Off to Prague, Dresden, Berlin ...

So, tomorrow morning early we head off for a flight to Prague, where we're meeting Margaret's college friend, Nancy Kates, who has been touring Europe with her synagogue. We'll be spending four days there with Nancy and then we'll be taking a train to Dresden, spending that day and some of the next exploring there, and then we'll hop back on the train and head to Berlin where we're staying with my cousins for about 6 days. Then we fly back to Budapest, where we'll be for a little over two weeks before we head to Ireland for the final 2-week leg of the trip.

We'll probably not be able to blog much while we're on the road, but we'll leave you with a few very recent pictorial highlights.

This is Devin with her new best friend from school, Mallika. They are about a week a part in age.


Yesterday, Margaret and I went out for lunch with Fr. Terrence Curry, a Jesuit who runs a fascinating nonprofit architectural design center here (more on this later), and he adopted us for the rest of the day, showing us local architecture, a traditional wine bar, and bringing us to his friends' house (they work for the American Embassy here) for a lovely dinner, high up in the hills of Buda. A truly memorable day. Fr. Terry, who was introduced to us by our good friend Mary Dailey, bought Devin some flowers before we crossed the appropriately named Margaret hid (bridge). Here's Margaret, Terry and Devin at a lookout point in the middle of the bridge over the Danube.


OK, Vizonlatasra! (See you soon!)