01 Dec 2008, Our Moony Vacation Begins, 54 21.60 N/ 010 12.60 E
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 Levi is doing well considering his age and his cancer
prognosis
so we decided that we should pursue our trip to Kiel Germany to visit
Wolfgang and Denise from SV Moony. We left yesterday at 1809 ET from
Dulles airport and headed for Kiel via Zürich and Hamburg. All
went well but Bob did not like much to sit for 8 hours at a time. Still
he endured. We arrived in Hamburg at 0930 UTC where Denise was there
waiting (Wolfgang was at a doctor's appointment). Denise expertly
crafted our Fiat through all of the traffic obstacles to the Autobahn,
past Kiel Zentrum to a suburb of Kiel, Hiekendorf. But before we went
to home base, we picked up Wolfgang at the University hospital where we
discovered that all was well. Our holiday flat was quite spacious for
the four of us and it had Internet access. For lunch, we went to the
Karstadt department store. Of course, Denise and Wolfgang had
to translate for us. Not bad! Sadly, lazy Bob did not take many pictures of this trip so poor Ann had to do the job. Therefore she is not in the pictures.
Not good!
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3 Dec 2008, Seeing sights of Northern Germany , 54 21.60 N/ 010 12.60 E
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 Tuesday morning we headed for Kiel to drop off Wolfgang
for a doctor's appointment. We then headed for Karstadt again for bread
and coffee where Wolfgang met us around 1100 LT. Nice view from the
cafe. Then we headed for lunch at the restaurant near the Holtenauer
lighthouse at the northeast end of Kiel Kanal. The restaurant has recently
been rebuilt and it was quite classy. Prices were not too bad and the
euro exchange rate was getting better by the day. Tuesday was like most
winter days in northern Germany; a bit cool and almost always cloudy.
Next we headed for the AWN marine store where we were supposed to just
look around. Instead we bought a xxx (Ann will not let me say how much) euro oil lamp for Jule. Hope she
appreciates it. Next we headed for the Christmas Market (Wiehnachten
Markt) for some Glühwein. We were really getting used to this stuff
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 Wednesday found us on the snowy
roads somewhat early (0800 LT) heading for the Farmer's Market being
celebrated near the city's Zentrum. After buying nothing, Wolfgang
headed for another doctor and Denise and we headed for the Rathaus
to renew her passport. We finally re-united around 1100 ET and headed
for Flensburg to pick up some stainless steel stuff at Niro
Petersen's (where SV Moony received her stern arch). Afterwards, we
headed for the Danish border to pick up some herring and get a few
wieners from the local hot dog stand. No Weihnachten Markt this day.
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