Tag: Europe 2017

Sorry about the few days of radio silence there.  Did the Anne Frank house which was emotionally draining to say the least, then loooong travel day, then day in the apartment melting, then a day at the deutsches museum (interesting but all technology stuff which is so not my thing, there wasn’t a dead thing in sight can you believe…..)

Today did two old churches, the Fraunkirche and the church of St Peter (pictured).  Climbed the tower at the second church to get a view of Munich and the Alps in the distance, then lunch at a delicious Italian place, wandered an old cemetery, then found the place on the river where the surfers hang out.  Bet you didn’t know Munich is famous for its surfing.

Yesterday we visited a town that totes itself as the “Venice of the North”.  Totally pedestrianized, and most “streets” were actually canals to boat around on!  Found yummy honey scented soap, four different cats, dogs, and cows.  Took a boat ride through the town and into the fields around it, chased ducks, wandered into various tourist traps, it was great.

Also got caught out in the afternoon rainstorm, got completely soaked, and I parked the boat like a pro.  Yep.

Amsterdam royal zoo yesterday!  Lots of very open, multi-species exhibits.  I’d never seen a baby elephant, nutria, snowy owls, or red ruffed lemurs in person before.  There were snowy owlets, and the lemurs were in a free range area so you could get right up close to them.  Also entertaining, they had raccoons and skunks and prairie dogs on exhibit and I heard more than a few people cooing over how cool they were.  Chimpanzees, griffon vultures, cormorants, an enormous nile crocodile–it was a good day.

Also hit up the micropia museum, was interesting, but I could’ve lived without the reminder of just how many microbes live on me.  Ick.