I blog, therefore I exist

I thought I would commence my blogging career by posting the picture of a beautiful woman on the premise if it works for beer companies, it should draw readers to my blog. All of you who know how hip I have been to technological matters all my life will recognize this is just another step in my progress from electric typewriters, er, I meant personal computers.

Sydney and I just returned from a trip to Germany where we visited Berlin and then went South to Prague. Sydney had not been to Berlin for about forty years. One of the places we visited was Checkpoint Charlie, where visitors to East Berlin went through an Army checkpoint to visit the sights in that half of the city. It was a military station with a tank at a time when tensions were so high. Now it's a souvenir store location with lots of tourists and no ominence. We ate at some German restaurants and used what German we knew to get along; we did very well as long as the waiter could speak English or sign language.

We traveled south by car to Dresden on the way to Prague to look at the Zwinger museum. On the way we stopped in Sprewald and rode boats through the canals that run through the forest and meadows of this 200 square kilometer area of hamlets and summer cottages. There were no engines on the boats; they moved them by poling because the water is no more than three feet deep. This lasted for three hours and the fascinating commentary by the poler was in German. One hour would have been fine.

We arrived at Prague in time for a three day holiday weekend in honor of St. Wenceslaus, Sydney humming the Christmas carol periodically as we drove in. In addition to the holiday crowd, the Pope decided to visit Prague that weekend so the town was full of people. He stayed in the palace and we stayed in the town below the palace so we saw Catholics of all shapes and varieties streaming along our street coming and going to the palace grounds.

To avoid wearing any readers out, I'm stopping at this point to insert another photograph and let you catch your breath. There will be more posts.
Scott