Introduction
James T. Humberd
Burbank, CA 91501
818-846-1495
jimhum@sbcglobal.net
My Favorite �Nuggets�
were written and printed just for fun, and just for friends.
I started to write and collect a few of my favorite Nuggets,
but on and on it went until nearly 500 were written or found.
Well, some of them are 40 to 50 years old. They are all mine, except the half dozen or so, identified as other than me.
The Web Site, with thousands of pages of stories and photos.
http://www.travel-tidbits.com/
The Nugget Book was Printed 2009,
not really Published, but just for fun.
Questions, comments, criticisms are all appreciated.
But don�t brag if you find a duplicate Nugget.
Some are on purpose.
If you see a page you would like to read again, fold the corner, or scribble with pen or pencil, that�s the only way to find it.
Also, the best Nugget in the Book is
just a few pages past the last one you read,
so don�t give up!!!
Our Travel Concept and Pattern Includes
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If we have no schedule, we aren't late.
If we don't care where we are, we aren't lost.
If we have no itinerary we're exactly where we ought to be.
If we can't see IT this trip, we'll see IT next time.
First I wrote three books about our travels. I liked the little stories, so wrote the Snippet books, filled with one-paragraph stories. As I read them, I liked the �kernel,� the seed of those stories, so edited them to a couple of sentences, and produced the Gem books. Then edited them even smaller, and called them Nuggets.
Some of them look like they could be framed as a plaque, or a Refrigerator Magnet. Can you help?
My Nuggets are short Gems.
Eleven Books, Eighteen Volumes, about our Travels
�Invitation to�� Series (2001) Or as John Steinbeck might have said, Travels With Emmy
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Book 1 INVITATION TO FRANCE
Our travels in France have been a thoroughly enjoyable experience -
truly, it's an exciting and beautiful country.
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Book 2 INVITATION TO GERMANY
A vacation trip to Germany can be a trip through many different settings,
representing many periods of history.
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Book 3 INVITATION TO ITALY
A trip to Italy is unlike any other trip imaginable.
A beautiful, confounding, exciting, educational experience
That will be remembered for a lifetime
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Book 4A Jim and Emmy�s Personal Snippets (2007)
This Book is dedicated as a Memorial to Emmy, my most Beautiful,
most Fabulous Wife for nearly 55 years.
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Book 4B Jim and Emmy�s Travel Snippets (2007)
This Book is dedicated as a Memorial to Emmy, my most Wonderful
Travel Companion for nearly 55 years.
(One Volume, Two Books, back to back)
Jim�s Six Volumes of Gems, One Volume of Nuggets
Two Books per Volume, one at each end.
Book 5A Sweetie Gems Book 9A German Gems
Book 5B Jim�s Gems Book 9B Austria Gems
Benelux Gems
Book 6A Travel Anecdotes and Gems Liechtenstein Gems
Book 6B RV Gems Switzerland Gems
Other Than Europe Gems
Book 10A Great Britian Gems
Book 7A French Gems Iceland Gems
Book 7B A Few Favorites Ireland Gems
Andorra Gems Poland Gems
Monaco Gems Scandinavia Gems
Morocco Gems Book 10B Czech Republic Gems
Spain/Portugal Gems Greece Gems
Hungary Gems
Book 8A Italy Gems Turkey Gem
Book 8B San Marino Gems Ukraine, Crimea Gems Vatican Gems Yugoslavia Gems
Book 11A Travel Nuggets
Book 11B Jim and Emmy Nuggest
Table of Contents
Page
Our Travel Philosophy 9
French Nuggets 19
German Travel Nuggets 39
Italy Nuggets 55
Other Countries Nuggets 85
Misc Travel Nuggets 109
Our Travel Philosophy
� We are not campers, we travel in a Recreation Vehicle because
Our clothes are on a hanger.
There are goodies in the refrigerator.
We know who used the toilet last.
� We travel with the idea that
If we have no schedule, we aren�t late.
If we don�t care where we are, we aren�t lost.
If we have no itinerary we�re exactly where we ought to be.
If we can�t see IT this trip, we�ll see IT next time.
We have visited everyplace mentioned below.
