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Germany Vacation Travelogue 2006 PDF Print E-mail
Written by Daniel Hienzsch   
Monday, 07 May 2007

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I hadn’t really been to Germany in a decade.  In fact, since 1991, I had only gone over for a couple of days here and there for funerals and I had never been with Robyn; this was going to be an entirely new experience.  My grandfather had told me earlier in the summer that he and my grandmother were going to go over in September and I though that I simply had to go too.  I don’t know how many more trips Opa and Oma are going to take to Germany so if the opportunity was going to present itself, I had to seize it.  We had little time to spend in any particular place, constantly rushing from one visit, sight or relative to another with only a few chances to sit down and relax along the way.  That said, while hurried, it was exciting, and every day was packed to the bursting point with good times from beginning to end. It all started on September 28th with the flight over…

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