Storytime with Grandpa

Flying

Top o’ the Arch

At the top of the Gateway Arch, St. Louis, Missouri, July 26, 2023.

PBandJandfrench fries

St Regis

Max in the mountains

Flower Watering

Ukrainian Choir

Harvest season!

Solyanka

This is a Russian soup that is popular here in eastern Germany. It’s reminiscent of chili, but with no beans and a different spice profile. Tasty.

An evening walk

A few candles

The Mueller Quartet

Ready for presents

Grammy & Teddy on the Train

Em and India Saturday Cartoons

Wildhaus Holiday

Building across the street

Hugh with his awesome mama

Nathan Strasbourg Cathedral

Pasteries

A selection of yummies from Hewn.

The whole gang at the beginning of the adventure

Our trip to Europe with our children in 2006

Playing chess at the “tower” library

Lichtfest Leipzig

At the Waterford Crystal factory

Kristallnacht Memorials

Mosaic

Falstaff Curtain Call

MLK Center

Beverley Minster

Wildflowers everywhere in the Alps

We built a car

Beethoven String Quartet

These instruments were given to Beethoven ~1800.

Reggia La Venaria Reale

Sognefojord

Sternwheeler Fun

Piper and the Pink Blanket

Kylemore Abbey

Teddy Giggles

Staying Warm Near the Fire at the Christmas Market

On the Moon

Not as crowded as Abbey Road

Piper cropped

Music salon at the Mendelssohn House

Jana & Hugh

Grandpa & Teddy Arch

Nathan and Teddy at the Gateway Arch.

On the Bergbahn

Bloody Foreland

Piper in the Red Dress

A new Erfurtian friend (kid’s show character called Bernd das Brot or “Bernard the Bread”)

The new living room

Monument to the Battle of Nations

Hill of Tara

The Last Supper

at the Gewandhaus Leipzig

Thomas the Tank Engine Story Time

The Crazy House

Colosseum

The Big Fish, Belfast

On the Camino

Hughman

Paganini

Archie

Currywurst

I mentioned this one in another post. Classic street food. It’s a sausage, warmed and sliced, topped with a spicy ketchup.

Huck Slippin’ & Slidin’

Gutenberg Mainz

Sarah & Poppy and Bran Castle

So many Steps

Max

Demonstrating a proper bow hold, Max is eagerly awaiting the go-ahead from the doctor so he can play the violin again.

Personalized Toblerone care of Cousin Simon

Opera House in Wiesbaden

Huck: Ready For Adventure

Black Forest Hike

Cocoa Time

Teddy & Pumpkin

Öeschinensee

Benagil Cave

N&J-at-Wawel

Merchant’s Bridge, Erfurt

Street Art Dresden

Museum del Jamòn – AKA a Spanish place of worship

Carters Vintage Guitars

Christmas Morning

Nathan & Jill in the Frankfurt Altstadt

Photography Reality

At the Hagia Sophia

Muscle Shoals Studio

Bell Canyon Hike

Rhein Hike

Interlaken

Falafel Bowl

There is a sizeable Turkish population here in Germany because of waves of migration over different decades and centuries. Döner Kebab places are everywhere here–kind of like fast food places in the U.S. We love these places for a salad or a veggie-packed bowl or sandwich. Always so good. Falafel is yum.

Dave & Kathy Langr

Walensee

General Rufus Putnam, Nathan’s 3rd cousin, 8 times removed

Carrick-a-Rede suspension bridge

Matterhorn

Huck ready for Legoland

Mt. Chocolate

Margaret, India, Hugh, & Archie

Teddy PlayDoh

The Good Ship Goethe

Jared doing a handstand at the top of the Üetliberg a la Grosspapi

Huck and Piper on the river trail

Liszt’s Silent Travel Piano

Nathan at Dunmore Head

Moravian Stars

Huck & Peter

Charlemagne Chess

At The Oper Leipzig

Cathedral Kõln

St. John’s College, Oxford

Torc Waterfall, Killarney NP

Hugh Smiles

Cotswolds cuteness

Liszt’s Salon

Parm

Peter in the Gravel Pit

Traffic Jam

Laber Summit

At the Studebaker Theater

Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!

