Friday, November 20, 2015

September 2015 - Auf Wiedersehen Deutschland......

After 4 wonderful years living in Germany, we are moving on!  Panama - next stop!!!

We will truly miss our absolutely wonderful apartment at Vierzigmannstr, 20 in the great city of Erlangen, the country of Germany and the continent of Europe.  If we could stay without a job, we would, but we can't.  So on to the next adventure in our lives.

In the past week we have made sure that we spent time with old friends and visited our old haunts in Erlangen.  Here are a few photos......

Ahhhhh Steinbach Braü


Our Charlotte

Charlotte's new little sister, Helene
Gardens at Erlangen Palace

Erlangen Market and our Chicken Man



Altstädt Kirchenplatz
Our local Metzgerie (butcher)
Enoteca Erlangen
Enoteca






Ciao!

Ristorante Carpaccio (aka Pizza Regina)
Tim's choice - Pizza Regina
Jayne's choice - Pizza Hawaii

Yum!!!!

The best bruschetta EVER!  Two pieces free with dinner.
Bamberg with good friends

Little Venice on Main - Bamberg

Biergarten on the river

Dayle and Timo

Gorgeous!!!!
And, in the middle of all of this, our wonderful friends, Maureen and Peter Kolassa are cruising through our neighbourhood on a River Cruise.  We meet them for lunch, in Bamberg.....
Maureen and Peter Kolassa
An evening with some adidas colleagues....
Nik Aleksander and his fiancé AnnMaria

Steve Rogers and Rachel .........

Our home for 4 years.....





Entrance way

Packing up.......





A special crate for our carbon fibre road bikes.
Thanks guys!!!

Bye bye!

Leaving it just the way we got it.

Final packing at the Hotel Rokoko in Erlangen.
Waiting for the taxi!!
Checking in!!!
NUE to AMS - 1.5 hrs
AMS to PTY - 10.5 hrs
(yes, we up-graded ourselves to Business Class - ahhhh!)

August 2015 - Train And Bike To Veitshöchheim

Veitshöchheim you ask?  Why?  Upon Tim's departure from adidas, his colleagues gave him a couple of gifts.  One was a beautiful German stein....

The other was a gift certificate for a dinner for two, at any one of the advertised restaurants in Germany.  Here was our criteria:

- restaurant must have a hotel (we wanted to stay the night)
- within two hour train ride from Erlangen
- the area had to be bikeable
- there had to be something to 'see'

Veitshöchheim fit the bill.  The restaurant we chose was Spundloch - das Hotel und Weinrestaurant and it had a gasthaus. It is located 10 km north of Würzburg (wine country), which is 1.5 hr train ride from home.  Also, is it located along the Main River which has bike trails beside it and has a gorgeous palace in the town.  What more could you ask for.




August 2015 - Budapest and Vienna By Train

June 2015 - UK Wedding And Anniversary Trip To London

May / June 2015 - Sue Comes For A Visit

May 2015 - Regensburg And The Sausage Summit

We woke up one morning and decided to go to Regensburg.  We packed a knapsack with a few important items, in case we decided to stay the night.

We hopped on a train - 1 change in Nürnberg, 2 hours and €28,00

May 2015 - Tim Does Palma de Mallorca

While I was in Ontario, Tim was working, but he had a long weekend to kill so he decided to go cycling in Mallorca.  He packed up his helmet, biking shoes and pedals and went for 4 nights!

He rented a bike and rode east, west and southwest of Palma.








Passeig del Born
"Ummmm, which one shall I surprise Jayne with????"
Upon his return, he definitely confirmed that Palma / Mallorca is a good contender for our retirement home.

Hasta luego Mallorca.