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Back in US

smacneill — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:44:36 -0500

We arrived back in the U.S. on Saturday night and stayed over night in NJ. Sunday morning we left NJ for RI.

We had an amazing time on this trip! Czech Republic is a beautiful country full of culture and history. Sadly, two weeks was not nearly eno ...

Amsterdam, Holland

smacneill — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:55:35 -0500

This morning we left Berlin, Germany and landed in Amsterdam, Holland. We are heading home this afternoon and will be back in U.S. tonight.

Czech Republic was a blast! We celebrated new years in Prague then left early on New Years day. We traveled ...

Happy New Year from Prague, Czech Republic

smacneill — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:08:48 -0500

Happy New Year 2009!!

It is 1:20am in Prague and we just finished celebrating the start of the new year. We started in the Old Town Square and then to Malá Strana. We welcomed the new year from Mánesův most which is the bridge directly north of ...

Prague, Czech Republic

smacneill — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:37:48 -0500

Yesterday we left Olomouc after watching the astronomical clock chime in 11:00. We traveled to the city of Brno. Brno is the second largest city in Czech Republic. One of the many interesting things to see in Brno is catacombs beneath the Capuchin Monestar ...

Olomouc, Czech Republic

smacneill — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:08:23 -0500

Today we left Litoměřice and stopped in at Terezín to view the old Nazi camp. After leaving Terezín we set out for Moravia. On the way we stopped in at Hrad Trosky (Trosky castle). Hrad Troksy is the setting for many medieval horror movies and art. I h ...

Litoměřice, Czech Republic

smacneill — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 17:52:04 -0500

This morning we left Pilzn and traveled to northern Bohemia. The Czech countryside is beautiful! The landscape changes so quickly from rolling plains to forests, to mountains. You will have green "winter weed" fields one minute and the next you are surroun ...

Pilzn, Czech Republic

smacneill — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 17:49:26 -0500

This morning we left Munich and traveled on the autobahn. This is my first time actually driving myself on the autobahn. It was fun and it is true, there is no speed limit for most of the drive. At one point I was driving 170kmh (105mph) and other cars wer ...

Christmas Day in Munich, Germany

smacneill — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 16:48:12 -0500

Today we had breakfast with our friends and enjoyed a nice chat to start our Christmas day. Then our friend Ortun took us to the Bavarian National Museum where they had a collection of different nativity scenes from Bavaria, Tyrol, Moravia, Naples, Sicily ...

Christmas Eve in Munich, Germany

smacneill — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 04:13:11 -0500

Yesterday we arrived in Munich at 11:15am GMT+1. We walked around Karlsplatz (in the middle of the city) for a while, got something to eat at a small and very friendly cafe then continued to our friends home. After a few hours of chatting and laughing we w ...

2 Days left

smacneill — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:37:15 -0500

We are leaving RI today and heading to NJ where we will catch our flight out tomorrow destined for Berlin. Once in Berlin we will grab a local flight to Munich. We will spend Christmas in Munich with our friend Ortrun and her family.

The drive toda ...