We took a morning boat tour on the Vitava River in Prague. It was a gorgeous morning, and I was able to photograph some cormorant (birds) with my telephoto. As soon as the tour started, I had a flashback to my college days. They were playing Smetna’s Moldau over the speaker system and it reminded…
I walked 13,170 steps today – and that was with a tram pass. We covered a lot of ground today. We walked across the Charles bridge again and rode a tram down and back across the river and then another one up and around to the backside of the castle and walked down. Prague Tip:…
Day 8, Tuesday, October 15th – We spent a peaceful morning in the Freiberg Germany Temple. of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This temple holds special significance for Dave because he served a 2-year mission for our church in the Western part of Germany and Switzerland in the 70’s before the Berlin…
Picturesque Lavender Farm We stayed the night at a Lavender Farm in Gorny, Poland (what used to be Ober Schönfeld, Germany). Our accommodations were nice and comfortable, and I had fun this morning walking around the lavender plants and taking photos. Revisiting Cemeteries Then, we went back to the Protestant Cemetery in Krasnik-Dolny because Dave…
We arrived in Poland late the previous night around 7:30 p.m. (Poland time). We stayed out in the country in a little village called Krasnik-Dolny, Poland (formerly Nieder Schöfield, Bunzlau, Silesia Germany). This is where David’s great-grandmother “Granny Geerdts” aka Bertha Starke Geerdts lived before migrating by ship to the United States as a young…
Day 5 (Saturday) Falkenberg, Germany — David received so much information on his Kuhns line from the Falkenberg church he hadn’t had a chance to read through it all. He had planned to leave studying the research until we got home, but the night before the day we would be leaving Falkenberg, he kept feeling…
The tinkling of delicate windchimes dangling from my front porch are an auditory companion to the invisible breeze that brushes my cheeks. I marvel at the fuchsia roses with their indigo auras that still bloom on the opposite side of the white porch rail. The vivid green of new leaves contrast with the dried, shriveled…
October 11, 2024 (Falkenberg, Germany) — We spent this day with the Rasp family. Gerhard Rasp is a distant cousin of Dave’s through his Mark line. Gerhard’s ancestor was a sibling of Viktoria Mark who married Johann Kuhns. The couple immigrated to Wisconsin in the 1800’s from Falkenberg, Germany. We love the Rasps. They are…
