2006 retirement trip

Best shots of the trip

GRAND CANYON.  Jenni & Caroline in the snow
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GRAND CANYON.  With Caroline
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GRAND CANYON.  Sun shining in foreground, rain falling in background.
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JEROME ARIZONA.  Jenni & Caroline visit a house of joy.
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TUCSON ARIZONA.  Jenni with Shareen Fancher.
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Saturday 18, 2006  Me and Whitely.
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Saturday 18, 2006  Our good friend Masaru Hiki came a creditable 5th.
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Saturday 18, 2006  Final day of flying. It was extremely windy but I managed to get through it OK. Here, I'm laughing about it with Lou Wolgast while Masaru looks after my plane.
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Saturday 18, 2006  Ted Fancher presents me with a purple heart award for being wounded in action.
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CHICAGO.  The Chicago River.
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CHICAGO.  Skyscrapers including Hancock building.
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CHICAGO.  Champagne bottle skyscraper and Al Capone's penthouse.
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Thursday 23 March, 2006  These old original buildings are on the western side of the Guadalquivir in an area called the Triana district.
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Friday 24 March, 2006  The Plaza de España is one of Seville's most easily recognised buildings and the embodiment of the Moorish Revival in Spanish architecture
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Friday 24 March, 2006  In Dan Brown's novel Digital Fortress, the first scene takes place in the Plaza.
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Friday 24 March, 2006  Some of the 54 alcoves representing the districts of Spain.
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Sunday 26 March, 2006  The Chapel of the Casa de la Contratación (house of trade).  Isabella of Castille received Christopher Columbus after his second voyage to the Americas here. The ceiling has octagonal and star-shaped designs, influenced by Mudéjar art.
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Sunday 26 March, 2006  This is the main room of a complex of rooms used for public events and affairs of state.
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Sunday 26 March, 2006  To the left and right of the pool are sunken gardens.
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Sunday 26 March, 2006  María enchanted Pedro the Cruel so he had her husband killed. María resisted him & poured boiling oil over her face to disfigure herself  to stop his pursuit. She became a nun & moved to a convent. Or so legend says.
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Monday 27 , 2006  . . . but none are more famous than Christopher Columbus.
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Saturday 25 March, 2006  It was not a good year for Rossi although was clearly the best rider in the 990 field. Bike and tyre problems pushed him back to second place at the end of the season.
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Saturday 25 March, 2006  Rossi again at turn 11.
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Saturday 25 March, 2006  Looking across at the X1 seating area in the background.
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Saturday 25 March, 2006  We waited about 15 minutes for a cab or bus but realised that there was no way for them to get in.
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Saturday 25 March, 2006  After about half an hour's walking after leaving the circuit, we joined the freeway exit.
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Saturday 25 March, 2006  Motorists out of their cars, probably discussing their range of options which is zero
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Tuesday 28 March, 2006  The pavillion in which the horses perform.
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Tuesday 28 March, 2006  Training 4
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Tuesday 28 March, 2006  After the show, we were able to see the horses from the show in the stable area.
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Tuesday 28 March, 2006  Jerez' Plaza de Toros. It was built in 1840 and rebuilt in 1872 and has a capacity of 9500.
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Wednesday 29 March, 2006  Parts of the old wall and embattlements. In dire need of restoration.
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Wednesday 29 March, 2006  It's now after 2:00 PM. You know what that means don't  you?
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Wednesday 29 March, 2006  Siesta.  It's hard to comprehend everything being closed at would otherwise be the busiest time of the day.  It must drive normal European countries nuts.
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Wednesday 29 March, 2006  Near to the Alcazabar is the old quarter so we head into it to see what we can find. Flamenco tonight?
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Saturday 1 April, 2006  Quite the most enchanting building I've ever seen. Of all the places I've been and seen, the Alhambra has left the most lasting impression on me.
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Sunday 2 April, 2006  On the northern side of the fortress looking towards the Watch Tower.  Below the horizontal  wall in the middle of the picture is the Arms Gate, one of the main entrances to the tower.
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Sunday 2 April, 2006  A better view of the Palacio de Dar-al-Horra. The Moorish defensive walls can be seen to the left going up to the palace and back down again. Below the palace are the cliff dwellings in Sacromonte.
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Sunday 2 April, 2006  The Sierra Nevadas are part of La Alpujarra which is a landlocked historical region in Southern Spain that stretches south from the Sierra Nevada mountains. The western part of the region lies in the province of Granada and the eastern part in the province of Almería.
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Sunday 2 April, 2006  Boabdil´s mother lived here after being repudiated by Muley Abul Hassan when he married Isabel de Solís, a Christian who had converted to Islam.
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Wednesday 5 April, 2006  .
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Wednesday 5 April, 2006  We leave the Botanic Museum and head for the Parque del Buen Retiro (Park of the Pleasant Retreat).
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Wednesday 5 April, 2006  it was first used to display flower species indigenous to the Philippines which, in 1887, was a Spanish colony.
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Thursday 6 April, 2006  Giambologna's equestrian statue of Philip III dates to 1616 . . .
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Thursday 6 April, 2006  The Manzanares River is near where the ancient palace was, so the Muslims called it al-Majri (source of water).  From this came the naming of the site as Majerit, which later evolved into the modern-day spelling of Madrid.
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Thursday 6 April, 2006  Across from the  Jardines de Cabo Nobal are beautiful apartments. One can imagine from their prestige address, they'd be very expensive.
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Sunday 9  April, 2006  Every time I see this I say to myself  "My God but this is beautiful".  It's a painting done in 1850 by Franz Eybl called "A girl reading". Franz Ebyl was Viennese and lived between 1806 and 1880.  Interesting aside: Eybl died at his official residence here in the Belvedere and is buried at Vienna's famous Zentralfriedhof (Central cemetery)  where notable figures such as Beethoven, Brahms and Schubert are interred. He died at the age of 74 in 1880.
