Washington DC, October 10 - 14, 2018

See our Washington DC photos here.

Wednesday 10/10

• Leave home at 6:15AM
• Depart 8:15

• SW Flight 2354

·         Arrive 11:00

• Stay at Residence in 333 E St, SW, DC, 20024

• 202-484-8280
• Blue line to Federal Plaza (13 stops)  0.2 mile walk or
• Yellow Line to L’Enfant (4 stops)  0.4mi walk
• Library mall
• Hirshorn Sculpture Garden
• WWII Memorial
• Korean War Memorial
• Lincoln Memorial
• Viet Nam Memorial
• Drinks at the Hive Bar
• Dinner at Old Ebbitt Grill
• Sliver line to Metro Center (7 stops)  0.2 mile walk

Thursday 10/11

• 10:10 Capital Tour – tickets from Tammy Baldwin
• Library of Congress
• Snack at Bullfeathers
• 3:00PM National Museum of African American History & Culture
• Drink at 1331 Lounge
• Drink at Mackey’s Pub
• Thai for dinner

Friday 10/12

• Congressional Cemetery
• Blue line to Potomac station (3 stops).  0.4 mile wall
• Yardhouse for beer
• Full Kee Chinese for lunch
• National Portrait Gallery
• Obamas’ portraits
• Dinner with Alaric & Jennifer Piette at Marvin

Saturday 10/13

• Arlington Cemetery
• Blue line to Arlington (9 stops).  0.1mi walk
• MLK Memorial
• FDR Memorial
• Jefferson Memorial
• Lavagna Italian restaurant for dinner

Sunday 10/14

• Depart DCA 12:55PM

• SW 5431
• Arrive MKE 2:00PM

Germany, May 2-12, 2018

We had a great trip to Germany in 2018.  The Germans handle their troubled 20th century past well, acknowledging their wrong-doing.

Our route was Berlin to Dresden to Nuremberg to Munich.  It all worked out perfectly.

You can see our photos here.

Wednesday, May 2, 2018

• Leave home at 11:50
• 12:40 Bus to O’Hare
• Reservation codes: FWUDBL, RISHM8
• Depart ORD on Finnair flight AY10  at 6:00 PM, seats 30A&C

Thursday, May 3

• Arrive Helsinki at 10:50AM
• Depart Helsinki on Finnair flight AY1433 at 11:30
• Arrive Berlin at 12:25PM
• Almstadtstraße 24 2. Hinterhaus Erdgeschoß Rechts Berlin, Berlin 10119

Friday, May 4

• Reichstag 9:30AM Reservation made
• Museum Island
• Topography of Terror
• Eat at im Podewil
• Berlin Wall Memorial
• Dinner at Yarok – Syrian food
• Met a couple from Maine

Saturday, May 5

• German History Museum
• Markthalle Neun
• Covered market in the SE of Berlin
• Prater Beir Garden

Sunday, May 6 – Travel day

• 11:19 Train to Dresden
• Arrive 13:07

• Neumarkt Dresden, Sachsen 01067
• Check in after 3:00PM
• Rick Steves Dresden walk
• Dinner at Watzke at the Golden Rider

Monday, May 7

• Cokkee at Dresder Kaffeestubchen
• Royal Palace
• Green Vault Tickets purchased
• Laundry
• Dinner at Altmarkteller

Tuesday, May 8 – Travel day

·         Dresden Catholic Cathedral

·         10:21 Train to Nuremburg

• Arrive at 13:54
• Bindergasse 7 Nürnberg, Bayern 90403
• Check in after 8:00AM
• Bratwursthausle bei St Sebald
• Little Nuremberg brats
• Barfusser for beer
• Dinner at Istanbul restaurant

Wednesday, May 9

• Nazi Documentation Center
• Nazi Rallying Grounds
• Nuremberg Castle
• Grounds only – we didn’t go in
• St Lawrence church
• Albrecht Durer House
• We didn’t go in
• German National Museum
• Dinner at Ganesha Royal Indian

Thursday, May 10 – travel day

• 9:55 Train to Munich
• Arrive 11:02
• 4 St.-Anna-Straße Munich, BY 80538
• Check in after noon
• Biergarten Viktualienmarkt
• beer
• Big protest in the main square
• Schneider Brauhaus
• Snacks and beer
• Hofbrauhaus Muchen
• Beer
• Haxnbauer im Scholastikahaus
• Pork knuckle
• La Stanza

Friday, May 11

• Munich Residence Museum
• Biergarten Viktualienmarkt
• Augustiner Klosterwirt
• Beer
• English Garden
• Surfers
• Beer garden
• La Stanza
• Last meal of the trip