� Favorite Ruins
The Arena, Pula, Yugoslavia
Castle, Heidelberg, Germany
Cathedral, Glastonbury, England
Cenobitic monasteries, Met�ora, Greece
Coliseum, Rome, Italy
Delfi, Greece
Ephesus, Turkey
Greek Temples, Agrigento, and Paestrum, Italy
Hadrian�s Wall, England
Herculaneum, Italy
King Minos� Palace of Knoss�s, Crete
le pont d�Avignon, St.-B�n�zet Bridge, France
Megaliths, Carnac, France,
Parthenon, Athens, Greece
Pompeii, Italy
Pont du Gard, France
Stonehenge, England
� Roman Theaters:
Arles, France
Fiesole, Italy
Gubbio, Italy
Nimes, France
Orange, France
Ostia, Italy
Pompeii, Italy, Teatro Grande
Pompeii, Italy, Odeum
Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza, Italy
� Roman Amphitheaters (70 built) We Have Visited: (15)
Germany; Trier
Yugoslavia; Pula
France; Paris, P�rigueux, Arles, Nimes, Fr�jus
Italy; Lecce, Lucca, Pompeii, Pouzzoles, Rome, Siracusa, Spoleto, Verona,
� Greek Theaters:
Athens, Herod Atticus Odeum
Athens, Theatre of Dionysos
Delfi, Greece
Dod�ni, Greece
Ephesus, Turkey
Epidaurus, Greece
Siracusa, Sicily, Italy
Taormina, Sicily, Italy
� Greatest This, Greatest That: Natural Treasure
Alps, and The Matterhorn
Berchtesgaden, Obersalzberg, Germany
Chamonix, France
Fjord Coast, Norway
Grand Canyon of the Verdon, France
Plitvica National Park, Yugoslavia
Southwest Coast of Ireland
� Greatest This, Greatest That: Man-Made
Blessed Kinga Chapel, Wieliczka, Poland
Benediktinerstift Melk, Austria (Emmy's ancestor was the architect.)
Castle, Heidelberg, Germany
Cenobitic monasteries, Met�ora, Greece
Charles Bridge, Prague
Cistercian Abbey, Ebrach, Germany
Di�riga Kor�nthou (Corinth Canal)
Eiffel Tower, Paris
Ephesus, Turkey
French Alsace
Grand Parade, Cork, Ireland
Herculaneum, Italy
Mostar Bridge, Yugoslavia
Parliament Building, Budapest
Parthenon, Athens, Greece
St. George, and Gospa od Skrpjela, Yugoslavia
Stonehenge, England
� European countries we have visited; (29)
Andorra 1 trip, Austria 7 trips, Belgium 7 trips, Czech Republic 3, Denmark 2, England 3, Finland 1, France 9, Germany 9, Greece 1, Hungary 1, Iceland 1, Ireland 1, Italy 8, Liechtenstein 2, Luxembourg 9, Monte Carlo 8, Netherlands 7, Norway 1, Poland 2, Portugal 1, San Marino 4, Scotland 1, Spain 2, Sweden 2, Switzerland 7, The Vatican 4, Wales 1, Yugoslavia 4 times.
� Others, along with travels in Europe; (3),
Crimea 1, Morocco 1, Ukraine 1,
� Islands in the Mediterranean/Adriatic Sea; (11)
Corsica, Crete, Hvar, Korcula, Mallorca, M�konos, P�tmos, Rhodes, Santor�ni, Sardinia, Sicily
� We have sailed on ferries or ships over 75 times in 17 Countries,
Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Wales, Yugoslavia (World wide we have �touched� 124 ports on 5 Continents.)
� We�ve been to these European towns and cities (among thousands of others):
Amsterdam 4 trips, Antwerp 2 trips, Assisi 3, Athens 1, Auschwitz 1, Bamberg 3, Barcelona 1, Bellagio 1, Berlin 3, Bern 4, Bonifacio 1, Bonn 5, Brugge 4, Brussels 5, Budapest 1, Caernarfon 1, Cagliari 1, Carcassonne 4, Copenhagen 2, Dachau 2, Dresden 2, Dublin 1, Dubrovnik 3, Edinburgh 1, Ephesus 1, Florence 5, Frankfurt 9, Geneva 2, Genoa 5, Glasgow 1, Hamburg 2, Heidelberg 9, Helsinki 1, Herakleion 1, Istanbul 1, Lisbon 1, Ljubljana 2, London 3, Lourdes 2, Luxembourg 5, Madrid 1, Melk 2, Milano 4, Munich 4, N�rnberg 3, Oberammergau 1, Odessa 1, Oslo 1, Palermo 1, Palma 1, Paris 9, P�tmos 1, Pisa 3, Pompeii 3, Prague 3, Reykjavik 1, Rhodes 1, Rome 4, Rotterdam 4, Santor�ni 1, Strasbourg 7, Stratford-upon-Avon 1, Stockholm 2, Tanger 1, Trier 9, Vatican 4, Venice 7, Versailles 4, Vienna 2, Warsaw 2, Yalta 1, Zagreb 2.
