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Turkey – Is that Asia?
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Today, after about a month of traveling, we finally get on an airplane! Since January 2nd it has only been Uber, Trains, Boats, and Busses. We leave Munich and head for Istanbul and finally Ankara, Turkey! Home to the school for American Military children as well as the children of…
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Snow, Castles, German Alps
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So far on this trip-of-a-lifetime, the only thing that I have missed from home is SNOW! But today that is changing as we board a bus and head up into the Alps to see castles and snow. We picked up a tour bus about a 20 minute walk from the…
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And Just Like that, We Move to Munich
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Goodbye Kaiserlautern. Hello Munich! We headed off to Munich by train. A very easy and scenic ride (once we figured out where our seats were). Once in the city we settled into the Deutsch Eiche Hotel which is a really cool hotel where Freddie Mercury used to hang out. He…
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Hildegard von Bingen
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Today we took the train out of Kaiserslautern and into the German wine country on a bit of a musical and religious pilgrimage. We are going to follow in the steps of Saint Hildgegard von Bingen. A true polymath and visionary. And for many of us, the first female figure…
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A little bit of “normal”
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We are settling in to a bit of regular life in our Kaiserslautern apartment. School work, score-prep, and even some quiet time at night. We are really happy here. We have been doing a lot of exploring given that we have made it the habit to take walks around the…
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Living in Downtown Kaiserslautern
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Now it gets real. Although we have been gone a long time, we have only been on ocean liners, hotels, or academic conference locations. And the goal of this trip was to experience “regular life” living in different countries. And now, we are about to do just that. Grocery shopping,…
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Palatinate Forest & Hohenecken Castle
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Today we must leave our village and head to our first apartment and the chance to experience “living locally.” But before leaving the village we needed to do some hiking. So on Sunday morning Tommy and I took off into the mountain to explore the many hiking trails in this…
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European Music Educators Conference!
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For the last couple of days we have had the privilege to speak at the European Music Educators Association Conference (EMEA) which is being hosted this year by the USAG Rheinland-Pfalz Kaiserslautern Military Community. To get to the conference we left our hotel in the village and headed to the…
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London to Paris to Kaiserslautern Germany
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Today we take the Eurostar from London, through the Chunnel to Paris, where we walk to a different station and take a Deutsche Bahn train across France and into Germany where we stop at the main station in Kaiserlautern. As a little boy I remember reading in the “Weekly Reader”…