2001


Barbara with Helga in New Zealand
Jenny and Kelly in Pacific Palisades
Barbara on Julia's Island in Michigan
Rolf and Barbara in Holland, Belgium, and Germany:
Cornelius and AC in Tibet
Rolf and Barbara in New Mexico for Christmas

Entries from our Calendar



Barbara in New Zealand, Feb 27-Mar 26, 2001



Helga, Barbara, and

North Beach

Helga

Barbara

South Island

Rainbow, South Island





Jenny and Kelly in Pacific Palisades, 2-8 April 2001



Dolls and Girls



Grandpa with is two grandaughters and their dolls



Barbara on Julia's Island
18 Jul-14 Aug

Julia, and Phillip in the main cabin







Rolf and Barbara in Holland, Belgium, and Germany
3 September – 15 October

Precipitated by a Hieronymus Bosch Exhibition in Rotterdam I had planned an extended tour of the museums in Holland, Belgium, Hamburg and Berlin. Marcus and Monique offered to drive us and picked us up in Düsseldorf. It became the greatest experience of museums ever: I searched for Bosch and the Old Masters, Barbara for modern paintings: the early Mondrian in Den Haag, Ensor, Delveaux and Magritte in Brussels. In Hagen Christine and Rudolf Scharlau in their
art-nouveaux house lay on the way. They took us to a Turner exhibition in Essen, which topped off the experience. We saw Klaus and Lilo in Hamburg and met Dieter and Evelyn for a few hours in Berlin, the only time we ever saw them together.
To see what we saw and
remember click on this link:

.........Grand Museum Tour

6-13 Sep Maastricht, Amsterdam Museums, Spanbroek Museum Frisia, Haarlem
12 Sep Rotterdam, Bosch Exhibit, Shostakovich “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk” Opera
13-14 Sep Antwerpen, Den Haag, Utrecht
15 Sep Louis and Edith Hermans' 40th wedding anniversary
16-20 Sep Brügge, Ghent, Bruxxels
21-23 Sep Hagen at Christine Scharlau's, Turner Exhibition in Essen
24-26 Sep Hamburg at Klaus+Lilo's
17 Sep-1Oct Berlin Dieter+Evelyn, Gemälde Galerie
1 Oct Rolf flies home Barbara goes by train to Tübingen
3 Oct-15 Oct Barbara with Marga Tübingen

A more elaborate day-by-day itinerary of this trip with no pictures exists too.


Susanne visits us
12-20 Oct


Cornelius and Anne-Cecile in Tibet
8-19 Nov(?)

Cornelius had wanted to take AC to Tibet, who had spent some time roaming China on her own(!). It became a crazy tour. They flew from Chengdu to Lhasa and hitch-hiked 1500 km along the Tsangpo valley to south eastern Tibet, circumabulated a sacred Bön mountain, and hitch-hiked back to Lhasa. Having some time on their hands they went on excursion to the Crab Lake and the monastery of the female incarnation of Tibet. Some day he has to collect his pictures and tell the tale. - On their way back they visited us for a few days.

Cornelius and AC in Tibet





21 Nov-25 Nov Cornelius in the Palisades after their Tibet trip


Rolf and Barbara Christmas-New Year in New Mexico

No one wanted to visit us for Christmas this year. So Barbara drove us to New Mexico along the by ways: Tucson, White Sands Nat Monument, Grand Quivira (Salinas Pueblo Nat. Monument), Albuquerque, Las Vegas,NM, Madrid – where we bought a beautiful Tibetan rug made by Indians in Mexico(!) - Santa Fe, Rancho di Chimayo, where we spent Christmas Eve. In Taos we visited an old friend, and returned to Los Alamos, via the old Spanish villages – Las Truchas - Bandelier Nat. Monument, Canyon de Chelly. An excursion to Chaco Canyon fell through because of bad roads in December. In Flagstaff on New Year's Day Barbara suddenly decided to drive to Grand Canyon, where we were surprised by a spell-binding late afternoon at the snowed-in South Rim....

Cemetery in Las Truchas, NM



New Year at Grand Canyon



New Year Grand Canyon

For more pictures from this and other visits to the Southwest:
Guide to the Southwest and there New Mexico



Pacific Palisades, July 29, 2011