Guarneri

Boys in the Back

Lunch Crew

Jill at the Palace

Almost Heaven, the Bauserman place inWest Virginia

Piper Riding the Little Train

Tower Bridge

Albert Schweitzer Statue, Strasbourg

School of Music

Teddy

Harbor, Stockholm

Sculpture in the Park

I love this one, because depending on my mood the figure has a different meaning. Is it sad? lonely? wistful? just cold?

Lauren

Verdi Requiem

Sad Subie

Sibelius Monument

Weenie Roast

Halle und Handel

Don’t you love Colonial Era Headstones?

Beautiful Canals Strasbourg

Santiago de Compostela

Jill, Lake Bled

Dome and Rubble from Frauenkirche

N & J in Zagreb

Goofy McGoofball

SweetArthur

Parade Route

A Rainy Hike in South Tyrol

Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon

BMW

Breakfast (Frühstuck)

Yogurt with müsli and beautiful fresh fruit is a super popular item on cafe menus. I don’t have a photo, but another yummy breakfast is a Käse Frühstuck: bread and all kinds of yummy cheeses.

Next Purchase…A Bigger Bike for Nathan

Nathan and his new purchase

Peter in the Discovery Room

Piping hot hand brot

Müsli for breakfast

Peter & Pumpkin

Nathan atop Gowbarrow Fell, Lake District

Aqueduct – Segovia, Spain

Lego!

Pfefferkuchen Museum

Yummy

Grandma and Teddy

Monument to the Battle of Nations

Big Gator Friend

Nathan and the Archangel

Thorvaldsen’s Christus

Bob, Jill, Jana, and Torr

Happy Halloween!

Berchtesgaden From Above

Little Gator Friend

Huck and Piper

Utah Symphony

Putnam House

Nathan and Lauren

Leipzig Zoo gate

Charlemagne’s Throne

Constantine statue in York

Tuckered

Gone Fishin’

Nathan with a statue of Pablo de Sarasate in Pamplona

Enoch

Dinner in Konstanz

Irish beauty

Berliner Dom and the Radio Tower

Peter

Italian Hot Chocolate

Ciocolata calda is basically a chocolate bar melted in hot milk. You are pretty much drinking ganache. Yum!

Light Monkeys at Leipzig Zoo

Skjolden

Piper and a Lego friend

Chicago Theatre

Hamburg

Teddy loves to swing!

At the Schloss Kyborg

Dessert

We only order dessert if it’s really going to be amazing. This was worth it! Flourless chocolate cake with gelato and fresh fruit. (Yes, I ate all the fruit.) The round yellow fruit with the wild leaves is a kind of gooseberry that they use a lot as a dessert garnish.

Tower Bridge, Tower of London, Thames

Laziz with Emily and Kevin

Poppy with th Hagenbuch cat

Muellers and Parrishes

Empanadas

This was our appetizer for an amazing steak dinner we had in Krakow.

Seealpsee

Teddy loves Ice Cream!

Climbing Croagh Patrick

Huck in the Woods

Bright and Shiny Elizabeth Tower

Cross of Nails

Chagall Windows

Unterwelten Tour

It looks like we are touring a bathroom…but this is an unused part of the underground station. It was the only place we could take photos.

Painting Teddy

Painting is an adventure!

Grand Ole Opry

Merry-Christmas

Mission Concepcion

Belfast City Hall

New Orleans–Jackson Square

Alter Elbtunnel

Swiss Alarm Clock

Currywurst

St. Elisabeth, Wartburg

Duomo Roof

Bridge of Sighs, Oxford

Hugh Linnell

Alte Oper, Frankfurt

Derwentwater, Lake District

Nathan & Jill at the Frankfurt Alte Oper

Our curly girl

On the Trail

Alex and Teddy

Sunken Trace

Muddy Buddy

Grianan of Aileach ring fort

Alexander Nevsky Cathedral

Peter on the ‘rain

Dragon Huck

Castle on the Rhein

Collect ’em all!

