New York City, October 2017

I had enough points at Marriott so that our stay at the Residence Inn on 48th Street was free.  Our flight was also free with Delta points!

Wednesday October 11, 2017

• Leave home at 7:00AM
• Depart MKE   9:05AM           DL3472
• Arrive LGA    12:20PM
• Uber to Residence Inn, 148 E. 48^th Street

• Guggenheim Museum – reciprocity with MAM
• Frick Museum – reciprocity with MAM

Thursday, October 12

• Woodlawn Cemetery
• #4 Train to Woodlawn Station (end of line): ½ block
• Spamilton

Friday, October 13

• Queens
• Socratese Sculpture Park - free
• Fisher Landau Art Museum - free
• Beer at Dutchkills Centraal
• Lunch at Baharni Greek Restaurant
• Greece             Theater 80       80 St Mark’s Place

Saturday, October 14

• Open House, NY
• Trinity church cemetery
• Hamilton
• Robert Fulton
• Alexander Hamilton Customs House
• Henry Street Settlement House
• Marble Cemeteries
• Dinner at Matisse on 49^th & 2^nd Avenue

Sunday, October 15

• Uber to airport
• Depart LGA    9:30AM           DL3453
• Arrive MKE    11:10AM

London, Luxembourg City, & Brussels - May 2017

Wednesday, May 3, 2017

• Leave home at 10:00
• 10:40 AM Bus to Chicago
• Air Canada flight 7594

§  Change plane in Montreal

§  Departs ORD at 3:25PM

Thursday, May 4

• Arrive LHR at 7:25AM
• Tube to Holborn Station
• House of Parliament- closed pending elections!
• Beer in Trafalgar Square
• Dinner near our flat at La Castalletta
• Tagleatello
• Lamb shank

Friday, May 5

• The Map That Changed The World
• William Smith map ar the Royal Geological Society
• High Gate Cemetery 1:45 tour
• Toured East cemetery first
• Douglas Adams
• Karl marx
• East Cemetery
• Alexander Litvinenko – Russian Journalist
• Dinner at Savoir Faire

Saturday, May 6

• British Museum
• London Free Mason Museum
• Courtauld Gallery
• Very nice
• Tate Modern
• Walk back home

Sunday, May 7

• Victoria & Albert Museum
• Lots of stuff
• Natural History Museum
• Crowded and under renovation
• Punjab for Indian food for dinner
• Acharri Gohst (lamb)
• Acharri Murgha (chicken)

Monday, May 8 – travel day

• Train Luxembourg City
• Leave St Pancras at 8:00
• Train in Brussels was taken out of service.  Replacement train came in about 15 minutes.
• Arrive Luxembourg about 3:30
• Johanna met us and took us to the apartment.
• Dinner at Grand Café in Place Guillaume
• Carpaccio

Tuesday, May 9

·         Luxembourg History Museum

·         Lunch in Place de Guillaume

o   Sausages, potato pancakes, and beer

·         Bus to American Military Cemetery

o   Patton’s grave

·         Dinner at Basso in the Grund (valley)

o   Snails

o   Schnitzel cordon bleu

o   Spaetzels with lardons

·         Nice walk home

Wednesday, May 10

• Ville Vaudon
• Bosch exhibit
• Edward Steichen exhibit
• Moved to Milwaukee at age 10
• Walk through city park
• Walked to train station to get tickets to Brussels
• Lunch at Place de Paris
• Beef burgundy
• Long walk to Clausen
• Got a little lost
• Ended up at Scott’s across from Bosso for a well deserved beer
• Dinner at Café Grand
• Prime Ministers of Luxembourg (Xavier Bettel) & the Czech Republic were there too

Thursday, May 11 – travel day

• Train to Brussels
• Rue de la Fourche 7 Brussels
• Frites at Georgette café
• Magritte Museum
• Saw Atomium from window!
• Beer
• Georgette café for dinner
• Asperges a la Flamande was is season!

Friday, May 12

• Antoine Wiertz Museum
• Mannekin Pis
• Beer & snacks
• Lunch at Chez Leon
• Moules & frites
• Walk through St Catherine
• Oysters on the street
• Dinner at Georgette cafe

Saturday, May 13

·         AC Flight 833

·         Departs BRU at 10:45AM

§  Change planes in Montreal

§  My suitcase didn’t make it

·         Arrive ORD at 2:49PM

·         Bus to Milwaukee

·         Home by 6:00PM

• Suite case delivered on Monday