Today's grand plans were to go to the Residenz Museum at Residenz Platz and then to Nymphenburg Palace. This morning the weather did not cooperate and it was raining. In fact it rained all day. The only time I wasn't rained on was when I went running at 6:30 in the morning. (By the way Munich is really busy at 6:30 am-- much busier than Dallas.) We took the U-Bahn once again to Odeonsplatz Station where Robyn did what else, took pictures. There are up to three di...

Today was primarily a travel day. Robyn did a little shopping in Heidelberg before we headed to the train station. Our train was not until 1:15 and it was a three hour train trip so we didn't get to our hotel until after 4:30. Nothing thrilling or exciting happened on the trip, no dead bodies, no adolescents screaming 'Scheize' (see 2012 trip train trip from Salzburg to Munich), just a nice calm ride. Our only activity for tonight was going to see Rossini's 'The...

We started the day with a boat tour up the Neckar River to Neckarsteinach where there are four castles over-looking the river and town (by the way have I said how much I love boat tours). This was supposed to be 'a three hour tour... a three hour tour.' I started getting a little concerned when I heard the first mate being called Gilligan, but I never saw a millionaire and his wife. We sat at the front of the boat where Robyn had a good view of the river. It was ...

Today was primarily set aside as a travel day because it was going to take us over 5 hours to get from Ghent to Heidelberg. Consequently, I was not expecting there to be too much to write about. But we are the Johnsons and where we go strange things happen. We started out at the Ghent St Pieters station with a goal to catch the 9:04 train to Brussels Midi station. Of course the boards listing the trains only list the final destination and not any stops in between...

Our trip today is out to Neuschwanstein Castle in the southwestern Bavarian Alps. We booked a tour through Mike’s Bike Tours. The tour is not by bike but includes a bike ride for those who want to participate-- we did not participate. It was a two-hour bus ride that was very comfortable. When we got to the town below Neuschwanstein most of the group left on the bike ride out to Swan Lake. Robyn and I decided to take the gondola to the top of Tegelberg which...