� Most important to us, and the most interesting, are:
The people, Architecture and antiquities, Geography
� European Cathedrals (churches) we have visited: (151+ + + )
Aachen, Amberg, Amiens, Angers, Angoul�me, Antwerp, Assisi, Auch, Auxerre, Avignon, Avon, Avranches, Bamberg, Barcelona, Basel, Bath, Bautzen, Bayonne, Beaugency, Berlin, Beziers, Bologna, Bonn, Boulogne, Bourges, Bremen, Brugge, Brussels, Caen, Carcassonne, Ch�lons, Chartres, Ch�teaudun, Chester, Clemont Ferrand, Comburg, Coutances, Coventry, Dresden, Dublin, Ebrach, Esslingen, Fecamp, Ferrara, Fiesole, Florence, Foug�res, Frankfurt, Freiberg, Freiburg, Fribourg, Glastonbury, Gdansk, Geneva, Ghent, Glasgow, Grasse, Halle, Hamburg, Hildesheim, Jumi�ges, K�ln, Konstanz, Korcula, Krak�w, Landivisiau, Lausanne, Le Mans, Leipzig, Limburg, Loches, London, Lourdes, L�beck, Lucca, Luxembourg, Mantes, Maria Laach, Melk, Mettlach, Metz, Milano, Modena, Mont St. Michel, Monte Cassino, Montefiascone, Moret, Mulhouse, Munich, M�nster, Nantes, Naumburg, N�rdlingen, N�rnberg, Oliwa, Oria, Orleans, Orvieto, Paderborn, Padova, Palma, Paris, Parma, Passau, Perigueux, Perouges, Perugia, Pisa, Poznan, Prague, Provins, Quimper, Regensburg, Rheims, Ripon, Rouen, Sacra di San Michele, Salisbury, Salzburg, San Gimignano, San Leo, Sarlat, Senlis, Sens, Seville, Siena, Soissons, Speyer, Spoleto, St. Denis, St. Lazir, St. David, St. Lo, St. Malo, Strasbourg, Toledo, Torino, Toul, Trier, Trondheim, Udine, Ulm, Utrecht, Venice, Vienna, Wells, Wetzlar, Wieliczka, Worms, York, Zagreb,
� For us the RV means:
Clothes on hangers
Storage for all we buy
Costs that we can afford
Our own Beds, Pillows, Blankets
Refrigerator for food and goodies
Stove � Our cook was the best in Europe
Convenience beyond your wildest imagination
Shower, hot water, our own soap and shampoo
Chemical toilet, we know it�s clean, and we know who used it last.
� The RV and a campsite make a convenient, quiet, comfortable place to spend the night so we are rested and ready to sightsee again in the morning. In travel, as in life � different strokes for different folks.
� Reservations for nightly accommodations are never made, and when we leave a campsite in the morning, we often have no idea which country we will be in by evening. But we do know it will be a delightful day.
� European Trips in Rec. Vehicles-----------------Camp nites.---Countries That year
1970 � VW Van,-------------------28 days,-----4,500 mi.- ---19-------10
1979 � Dodge Cobra RV,--------96 days,----10,900 mi.----56-------16
1980 � Dodge Cobra RV,-------171 days,----17,500 mi.--123-------17
1983 � Dodge Transvan,---------87 days,-----8,000 mi.----50--------9
1985 � Dodge Transvan,--------156 days,----16,400 mi.--102-------17
1988 � Renault,---------------- ---130 days,-----8,400 mi.----70--------8
1989 � Renault,------------------ -115 days,-----8,700 mi.----77-------10
1991 � Peugeot,---------------------78 days,-----6,800 mi.----53--------6
1995 � Fiat,-------------------------107 days,-----5,300 mi.----55--------8
Totals---------------------------------968 days,-----86,500 mi.�605
� We don�t say our way is the only, the best, or even an acceptable way to travel, for anyone but us. The camping is not important, the sightseeing is.
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