As the year draws to a close, I thought it would be nice to take a trip through my many travels over the course of the year . . .
I managed to be in at least two countries every month . . .
I know most of the pictures were featured here before - for the rare few of you who have managed to follow my blog for that long, I hope you accept my apologies.
Let me wish all of us, a good sweet year in the revealed sense, in all matters -both physical and spiritual . . . with the greatest blessing of all: Moshiach NOW!
(Most of) The cities featured in this post:
(Note: Suburbs such as Trakai [near Vilnius] and Gora kalwaria [Gur, near Warsaw -which wasn't shown below due to technical reasons] and cities in the US have not been shown)
Cheshvan:
Warsaw
Kazimierz
Majdanek
Lublin
Kislev:
The Rebbe's Wedding anniversary
Lithuania
Druskininkai
Trakai
Kovno
Teves
Warsaw
Ukraine
Zhitomer
Medzibuzh
Kiev
Shvat
New York
Warsaw
Pre-Purim
Lithuania
Adar
Prague
The group
A Fiddler With out a Roof
Warsaw
Purim
Sgt. Poland's Happy Hearts Club
The Real Men in Black -Lezajsker guests
Lezajsk (Lezhensk)
'and we got to see the sunset over the fields of Galicia.'
Nissan
Lublin
Bilgoraj
Lithuania
Klaipeda
Amsterdam
Iyar
Joshua Tree, California
Warsaw
Sivan
Hel
A local . . . but he lived in Detroit . . . well from near Detroit . . . well actually it was Canada, but . . . 
The tip of Hel (no, this is not a Joke)
Leba
Gdansk
"Gdansk is a true Polish city ,at least according to my guidebook. True it was controlled by the Prussians and then later the Germans for the past 600 years under the name Danzig -continues the guidebook . . . which is why it looks Amsterdam . . .which is in Holland -not Germany . . . but now the people are all Polish (because the Germans were expelled). True, adds the Guidebook, that most of the tourist are German -so almost everyone speaks German . . . oh, and the locals speak Kashubian . . . but the signs are in Polish. So, concludes the guidebook, one can clearly see that Gdansk is a truly Polish city.
This is History -Polski style."
Lithuania
The fall of communism -a former Soviet Factory
Made in the USSR
Windows in Vilna
The Vilner Gaon . . . I think
The Dark Lord errr Gediminas
The Neris
The Gediminas Castle
Vilnius
Trakai
The sun after a storm
Hevel tinokos shel beis rabban -Mipi ollalim v'yonakim yisad'ta
oz
Av
Simferopol, Ukraine
Bakhchisaray
Notice that the house is built into the mountain.
Akiva practices 'falling'
The Shuls
Stuck in a rut?
Gate to the cemetery
Eating lunch.
Berlin, Germany
Baruch -the youngest camper.
The Reichstag
The Brandenburg Tor
Humboldt -the Rebbe's University
France
Troyes
Rashi's shul
Paris
Tefillin 1000 feet up
In the Pletzel
Camp Games
The good guys
Off to find the bad guys . . .
The first counselor is found . . .
Looking . . .
The second counselor
Capturing a camper.
Finding the bad guys.
Euro Disney
The real tricolore.
Welcome to the France of the future.
End of Camp
Camp Play
Elul
Venice
Los Angeles -Home Again
A Good year to all!
2 comments:
For a year with its own list of trials and tribulations, it was a year of great moments and experiences that were important and unforgettable. Thank you for summing it up so well in your photo recap.
To many more...
How well you've put it!
Na zdrowie!
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