olpe, germany

We have had a hard time finding internet sites, so our posting has not been as frequent as I would have liked.

Since I last wrote, we have visited Paris (to the Eifel Tower - twice, Montmartre, Notre Dame, The Louvre, etc.), to Mont St. Michel, Normandy (Omaha Beach, the American Cemetery and museum and the German cemetery - all very outstanding) and now in Germany.

We are staying in the little town that the Rademachers came from. This place is crawling with Rademachers! At Mass on Sunday, the priest was none other than Fr. Michael Rademacher!! We met him in the pub after Mass. We went down to Koln (Cologne) for the day yesterday and saw the Cathedral.

Today we are exploring our family roots. We found out that Rademachers have lived in this area since the 1500s. We bought a history book and a calendar with some neat historical information. We might try to get over to the Dusseldorf area this afternoon to explore the Kreifels family origins.

On German keyboards, the "z" and "y" are switched, making tzping rather difficult. Not to mention that all the punctuation is switched around! So this is all I will write for now. Next post might be from home.