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Sunday 9  April, 2006  The man is wearing a crown of vines and her feet are draped with triangular-shaped vines, which expresses fertility because these vines grow rapidly. The left bottom part of the flower bed was added later after the original was displayed unfinished; it is quite different to the rest of the flower bed. The bronze background is flecks of gold leaf. Her shoulder is bare and she receives the kiss but is not, as yet, returning it. Absolutely fabulous!
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Sunday 9  April, 2006  That thing he is swinging is called a censer (a container for burning incense, especially one that is swung on a chain, in a religious ritual). It wards off evil spirits.
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Sunday 9  April, 2006  The Hofburg Palace was the Habsburg's principal winter residence, while Schönbrunn Palace was their preferred summer residence. The Palace was the birthplace of    Marie Antoinette    in 1755.
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Sunday 9  April, 2006  The Anschluss was the 1938 Nazi annexation of Austria.  Shortly after, the Nazis held a plebiscite  asking the people to ratify what had already been done. Reinforced by  Wehrmacht troops, they received 99.73% of the vote.
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Monday 10  April, 2006   He is a year older than me, retired, and I've known him since 1984 when we met at the World Championships in Chicopee Massachusetts.
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Monday 10  April, 2006   It is the law in Salzburg to designate shops by hanging iron signs over them. This makes Getreidegasse, the main pedestrian street through old Salzburg, quite unique.
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Monday 10  April, 2006   Looking along the northern side of the fortress wall.
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Monday 10  April, 2006   To the left is the Collegiate Church. The Kollegienkirche was built between 1694 and 1707 for the local Benedictine university founded in 1622.
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Monday 10  April, 2006   It was only about 10-12° today hence the winter woolies.
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Tuesday 11  April, 2006   . . .  and up the street was blanketed in snow.
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Tuesday 11  April, 2006   At breakfast in the Alpenblick, we meet up with Mike and Dani Barrett - long time friends of the family.
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Tuesday 11  April, 2006   Jenni did her usual "look at me in the snow" pose.
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Tuesday 11  April, 2006   Claus and Jenni stand in the snow and chat a bit - good place for a chat. The hat Jenni's wearing is the one she got at the Harley shop in Chicago.
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Tuesday 11  April, 2006   Every piece of glass was individually custom made in China and no one piece is exactly the same shape as any other.
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Tuesday 11  April, 2006   I was there with Jenni. What a surprise.
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Tuesday 11  April, 2006   Claus has an artist's eye and can make the simplest things interesting.
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Tuesday 11  April, 2006   The gloves Jenni's wearing are the Harley gloves she bought in Chicago.
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Wednesday 12  April, 2006   We awake this morning to a wonderland outside the Alpenblick (Alps view).
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Wednesday 12  April, 2006   We find that it has stopped snowing and, framed by the Alps, covered the area in a mantle of white.
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Wednesday 12  April, 2006   It's one of the most breathtaking scenes we've ever witnessed.
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Wednesday 12  April, 2006   Jenni, who makes the big decisions in our family, immediately agreed.
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Wednesday 12  April, 2006   Claus got the car ready for departure. We were to ride with him as far as we could and extract the last few moments of pleasure from his company.
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Wednesday 12  April, 2006   Austria's GDP/Capita at PPP is $38,400 (2007) which makes its income a little higher than Australia at $36,300 (2007).  Interesting: same figures for 2017 Austria = $49,200,  Australia = $49,900.
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Wednesday 12  April, 2006   Claus took a photo of this is amazing old wooden building; probably hundreds of years old.
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Wednesday 12  April, 2006   I imagine the corral is for horses during the summer season. Trail riding here must be spectacular.
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Wednesday 12  April, 2006   The wood shed covered in snow.  I take a picture of this again in a couple of days time and the snow has gone.
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Friday 14 April, 2006  . . . and the woodshed was visible again.
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Thursday 13 April, 2006   It is a fairy tale village from a Grimms Brothers story.
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Friday 14 April, 2006  A 10-metre high black iron swastika, illuminated at night, was erected at the top of Hitlerberg in June 1933.  After the defeat of the Nazis in 1945, the citizens destroyed the swastika and restored the name to Heiglkopf.
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Friday 14 April, 2006  Barbara Ostheimer's guest house at Sauersberg 129, Wackersberg, 83646, Germany.  We intend to stay here again in our 2009 trip.
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Friday 14 April, 2006  Another feature of Bavarian houses, where they use wood as a fuel, is that the wood piles are unbelievably accurate. It's as though they were cut to length using a laser. Note that the rear of this building is brick.
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Friday 14 April, 2006  Residenzstrasse goes to the left and Theatinerstrasse goes to the right. In front of us is the Feldherrnhalle and to the left is the Palais Preysing which served as residence for the Counts of Preysing
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Friday 14 April, 2006  Posing with a lion outside a beer hall - for which Munich is famous.
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Friday 14 April, 2006  The Frauenkirche, Cathedral of Our Blessed Lady,  is the largest church in Munich.  its towers can be seen from all directions. It will remain so because the City of Munich prohibits the building of any structure over 100 meters.
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Friday 14 April, 2006  The south tower of the Frauenkirche (on the left) can be ascended and offers a panoramic view of the city and the Alps.
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Sunday 16  April, 2006  We caught the monorail from KL Sentral Monorail station into the city where we visited the twin towers.
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Sunday 16  April, 2006  The Petronas Twin Towers Malaysia were the world's tallest buildings from 1998 to 2004.  We returned to the Le Meridien, made a few Skype calls, had dinner and 12 hours sleep.
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