Saturday, May 12

·         Leave for Airport at

·         Depart Munich on AA flight 717 at 10:15AM

·         Arrive in Philadelphia at 1:30PM

·         Depart PHL on AA flight 455 at 3:44PM

·         Arrive in Chicago at 4:46PM

·         Catch bus to Milwaukee

Piettes in Germany - May 2 - 12, 2018

Wednesday, May 2, 2018

• Leave home at 11:50
• 12:40 Bus to O’Hare
• Depart ORD on Finnair flight AY10  at 6:00 PM, seats 30A&C

Thursday, May 3

• Arrive Helsinki at 10:50AM
• Depart Helsinki on Finnair flight AY1433 at 11:30
• Arrive Berlin at 12:25PM
• Almstadtstraße 24 2. Hinterhaus Erdgeschoß Rechts Berlin, Berlin 10119

Friday, May 4

• Reichstag 9:30AM Reservation made
• Museum Island
• Topography of Terror
• Eat at im Podewil
• Berlin Wall Memorial
• Dinner at Yarok – Syrian food
• Met a couple from Maine

Saturday, May 5

• German History Museum
• Markthalle Neun
• Covered market in the SE of Berlin
• Prater Beir Garden

Sunday, May 6 – Travel day

• 11:19 Train to Dresden
• Arrive 13:07

• Neumarkt Dresden, Sachsen 01067
• Check in after 3:00PM
• Rick Steves Dresden walk
• Dinner at Watzke at the Golden Rider

Monday, May 7

• Cokkee at Dresder Kaffeestubchen
• Royal Palace
• Green Vault Tickets purchased
• Laundry
• Dinner at Altmarkteller

Tuesday, May 8 – Travel day

·         Dresden Catholic Cathedral

·         10:21 Train to Nuremburg

• Arrive at 13:54
• Bindergasse 7 Nürnberg, Bayern 90403
• Check in after 8:00AM
• Bratwursthausle bei St Sebald
• Little Nuremberg brats
• Barfusser for beer
• Dinner at Istanbul restaurant

Wednesday, May 9

• Nazi Documentation Center
• Nazi Rallying Grounds
• Nuremberg Castle
• Grounds only – we didn’t go in
• St Lawrence church
• Albrecht Durer House
• We didn’t go in
• German National Museum
• Dinner at Ganesha Royal Indian

Thursday, May 10 – travel day

• 9:55 Train to Munich
• Arrive 11:02
• 4 St.-Anna-Straße Munich, BY 80538
• Check in after noon
• Biergarten Viktualienmarkt
• beer
• Big protest in the main square
• Schneider Brauhaus
• Snacks and beer
• Hofbrauhaus Muchen
• Beer
• Haxnbauer im Scholastikahaus
• Pork knuckle
• La Stanza

Friday, May 11

• Munich Residence Museum
• Biergarten Viktualienmarkt
• Augustiner Klosterwirt
• Beer
• English Garden
• Surfers
• Beer garden
• La Stanza
• Last meal of the trip

Saturday, May 12

·         Leave for Airport at

·         Depart Munich on AA flight 717 at 10:15AM

·         Arrive in Philadelphia at 1:30PM

·         Depart PHL on AA flight 455 at 3:44PM

·         Arrive in Chicago at 4:46PM

·         Catch bus to Milwaukee

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

Piettes In Ireland 2016

Saturday 10/1/16

• Arrive Dublin 7:55AM
• Aircoach bus into Dublin
•  Parliament Apartments, Lord Edward Street, Apt 5
• Dublin Castle
• City Hall
• Chester Beatty Library
• Dinner at The Winding Stair

Sunday 10/2/14

• PM: Trinity University
• Book of Kells – need tickets
• National Library
• WW I exhibit
• National Museum of Archeology
• Museum of Natural History
• St Stephen’s Green
• Snack at The Hairy Lemon
• Greek food for dinner
• Organ recital at St Patrick’s Cathedral
• Guinness & Jameson at Fallon’s

Monday 10/3/2016

• 10:30 tour of Glasnevin Cemetery
• 2:45 Kilmainham Jail prison tour
• Walk back to flat
• Dinner at The Woolen Mill

Tuesday 10/4/2016

• Bus to Galway – 11:15
• 10 Mary Street Apt 1
• Dinner at Oscar’s
• Irish dancing

Wednesday 10/5/016

• Walked around
• Forthill Cemetery
• Grave of 300 sailors of the Spanish Armada executed in 1588
• Dinner at The Pie Maker

