.m. If you know porcelain, you know of Meissen. And if you know me, you know I wasn’t going on the porcelain excursion. Nothing against porcelain, but I am on a Luther quest. So, while the other members of GSB team reverted to
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It is 6:12 p.m and I am finally sitting down to write. Actually, I’m writing while the gals and our new friends from Australia (we met them yesterday at lunch) are talking around me. So, if this post is no good, you will know why. Hemingway never had to put up with such distractions. Ann
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The Elbe River has its origin in the Krkonoše Mountains on the northwest border of the Czech Republic and ends in the North Sea. It’s the Elbe that will carry us to our prized destinations of Torgau and Wittenberg over the next few days. Extending their hegemony to the Elbe was a goal of the
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Following the death of Jan Hus, the Hussite movement continued to gain strength spreading into other parts of Bohemia (now the Czech Republic). The Hussites were the majority in Prague and in Bohemia for nearly two hundred years after Hus. Sometimes those who are His are many and sometimes they are few, but whenever they
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Our only excursion today was to the Lobkowicz Palace. The Lobkowicz family can trace their roots to the 14th century. They have survived the Thirty Years War, the fall of the Holy Roman Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Nazis, and the Communists. In the process they became patrons of the arts and amassed one of the
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We had originally planned to journey away from Prague to some Hus sites, but given the problems I wrote about yesterday, we had to retrace our steps. We started by trying to find Bethlehem Chapel. Our tour guide had given us the impression it was too far away to find in a five-hour tour; in
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