From Regensburg, Germany to Bordeaux in France and Marl Cave Mushroom Growing

Sunday morning, October 26, 1986 we had breakfast and started packing up and left by 10:40 for our journey towards Paris, France.
Yep, in our cute Fiat Uno rental car...

We made it till Dourdan and spent the night there after driving 960 km that day or 596 miles.

We stayed at a four-star kind of castle; Hostellerie Blanche de Castille in Dourdan click through.

We had lovely weather with a little rain but good Interstates with high toll! It was expensive driving in France.

We ate a soup and went to bed.

Monday, October 27, after breakfast we started driving to Bordeaux with great weather and we made steady progress, covering another 540 km or 336 miles.

We easily found the Mercure Bordeaux Lac Hotel click it.
We did team up with François Falconnet and Jean & Marianne Laborde for a great dinner in our hotel at 20:30.

Tuesday October 28, we packed up and had breakfast with François Falconnet and we went with him by 8:15 to the Experimental Station where Jean Laborde was working.

Admiring Jacques Delmas' Pleurotus lactarius at their experimental station.

Yes, it was chilly when we went to look for some mushrooms and Pieter had lend me his jacket... Jean Laborde next to me and in the white jacket is another scientist colleague and then François Falconnet to the right.
We now proceed towards Châtellerault where we first have lunch en route.
The beautiful West of France!

What we covered that day. Departing from Bordeaux and lunch before Châtellerault and on to the compost place in Dangé-Saint-Romain, see below. End of day was our hotel in Tours...
Too bad we could not linger and explore... work related visits only.

After lunch we proceeded to a Compost Place:
Centrale de Compost du Chatelleraudais in 86220 Dangé-Saint-Romain

Me, overlooking the compost slab...

At the compost slab... You see the piles of raw material.

Now it's on to Tours where we stay for two nights at LOGIS HÔTEL DES CHÂTEAUX DE LA LOIRE in VIEUX TOURS, FRANCE just click through.

We have dinner with François Falconnet and his wife and Jeanne and Gilles d'Hardemare and walked through Vieux Tours together.

On Wednesday, October 29, Pieter joins François Falconnet after breakfast for a visit with Gilles d'Hardemare and seeing Old Tunnel and Caves.
Also new experiment tunnels, short composting.

Claude Desjouis in Mamers

François Falconnet in the white shirt inside the caves from Royal Champignon

Harvesters busy inside such caves for Royal Champignon in Bagneux

Brown mushrooms from the caves and harvested with their roots!
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Pieter spent his day together with his scientist colleagues and I explored Vieux Tours, the Old City Center of Tours from 11-16:00 and enjoyed lunch in a 15th century restaurant.

Finding little gifts for daughter Liz, for Uncle Bo Whaley and a cute Limoges candleholder for in my letter box. See above next to a US penny... It is small!
Did write some letters, also to a French born lady that lives in Dublin, Georgia; Genevieve Alexander...
We had once more dinner in Vieux Tours with François Falconnet and walked home to our hotel...

Next day after breakfast we started the journey back to Horst aan de Maas and doing so we completed our total of 3,311 km or 2,057 miles in the little Fiat Uno rental car.
From Horst aan de Maas to the German Mushroom Conference in Regensburg and then on to Bordeaux etc.
That's how Pieter stayed in close touch with the international colleagues within the Mushroom Industry and gathered information and knowledge for his students.
It always worked mutual, by giving away knowledge, you also gain...

Fond memories!

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Lecture by Pieter and Stay at UNESCO site Regensburg during German Mushroom Conference

Our 9th trip to Amsterdam, The Netherlands, we rented a Fiat Uno for using within Europe.
On Thursday, October 23, 1986 we both drove in our rental car from The Netherlands to Regensburg in Germany.
Around 650 km at that time or 404 miles.

This is the famous St. Peter Cathedral in Gothic architecture.

We stayed at the Hotel Kaiserhof am Dom in Regensburg/Germany just click link.
Parking was a bit tricky on this medieval Plaza around the Cathedral!
After a walk together through the city center we went to sleep under the down duvet.

On Friday, October 24, Pieter did present his lecture and this is one of the very rare occasions that he got paid for doing so! He received D.M. 1,000.00.
In the afternoon I joined the ladies on a bus tour to Kehlheim...