Teddy’s The King of The Swingers

Adam showing us the ropes in Nashville

Kinsale

Heavy Metal Trumpet

At Whitney Plantation

Nathan at Langafoss

Piper & Grammy

Simon, Poppy’s newest fan

House of Blues

Sword in the Stone

Beethoven

Please appreciate the bird.

Christmas PJs

With the girls (and one English boy)

Kayaking the Thünersee

Siena

Teddy & the Tram Car

Teddy testing out a tram car.

Workin’ at the Ball Factory

Nathan and Leo

Lake Bled

Giotto Last Judgement

Nephew Michael

Erfurt, by the Dom and St. Severus

San Antonio Skyline

A Hike to Slieve Martin

Nikolaikirche

Liguria

Paddington Bear

Circuit de Pineta

Gate at Buchenwald

With the Emerald Princess

The Vasa

Boys from Liverpool

Umbria

Cesky Krumlov

University of Cork, Stone Corridor

Peter

Wolfach

Just a Drop of Maple Sap

Gewandhaus

Nathan with Paganini’s violin in Genova

Huck & Piper Bikes

Huck and Hugh

Brat & Brotchen

Classic street food and the most German thing that we have eaten. Not only is it great for grabbing on the go, but it’s an easy thing for us have at home too.

Ohio River Trail

Teddy

Pyramid!

Mendelssohn House concert

Rome

On the Bike Trail

Guys and Dolls

Swinging Peter

At the Chocolarium

Viking Gangplank

Cervantes, Don Q, & Sancho

Cathedral, Kristiansand

Nathan on the Heidelberg Altbrucke

On the move again

Time for a show

Alpine Cow

Rucking in Mueller Park

World of Coke

Huck & Piper

Auschwitz-Gate

At-the-Park

Children’s Museum

Chocolate, anyone?

Nathan-Studying-on-the-Train

Colorado Rockies

Nathan & Poppy at Rheinfall

Beatlesplatz

OMSI with El and Adia

Old Town, Tallinn

Huck digs it

Organ played by Bach

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Tower Grove Park in St. Louis

Mozart’s Birthplace

At the Bastei

Piper, Hugh, & Huck

Austrian Alps

Royal Opera House

Teddy Pilot and Peter Pirate

Sleepy Hugh

Vanilla!

Down the stairs to the tunnel

Cathedral Dome , Siena

Hugh Linnell

Nathan in London

Tortelli d’erbetta in Parma

Liz & Christian at the Schilthorn

Nathan in London

Inside the Völkerschlachtdenkmal

Emery & the Little Big Band

The Vippefyret

Lunch in Lausanne

We met our nephew, Kimball, and his mission companion for lunch.

Sorrento

Our trip to Europe with our children in 2006

Spanish Steps

Blossoms on the Hill — we can see many trees in bloom from the kitchen window

Grieg Haus

On our bike ride in Waterford

Christmas Oratorio at the Thomaskirche

This is the same place the Christmas Oratorio was premiered.

Peter Playing Choo-Choos

I Went Down to the Crossroad

Jill and Space Rock

Kastellet – Copenhagen

Concert

Time with Emily and Kevin ❤️

Night One, Rome

August Snow Storm

Inside Benagil Cave

Apples in the Garage

The Ohio Company Land Office

Sushi

Last week we took a little day trip to a nearby town called Machern. On our way back, we stopped at a little Vietnamese restaurant and had various things. Here is the yummy sushi and sashimi.

Civita

Milan Cathedral

Kayaking

All-Terrain Archie

A Day at the Park

Hugh Linnell

River Cruise

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Alpine Beauties

Ebenezer Baptist

Jared on the Schilthorn

Piper & Grammy

Beatles Museum

Peter is too cute!

