Sunday, March 22, 2009
Pictures from Germany
I flew to Zurich last night because I have business in southern Germany, in the vicinity of Tuttlingen, a pretty town near the source of the Danube where most of the world's top quality surgical instruments are manufactured. My colleagues and I drove along the Danube for a couple of hours this afternoon, stopping along the way to see the sights...
Modern German headstones are more creative and ornate than those you see in the United States...
10 Comments:
By 
Viking Kaj, at
Sun Mar 22, 11:28:00 AM:
My relatives live in Trossingen close by Tuttlingen, so I am fairly familiar with that stretch.
If you like the blues then Trossingen is of note, since it is where they make Hohner harmonicas.
By 
, at
Sun Mar 22, 11:33:00 AM:
I don't know whether to be envious of your globe trotting lifestyle or glad I get to almost always sleep in my own bed.
By TigerHawk, at
Sun Mar 22, 12:41:00 PM:
It has its pros and cons, but I get the sense that DEC does it a lot better than I do.
By Unknown, at
Sun Mar 22, 02:43:00 PM:
It is a small world. I stayed in Tuttlingen recently while visiting Talheim where my great grandmother was born before leaving for America. We were surprised at what good condition the graveyards and headstones were in but were a little shocked to hear it was because they periodically relocate the remains in order to accommodate the expansion of the church buildings.
By D.E. Cloutier, at
Sun Mar 22, 03:34:00 PM:
TH: "I get the sense that DEC does it a lot better"
One morning, after a night of consuming nothing stronger than coffee, I woke up and couldn't remember the name of the country outside my hotel window.
"Gee, this place looks familiar," I thought.
I didn't want to call the front desk and ask, "What country is this?"
And so, I sat quietly in a chair.
A few minutes later, somebody shoved a copy of the Jakarta Post newspaper under my door.
I was in Indonesia.
DEC
By AmPowerBlog, at
Sun Mar 22, 05:38:00 PM:
Oh, I'm envious! Thanks for sharing!
By Escort81, at
Sun Mar 22, 09:26:00 PM:
That's when you know you've been on the road a bit too long, DEC. Not knowing where you are when you wake up in the morning is a disconcerting feeling.
Anyway, take that river about 400+ miles south and east, cross under the Ersebet bridge in Budapest, hang a left and go about a mile east on Rackoczi ut., and you are in the neighborhood where my mother grew up. Things actually were pretty good there in the late 1920s, according to the stories she told and the photographs that I still have. That said, she was pretty happy to move here and become a U.S. citizen.
By Christopher Chambers, at
Sun Mar 22, 09:58:00 PM:
Bring me back some surgical instruments...
FYI Flynn, "No Neck" Schoeffler and Mike Frachilla joined me in DC this weekend. We discussed TH blog. lol
By D.E. Cloutier, at
Sun Mar 22, 10:39:00 PM:
Escort81: "been on the road a bit too long"
For a number of years I went around the world every month. I spent 22 days outside the U.S. each time.
However, one of my worst trips was a few years later. I flew from Bangkok, to Singapore, to Amsterdam, to New York, to Paris, to Cairo in about 60 hours. I had quick meetings at each airport and I had no time to check into hotels.
Fortunately, I seldom have to rush from place to place when I travel these days.
DEC
By davod, at
Sun Mar 22, 11:12:00 PM:
While you are in Europe could you try to get this interpreted?
Obama's love letter to Chirac? or not
