Vacations

1980 Europe

France / Belgium / Netherlands /
Germany (including West Berlin) /
Austria / Switzerland - in 18 days

If it's Tuesday, it must be Belgium

Rode the hovercraft across the English Channel to France
Ramsgate to Calais with a rented 12-seat minibus aboard

l'Arc (stayed at the Hotel California-16 Rue de Berri, Paris)

Tour Eiffel - Paris

Tour Eiffel - Paris

The Louvre - Paris

Picking strawberries at the Louvre in Paris

Notre Dame - Paris





Brussels, Belgium - Manneken Pis

Crusing with friends from Amsterdam, Netherlands

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Hotel Schmidt in Othmarschen, Hamburg, Germany

Dinner with Dr. Gommel and family in Hamburg, Germany

Hamburg, Germany

The Alster - Hamburg, Germany

The Alster - Hamburg, Germany

The Alster - Hamburg, Germany

The Elbe River - Hamburg, Germany

We drove through East Germany (including several checkpoints)
to visit West Berlin with our German friends the Strack family.
We took no cameras on the trip.


Rothenburg, Germany on the Tauber River - 1274

Rothenburg, Germany on the Tauber River - 1274

Rothenburg, Germany on the Tauber River - 1274

View from our room at the Goldener Hirsch Hotel in Rothenburg

View from our room at the Goldener Hirsch Hotel in Rothenburg

Dachau

Near our hotel (Schloss St. Rupert) in Salzberg, Austria
Do you hear the sound of music?

Salzberg Cathedral - Austria

Salzberg, Austria

The Rhine River flooding in Oberwesel, Germany
It was a rainy June/July vacation due to Mount St. Helens
blowing its top in the state of Washington on May 18

Our hotel, Schloss auf Schonburg in Oberwesel, Germany

View of the Rhine River from our hotel room in Oberwesel

A castle along the Rhine River in Germany

A castle along the Rhine River in Germany

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