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DOUG’S RETIREMENT TRAVEL BLOG
65: time to hit the road
I retired. Twice. The first time in 2022, without Leslie; the second time in 2024, with her. Maybe this time it’ll stick.
Several discreet trips; each is a category. You can select one below to see it specifically, or just walk through. They're in reverse chronological order.
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2024 Dec #2: California!
Back home to California for the month of December. 12/21 Usual astonishing fare at Mark & Karisa’s in Lafayette to pick up the children...
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Dec 311 min read
2024 Dec #1: Munich
We flew home from Munich; spent an afternoon and night there pre-flight. Munich is very different from Berlin: smaller, cleaner. Wanna...
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Dec 28, 20241 min read
2024 Nov #12: Uschi in Horb
…and the next day, we all left. The kids to the airport to fly home, we to the train station to go to a small town called Horb to visit a...
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Dec 26, 20241 min read
2024 Nov #11: children
Adrienne arrived on the 23rd, bringing the total Berlin Bergh quota to 4. Here we are in Markthalle Neun, suggested by August: This was...
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Dec 18, 20241 min read
2024 nov #10: Teufelsberg
Teufelsberg is a Cold War era US spy station atop the highest peak in or around Berlin - a massive mound of the rubble from the WWII...
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Dec 2, 20241 min read
2024 Nov #9: August
August arrived Nov 19. Strolling Prenzlauer Berg we discovered a nice French crepe spot: And a very chic looking health club: …and yet...
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Dec 2, 20241 min read
2024 Nov #8: Mauerfall 35
Nov 9 turns out to be a big day in Berlin, lots of historical events happened on that date. One is the fall of the wall in 1989. So...
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Nov 23, 20241 min read
2024 Nov #7: Prenzlauer Berg
Leslie had a hair appointment today, in Prenzlauer Berg. I dropped her off and strolled: Later in the afternoon we went to a photo...
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Nov 23, 20241 min read
2024 Nov #6: Filmmuseum
Had something of a surreal experience today. There's a film museum in a modern building on Potsdamer Platz. The entrance is confusing -...
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Nov 23, 20241 min read
2024 Nov #5: Kreuzberg
Kreutzberg is huge & many-faceted. Today we stumbled across a canal with a walking/biking path & had a nice stroll: Followed by the...
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Nov 23, 20241 min read
2024 Nov #4: Bunker
Had a heavy history lesson yesterday & today. There are several above-ground bunkers scattered about Berlin, built hastily when it...
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Nov 23, 20241 min read
2024 Nov #3: Berlin Mitte
Spent some time walking around the Mitte kietz, where most of the famous landmarks & monuments are. The Spree river cuts through the...
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Nov 23, 20241 min read
2024 Nov #2: klezmer @ the symphonie
There’s a vine growing attached to the wall behind the hinter hoff, we see it every time we leave or arrive. There’s a famous Klezmer...
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Nov 23, 20241 min read
2024 Nov #8-1/2: The Ordeal
Something of a disappointing week. Root canal, allergic reaction to antibiotic, bleeding ulcer, four days in the hospital. Tl;dr Fri...
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Nov 15, 20245 min read
2024 Nov #1: Kreuzberg
Afternoon outing to Kreuzberg, through Victoriapark, which is a beautiful big park, to Bergmannstraße, one of our favorites, several...
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Nov 15, 20241 min read
2024 Oct #15: Spandau
Took a long S-Bahn ride out to Spandau, an old village on the outskirts of Berlin. It has a Citadel, built originally in the 12th...
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Nov 2, 20241 min read
2024 Oct #14: Kreuzberg
Stumbled on an outdoor market in Kreuzberg, at the Maybach Ufer. Ufer is the bank of a river or canal; in this case a canal. Turns out...
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Nov 2, 20241 min read
2024 Oct #13: Mitte
After Deutsch class in Wittenberg Platz, we walked through the Tiergarten to Oranienburger Tor. The wind was up; the leaves are falling:...
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Oct 30, 20241 min read
2024 Oct #12: Potsdam
Out to Potsdam. We’d seen the town center already (post oct #6), so we rented bikes to see the surrounding area:
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Oct 30, 20241 min read
2024 Oct #11: Wannsee
Friday, nice weather (high ~60), took the S1 out to the southwest suburb of Wannsee. It’s an affluent suburb on the shores of a wide...
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Oct 30, 20241 min read
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