Jim on the train to Florence. A little light reading passes the time. The scenery in Austria and northern Italy was amazing. Mountains, villages, grape fields, castles.  No pictures of it to speak of. We tried, but shooting from the inside of a train makes for blurry photos. It was best just to marvel at the view.

We arrived in Florence after a scenic train ride through Austria and Northern Italy. This is a picture from the Ponte Vecchio at dusk.

Erna, Michael, Tim and Marco on the rooftop of the Deutsche Eiche, a restaurant on Gaertner Platz where we had our last meal in Germany.  Marco and Michael are Erna's good friends.  Notice Marco's leather wristband which he designs for a living.  Michael is a sound technician and musician in Munich.

Erna and Jim after our lunch near the Viktualian Markt on our last day in Munich. It's hard to say good-bye.

The Glockenspiel in Marian Platz, Munich.  That's Tim on the left and Jim in the right; it's amazing they found costumes to fit us!

This was part of the air conditioning system the visionary King Ludwig II used to cool his bedroom at Linderhof Castle.

Here we are with our friends Eva, Rudi, and Jeri from Munich after a traditional Bavarian meal in Gruenwald, south of Munich.