Restaurant in the trees?

Piper with a cookie

Kilkenny Castle

Memorial at Buchenwald

Last Concert in Leipzig

Max Violin

Jill at the Finnish Market

Castle Game

Family Fun

Chopin-Concert

A Day in Bern

Erfurt, by the Dom and St. Severus

Nobody Expects THE Michael Palin!

Genova

Birthday Candle

Derry from the Peace Bridge

Wartburg Castle courtyard

Finally looking like Autumn

Augustusplatz “Ice Dream” Festival

It’s basically the Christmas Market, but for winter, with a big skating rink in the middle and Valentines hanging from lighted trees.

Nathan – Copenhagen

Bern Clock

On the Üetliberg

Paulinum Church

Red Rocks

Some of the great entertainment on the ship: James Doughty

Fish Market, Kristiansand

Peter & Teddy Bikes

Salmon in Siena

Gelato (caffe + nocciola and dark chocolate + salted caramel)

Eggs Benedict

We love some tasty eggs. Sauces here are often filled with fresh herbs.

Cathedral Depictions

At the monster park

Our trip to Europe with our children in 2006

Our Shack–The Crossroad

Salle at Schumann House

Mozart Playmobil

Hiking the Seven Hanging Valleys

Weekend in Atlanta

Schneeballen

Lighthouse and the “Teepot” cafe – Rostock

At the Zoo

Liz with Aunt Margrit

At the Panorama

Nathan on the upper observation deck of the panorama in Wittenberg.

Christmas Decorations Everywhere

Can’t get enough Alps

A snack for the train

When we are catching an early train, we will often stop at a bakery for a bite for the journey. This was a tasty ham and cheese pretzel (brezel).

Beautiful Torino

Mendelssohn Haus

Crawling Peter

Nathan and the String Quartet

These instruments were given to Beethoven ~1800.

Waterfall in the Pyrenees

Little Trabant car at Augustusplatz

Market in Leipzig featuring chickie nug nug

Nathan Paradise

A Prairie Home Companion

Up the Beanstalk

Trieste Roman Amphitheater

Our Missouri Loves

A Tribute

Cooking Pot at Dunfanaghy Workhouse

Skyline

Kayak Jill

Nathan in the Pyrenees

With the ship

Happy Independence Day!

Civita, a town on a hill that is crumbling and dying, but so pretty!

Gutenberg Museum

Maxim Vengerov

Dragon Piper

Big chess in Salzburg

Daytrip to Wiesbaden

Tower Bridge

Rheinfall

Raclette

Ok, Swiss family! We found a raclette restaurant in Krakow. There was just one guy running the place, but this was so delicious. For the uninitiated, raclette cheese comes in a giant wheel. They put the sliced surface under a broiler and then scrape off the melted portion onto a slice of bread. And it comes with good pickles, which was refreshing. Don’t get me started on the abomination that is German pickles.

A wet day in Konstanz

Emerald Princess, Rostock

Galleria Grande

Vickburg Battlefield

Hadrian’s Wall

In-the-Mine

Schlafzimmer

Jill in Chicago

A mural on our food tour in Uptown.