Thursday 10/6/2016

• Bus to Dublin – 10:45
• 31 Scarlet Row Essex Street West
• Dinner at Bull & Castle
• Traditional music Pub Crawl

Friday 10/7/2016

• Boyne day trip with Mary Gibbons
• Hill of Tara
• NewGrange
• Dinner at Kathmandu Kitchen

Piettes in Mexico City - 2016

Mexico City, March 8-13, 2016

Tuesday March 8, 2016

• Leave home at 9:15
• 9:40 AM Bus to Chicago
• AA Flight 2327  Departs ORD at 1:25PM arrive DFW 3:50
• AA Flight 2233  Departs DFW at 5:12, arrive MEX 7:49
• Cab to Hotel Cathedral

Wednesday, March 9

·         Templo Mayor (p70)

·         Palacio Nacional (p70).

·         Museo de la Tortura (p74)

·         Palacio de Bellas Artes (p77)

Thursday, March 10

·         Teotihuacán (p146)

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Friday, March 11

·         Museo Nacional de Antropología (p83)

·         Castillo de Chapultepec (p83).

Saturday, March 12

·         Museo Frida Kahlo (p93)

·         Leon Trotsky museum

Sunday, March 13

·         Volaris flight 934

·         Departs MEX at 8:50AM

·         Arrive ORD at 1:45PM

·         2:20 Bus to Milwaukee

·         Home by 4:00PM

Miscellaneous things to do in DF

·         Plaza Garibaldi (p74).

·         San Ángel’s Bazar Sábado (p129) market.

·         Don't forget the churrascuria Los Moros! You will love it!

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Piettes in Paris: October 7-18, 2015

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

• Leave home at 10:15
• 10:40 AM Bus to Chicago
• AA Flight 42
• Departs ORD at 3:30PM

Thursday, October 8

• Arrive CDG at 6:45AM
• Air France bus to Gare de Lyon
• Notre Dame

Friday, October 9

• Musée Bourdelle (10:00 – 18:00, T – N)
• Montparnasse cemetery
• Trocadero views of the Eiffel Tower

Saturday, October 10

• St Eustache church
• Rue Rambuteau market
• Pompidou Center (11:00 – 22:00 W-M)
• Saint-Merri (9:00 – 18:00, M-S)

Sunday, October 11

• Orangerie museum (9:00 – 18:00 W–M)
• Musée d’Orsay (9:30 – 18:00, T-N)
• Packers at WOS

Monday, October 12 – travel day

• Train to Lyon -10:58 Gare de Lyon
• St John the Baptist church
• Walk through Old Lyon

Tuesday, October 13

• Funicular to Fourviere
• Basillica of Notre Dame
• Gallo Roman museum & ruins
• Boat ride down the Saone, up the Rhone, and back
• St George church

Wednesday, October 14

• Beau Arts Museum
• Museum of Confluences (11:00 – 19:00 T-N)
• Museum of the Resistance

Thursday, October 15 – travel day

• Train to Paris 11:34 Lyon Part Dieu
• Madam Curie museum (13:00 – 17:00 W – S)

Friday, October 16

• Carnavalet Museum
• Maison Victor Hugo (Place de Voges 10:00 – 18:00 T-N)
• Petit Palais Beau Arts museum
• Rue Cler

Saturday, October 17

• Sacre Coeur
• Montmartre

Sunday, October 18, 2015

·         AA Flight 41

·         Departs CDG at 9:25AM

·         Arrive ORD at 11:50AM

·         12:20 Bus to Milwaukee

·         Home by 3:00PM

·         Packers at 3:25

Miscellaneous things to do in Paris

• Musée Monmarttan Monet (10:00 – 18:00, T-N)
• Musée Jacquemart-Andre
• Catacombs
• Natural History museum
• Maison de Balzac (10:00 – 18:00 T-N)

Miscellaneous things to do in Lyon

• Lyon greeters

• n caraf d’eau = caraf of tap water
• Un pitcher du vin = pitcher of house wine

Seattle - August 12 to 16, 2015

In August we went to Seattle for our nephew Charile and Nicole's wedding.  We arrived around 6:30PM on a direct Alaskan Air flight from Milwaukee.

We only had one day in Seattle itself, but we did make the most of it:

• Pike Market
• Antique firefighteing equipment museum
• Alaskan God Rush museum
• City Hall
• Olympic Sculpture Park
• a bunch of other stuff.

We stayed in Belltown at a great little AirBNB that was very conveniently located.

On Friday we went to Union, WA for the wedding.  We stayed in a little cottage, another AirBNB.

The wedding was a lot of fun!