Well yes I’m in Singapore (via San Francisco) for work and literally going around the world in 9 days. We are here for a couple of meetings Sun-Tues and I definitely need 2 days to get acclimated and the start of time zone adjustment period started. it’s 14 hours vs home so anything to improve is good. The trip door to door was almost exactly 24 hours, strange to leave Wednesday a.m. and arrive Thursday p.m. but all good.
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Well Saturday was our last day in Interlaken and we made the most of it starting with Gavin and I doing a paragliding ride from the top of the hill (3,000 ft higher) down to town. We then proceeded to find a great hike along a lake and finished above the town at a dinner that ended in a rain storm. Now sitting at the hotel in Munich, Gavin is back in Berlin to start his internship and we’re flying back to Denver / Raleigh.
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Ok, yesterday was a bit crazy, we were in the wave of tourists that have arrived since Thursday was a bank holiday and the weather has turned nice (75-80F) – so yesterday we spent the day hiking, training, busing, ski cable car riding to the top and back down. It’s pretty crazy destination as it was the featured spot in James Bond: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service – and the building at the top is where we ended up.
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Well yesterday we took a pretty cool touristy excursion on the lake that we are basically staying on. Interlaken is very touristy spot, if you want to buy an expensive watch in Switzerland this could be your spot. Lots of tourists walking around (us included), and seemingly a lot of Asians and Indian people as well. We took a paddle wheel boat to a hotel spot on the lake with an amazing waterfall – had lunch and hung out. After taking the boat back, we walked around and ended up having dinner at a local Swiss spot.
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Ok a brief post today, mostly about pictures – we took the train from Salzburg to Interlaken Switzerland yesterday – about 7 hours of train riding to get here, but via Innsbrook Austria – so via the mountains. It was a pretty cloudy and raining passage, but in some places we could see the near tops of the peaks as we rushed by.
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Well the last two days have been pretty fun in and around Salzburg – with mostly rain and cold but occasionally the sun would emerge and offer a glimpse of a warmer place. Cindy coordinated a great cooking class, where we made strudel and pretzel’s – which of course was the best pretzel I’ve ever had.
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Well we successfully mastered taking a one way train to Salzburg, although when we arrived at the train itself we found out that our reserved seats were no longer physically on the train – so ended up moving to the economy section – Hayden found a 1st class seat though. It’s a 1.5 hour train ride from Munich to Salzburg, so pretty simple to get here.
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Well Gavin is now officially 21 years old today, strange thing is exactly 10 years ago we were at Machu Pichu celebrating his birthday. Today, Munich and a tour of the Olympic facilities, BMW museum, walking through a very long festival, and ending with a very nice dinner in the English Garden.
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Well we spent today at the Dachau concentration camp near Munich. An interesting site it was the first concentration camp – targeting political opponents first, and then expanding in scope as time continued. It unfortunately was the ‘model camp’ for how concentration camps should be run/managed.
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Yes we’re back, it’s been a while since posting to the blog. Cindy and I arrived in Munich on Tuesday. Hayden flies in Friday and Gavin is coming down from Berlin (University) on Saturday so we can do a week of family vacation together.
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