Royal Albert Hall

Luzern Kapellbrücke

Wartburg

Piper in the Creek

Shakespeare’s birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon

Salt-Mine-Sculpture

Teddy & friend

Nathan at the Irish Pub in Leipzig

Adriatic Sunset

The finished cookies

Nathan’s sister, Liz, and her husband, Christian

Egyptian Cows

The street where we live…for now

At a Concert Schumann House

Cavern Club

Happy New Year

Arthur

Teddy and Bubbles

Huck’s adventure in the woods

Silver Lake

Teddy & Peter at train night

Archie

Fun Uncle Nathan

Jill in Nooksia National Park, waiting for her mushroom soup lunch

Nathan, Poppy, & Liz

Guggenheim Bilbao

Stasi Museum

Ohio River Trip

The Door; Wittenberg

Bach’s Tomb Thomaskirche, Leipzig

Computer Games

Zephyr at the Science Museum

Putnam Bridge

Erfurt

River Po, Torino

A Room With a View

Max and Margaret

Eiger, Mönch, Jungfrau

Commuist Mural in Dresden

Nathan & Teddy, August 1, 2023

Making chäschüechli

Finnish folkloric show

Nathan & Max

Beatles Chess

Bern Switzerland Temple

Snowy Pond

Grotto

At the summit

Peter and the “rains”

At the Transportation Museum

Alex and Teddy

Salumeria

Another Mediterranean “bits and pieces” meal at a local salumeria–a lot like tapas, but Italian. With a little basket of bread and a salad, a plate like this is surprisingly filling and oh so good.

Peter with his new Duplo

Goulash (gulyás)

Another dish we fell in love with in 2019. We found this goulash at an Irish pub.

Mt. Etna

Star Wars Poster

Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Sunrise at sea

Thrill Walk, Birg

The street where we live…for now

Boarding in Leipzig

Sleepy Pete

Norway!

Altes Rathaus (Old Town Hall)

Too cute!

Wartburg

Lago Maggiore

Some of the Clan

The port at work

Teddy by the fountain

Tapas

We fell in love with tapas when we were in Spain for a couple months. We grabbed this tapas meal before a concert. It was so yummy, but the aioli had us tasing garlic for the whole night!

Leipzig Pizza

Algarve Coast

Matt R. Horn

Spot The Famous Castle (Neuschwanstein)

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Great-Niece, Sariah (Lydia’s daughter)

Jill and Nephew Ammon

Sagra Gorgonzola

Rostock, Germany

Luzern

Peter and his Bumpa

Venaria Reale

Amongst the Ferns

Nathan and Brahms

Peter

BBQ

This was a crazy meal that we shared in Erfurt. Pretty authentic and surprisingly good barbeque, with a European flair of course.

Loving Portugal

Cathedral Interior

The Aqueduct – Segovia, Spain

Christmas Eve Nibbles

Stolzenfels Castle over the Rhein

Rostrevor Forest

Spiral Staircase at Schloss Hartenfels, Torgau

Kiddos in Manarola

Our trip to Europe with our children in 2006

Baby Hugh

Luzern

Kilkenny Castle

Pasteries at Hart & Herzlich

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Goethe’s Garden

At the Movies in Munich

Concert At The Gewandhaus

Santa Cruz Sunset

Musicians Hall of Fame

The Band

Charlemagne Reliquary

Reliquaries are often made to look like what they house. This one hold’s Charlemagne’s skull. Charming?

New Year’s Eve

A snowy drive in the Italian Alps

Buskers-in-the-Station

Salzburg Cemetery

Passing under the Great Belt Bridge

Airboat Tour

Pieta Capella degli Scrovegni

The Hikers: Lauren, nieces Emery, India, and nephew Bodhi

At the Airport

Schlôss Gohlis

Dresden Christmas

Ayyyy! The Fonz

X marks the Spot (for treasure? No! the spot where we were!

Niece India and Nephew Bodhi

Denkmal der Begegnung

The Radio Tower and Alexanderplatz

WV wildflowers

Boarding

Monks’ Mound

A Day in Heidelberg

Christmas Market-Berlin

Delta Blues Museum

Stolperstein in our neighborhood

An Ovine friend

Bikers

Enjoying some milder weather, including seeing the sun.

Trieste

Piper at Work

Ice Skating

Nikolaikirche

Jill – Copenhagen

Chester is cool!

Little Buddy Hugh

At the Schloss

In The Dolomites

To Southampton

Brahms Piano

Bay of Kotor

T.Rex

Assisi

At the Cinema Museum

Tacos in Dallas

January ’25

Rock of Cashel

Nuremburg

Positano