Travels WithJohn and Janice

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Every trip we've shared since 2011—filter by where we went, when we traveled, or what we explored.

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The Brandenburg Gate todayGermany
7 min read2016

Dateline May 19, 2016, Berlin

The overland half of our trip began behind what we grew up calling the Iron Curtain, and our first stop was Berlin, where we spent nearly all our time on the old East side. We rode the public buses and subways, bought a new lens to finish off our 'International' camera, and shared a table and a few fiery plum snaps with two German businessmen, one of whom asked us to make sure America takes care of them. We walked from the Brandenburg Gate to the stelae of the Holocaust memorial, to the parking lot over Hitler's bunker, to the matched cathedrals of Gendarmenmarkt. It was a day of seeing, up close, the things that were off limits when we were young.

#Berlin#East Berlin#Brandenburg Gate
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The Nyhavn canal lined with restaurants in CopenhagenDenmark
6 min read2016

Dateline May 17, 2016, The Baltic Capitals

With St. Petersburg given its own post, this is the rest of the Baltic cruise. Copenhagen was our hub, a city we came to love over three partial days, with its Nyhavn canal, the surprisingly small Little Mermaid, and a memorable dinner of smorrebrod and snaps. From there the Norwegian Star carried us to Warnemunde and the old town of Rostock, the medieval streets of Tallinn, and the rock-hewn church of Helsinki, before bad weather cost us Stockholm and we said our goodbyes to the ship and turned to the trains.

#Copenhagen#Nyhavn#Little Mermaid
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