We visited the beautiful Asamkirche des Klosters Weltenburg, or Asam Church of Weltenburg Abbey. Just click through on link above and select English...
The painting on the ceiling in 1745 by Franz Asam (son of Cosmas Damian Asam, late Baroque painter and architect) represents the Last Judgment.

Next we went by boat through the Danube Gorge Nature Reserve and it was spectacular with all its fall colors! Enjoy a spectacular English spoken video: Benediktinerabtei Weltenburt (Germany) Vacation Travel Video Guide by clicking through.

Danube Gorge Nature Reserve click through to read more.

Kelheim - Weltenburg with the Abbey bottom left and the Danube Gorge above in center left... Center top and right is Regensburg with St. Peter Cathedral and Stone Bridge.
Wish my Pieter could have been with me...

We enjoyed a good German dinner at Bischofshof Braustuben (click through), together with Ferdinand Dohme and his family from Oldendorf, Germany and Hans Tschierpe from Wetzikon, Switzerland.

On Saturday, October 25, while Pieter still had some business and an afternoon excursion to the Graf (Count) Ballestrem, Pilzkulturen GmbH & Co KG (Mushroom plant) in Trisching about 45 minutes to the north of Regensburg, I had another City Walk with the Ladies at 9:00.

Had to get a picture of this fun Daxl Schuh (Dachshund Shoe) store front.
My cute black & tan Mauzie girl was no longer with us, since August 29 of 1985... MISSED her so much and still miss her.

We visited the medieval City Hall from the 2nd half of the 16th Century - Click here: Places to see in (Regensburg - Germany) Altes Rathaus and enjoy.

My entire life I will never forget this GRUESOME ROOM:
 The original preserved Fragstatt (Questioning Place) from the Middle Ages inside the Old Town Hall.
'Die im original erhaltene Fragstatt aus dem Mittelalter im Alten Rathaus...'
We got to see lots of Patrician Homes, from the wealthy upperclass back then.

Also the home where German writer and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ones lived.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Regensburg - Bavaria/Germany - GOETHE lived here on September 4, 1786, in the former Gasthaus zum weissen Lamm just click through.

The plaque that is seen in above photo...
We ended that Saturday with a Party Night for all the Conference Participants.

Those were two wonderful days, spent in such a fabulous historic city.
Gruß aus Regensburg/Donau
Greetings from Regensburg on the Danube
Top left clockwise:
Steinerne Brücke u. Dom = Stone Bridge and Cathedral
Dom St. Peter = St. Peter Cathedral
Bruckmandl = the legendary builder of the stone bridge looking at the Regensburg Cathedral
Im Donaustrudel = the Danube rapid with strong vortex formation below caused by the pillars of stone bridge!
Partie an der Donau = Game on the Danube
Alter Kornmarkt = Old Corn Market

 Top left: Dom St. Peter = St. Peter Cathedral
Radl (Rettich) Markt = Radish (daikon) Market
Neupfarrplatz und Gold Turm = A Square and former Jewish Quarter with Gold Towers for the affluent, the more important, the higher the tower.
Ostentor = Inspiring Gothic Gate
bottom are repeat places from the above explained...

Regensburg die alte Donaustadt
Regensburg the old Danube City

Hope you enjoyed this special city on the Danube as much as I did for those two short days!

Stay tuned for where our cute Fiat Uno rental car brought us next...

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Our Stay at Trianon Palace Hotel Versailles and Visiting Château Versailles, France

We woke up feeling like new after such an adventurous French wine drinking day before...

It is Saturday, June 11, 1983 but we still had to visit another business friend.

By 10:00 we arrived in Vendôme at the Claron Mushroom Spawn Company where Monsieur Rozenzweig would give us a great tour. 

Next we leave for the Trianon Palace Hotel Versailles adjacent to the Château Versailles.

Waldorf Astoria Trianon Palace Hotel Versailles click through for info

From our hotel we just walk to Château Versailles... it is adjacent!
My 3rd visit, once with my late 1st husband and once with Mom & Dad, see below post for link.
Interesting to see such tiny cars!

One never gets enough from Château Versailles...

Pieter with Neptune in front of Château Versailles

After dinner we did go back to walk in Versailles Garden...

LOVE the Orangerie...
Me in the Garden in the evening, we could not get enough of it!

Next day we drove back to The Netherlands...
All in all it was a fun trip with fond memories forever.

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