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Re: The Places We've Been vol. 2 - Pictures from Abroad and Travelogues
« Reply #315 on: June 21, 2015, 05:05:21 PM »
Hello Sara! I love the shot of the hotel, and from the balcony!

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Re: The Places We've Been vol. 2 - Pictures from Abroad and Travelogues
« Reply #316 on: June 21, 2015, 07:03:54 PM »


Church festival, with a parade and band.

Corpus Christi? I remember a parade all around the village we lived in back in 1967.

Beautiful pictures, y'all!

I had overlooked these threads!

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« Reply #317 on: June 22, 2015, 01:19:58 AM »
Hello Sara! I love the shot of the hotel, and from the balcony!

Glad you liked them. I saw my friend yesterday evening and said I wished we were about to sit down to dinner there!

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« Reply #318 on: June 22, 2015, 01:21:09 AM »
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« Reply #319 on: June 22, 2015, 01:24:54 AM »
Corpus Christi? I remember a parade all around the village we lived in back in 1967.

Beautiful pictures, y'all!

I had overlooked these threads!



Fritz, I was trying to find out. It was Sunday 14th, but we had already celebrated Corpus Christi the previous Sunday (sang Byrd's Ave
Verum :)).
I'm not sure I'd like a whole winter there, but a summer would be nice!

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« Reply #320 on: June 22, 2015, 01:25:40 AM »
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It did, didn't it? :D

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« Reply #321 on: June 22, 2015, 01:28:42 AM »

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« Reply #322 on: June 22, 2015, 02:33:32 PM »
Fritz, I was trying to find out. It was Sunday 14th, but we had already celebrated Corpus Christi the previous Sunday (sang Byrd's Ave
Verum :)).
I'm not sure I'd like a whole winter there, but a summer would be nice!

We really enjoyed the whole year, winter and summer. Especially it being the first time I had driven in snow, up and down the mountain between Aldrans and the University campus in downtown Innsbruck.

Yep, Corpus Christi was celebrated this year on Sunday the 7th, no special celebration on the 14th. But the parade looks a lot like the Corpus Christi processions I've experienced.

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Re: The Places We've Been vol. 2 - Pictures from Abroad and Travelogues
« Reply #323 on: June 27, 2015, 10:44:13 AM »
Thank you, Brian and Sara, for the lovely pictures and the travelogue. :) Somehow I missed them at the time they were posted. :( They make me want to go to Austria, which is not usually high on my list of travel destinations.
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« Reply #324 on: June 27, 2015, 02:11:28 PM »
I'm glad if I conveyed some of it to you, Jenny. :)

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Re: The Places We've Been vol. 2 - Pictures from Abroad and Travelogues
« Reply #325 on: July 02, 2015, 01:19:29 PM »


Church festival, with a parade and band.

More neat Innsbruck photos, Sara.
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Re: The Places We've Been vol. 2 - Pictures from Abroad and Travelogues
« Reply #326 on: July 03, 2015, 11:14:27 AM »
In late June, I drove to Pittsburgh and joined two friends on a seven-day, six-night bus trip to the seacoast of Maine, where we saw lighthouses and sailboats and learned a bit about lobster fishing.  

On my drive to Pittsburgh, I made an overnight stop at Bedford, along the Pennsylvania Turnpike, and had dinner at Ed's Steak House, which had come highly recommended by friends who once lived in the area.  The food was very good, although I had some kind of fish, rather than steak.

This one one of two old gas pumps on display in Ed's lobby.

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« Reply #327 on: July 03, 2015, 11:33:14 AM »
On Day 1 of the bus trip, a Saturday, we boarded the bus just after 5:30 AM at the terminal, since it had to make four other stops, spaced half an hour apart.  Our bus was scheduled to leave at 6:00, but the bus company prefers people to be early, and we were.  There were 28 paying customers total on the bus, so it was a little over half full, which is nice for spreading out.  After making the other four stops by 8:00 and heading east on the Turnpike to the first town, we had breakfast at an Eat 'n' Park, which offers either waitress service or a breakfast buffet.

Saturday was spent driving through Pennsylvania and the north part of New Jersey, and going across the south part of New York State.  We saw the skyscrapers of NYC in the distance as we crossed the Tappanzee Bridge.  Then we entered Connecticut and spent the night in Danbury, at a LaQuinta out in the middle of nowhere, which was attached to an Outback Steak House.  The tour company gave each of us a $25 gift certificate for the Outback, since it was the only restaurant available nearby.

On Day 2, Sunday, we passed through a corner of New Hampshire and entered Maine itself.  We took a side trip through downtown Portland, ME, where most businesses were closed on Sunday except for some shops and eateries down by the water.  The main food advertised was lobster, but two of the three people in my small group (including myself) can't eat shellfish, so we found the Elevation Burger restaurant (100% Organic Beef) which is shown on the right side of the picture below.  The burgers were delicious!

Afterwards we found time to shop at the Shipwreck & Cargo shop on the left; I think that's where I bought my two new T-shirts, one with embroidered sailboats and one with pictures of several "Lighthouses of Maine."


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Re: The Places We've Been vol. 2 - Pictures from Abroad and Travelogues
« Reply #328 on: July 03, 2015, 11:38:49 AM »
The primary food in town.


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« Reply #329 on: July 03, 2015, 11:39:51 AM »
A few shots of the Portland waterfront, taken after lunch.


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