Monet's Lily Ponds in Giverny: today

Monet's Lily Pond in Giverny

Our crazy e-mail address

Greetings from enchanting Vetheuil, April 27, 2008

Dear Friends and Relatives:

Here are again some important facts about our email address and dates
of our where -abouts, when -abouts...

First our e-mail situation which seems to remain a problem:
We must send OUR email to you via <sigridno@mac.com>
BUT we ONLY receive your mail via <s.r.novak@cox.net>

WHY? We don't understand either, but that's they way it is!

The HOUSE telephone in Vetheuil: 33-134-78-1262;
Our International Mobil number: 0177-461-3677

We'll stay in Vetheuil till May 10. Thereafter we'll return to
Vaihingen to Werner and Maedi, and participate in the "important"
Pentecost celebration there. We hope to also see Walter and Renate,
if they are at home.

On May 20 we'll leave for Breslau, Poland, and stay there WITH the
Polish family for a month.

The rest of the summer has not yet been planned, except that we want
to spend it in North Germany with Sigrid's Family there. We'll be
moving about between Hamburg-Bremen-Holland and the North Sea ....

We are contemplating different options for our return to the US. Our
favorite scenario is to take sister Hildegard with us to Minnesota.
Should that NOT work out, we may have a stop-over in Iceland, where a
family still "owes" us a month of vacation (which they took a couple
of years ago in our Condo)

We might also fly to the East Coast, visit with Candice in Boston (or
Washington?) and buy a new car there. Then work our way back to
California either the Northern Route via Minnesota and Amarillo, or
else the Southern Route via Texas and Arizona.

So, you can see that we have a number of open options ......

By the way: We are doing very well and hope the same is true for you.

Warm greetings from the (finally) sunny France.

Ziggy and Richey

Eure Sigrid und Richey

Berlin-Center exploration with K.H. "Baum" und Almut Rose

Berlin, April 1, 2008

Please, ignore, in case you have already received this letter.

Greetings from Berlin where the weather is finally warming up and we are enjoying this exciting city outdoors and in bright sunshine together with Almut "Rose" and Karl-Heinz Baum, Almut's journalist friend.

Ziggy and Richey

At new train station: Picking up Almut and retired East-West correspondent Karl-Heinz Baum

 

 

Berlin Press Building

View from Press Building --- over to new Berlin Train Station

 

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Press Office

 

Outside press Building: Remains of the Berlin Wall

 

Memorial

 

Memorial for those who died trying to escape from the East across the wall

 

 

Museum for wall segments with numbers of people who died in attempt of fleeing

 

 

Chancellory with special "bridge walk way" connecting it to the Reichstag

 

Reichstag on the Spree river with crosses for those who died trying to swim across here 

 

 

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Inscription of the Deutsche Verfassung into the glass wall

 

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Tourist boat passing Chancellor Merkel's Office Building