Grand Tour, 1996

In March of 1996, I finished up a contract at Hewlett Packard, and decided to spend a month or two in Europe before finding another one.

I got a good deal on an air fare to Brussels, which included several days on a Eurail pass, so I spent the first weekend checking out the beer. Brussels is a good place to start a European trip, because everything is in at least two and more likely 4 or 5 languages, so you get used to not speaking and hearing English all the time.

I had been in Poland a couple of years previously, and been unable to spend as much time as I would have liked with some very hospitable and linguistically ept cousins. They thought it would be fun to have me for Easter, so I spent the week before Easter in Poznan with them.

When I asked my recorder teacher, John Tyson, if he knew of any recorder-related stuff to do in Europe in April or early May, the only thing he knew about was the workshop he was giving in Kaiserslautern, Germany.

While there, we spent a day taking a boat up the Rhine and exploring the village of Bachrach

Since I had a few days between the end of the workshop and when I had to catch my return flight from Brussels, I stopped in Cologne.

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