Our 30th Anniversary - 2005

To celebrate the start of the fourth decade of our wonderful marriage, Sherry and I took a fabulous trip. We were able to use my President’s Club Award money that I received from FranklinCovey and our company travel department made all of the arrangements.

We flew all night from Atlanta to Stuttgart, Germany, arriving at 9AM on March 18, then taxied to the train station that same morning to take the interCity train to Zurich, Switzerland where we spent the night in the Marriott Zurich Hotel.

I asked the hotel concierge to give me a printout of the Swiss telephone book with every Wuergler name he could find. I wound up with a listing of 85 names – both Wuergler and Wurgler – that lived all throughout the country. It was my very first foray into some family research that would pay huge dividends seven years later.

We took the train the next morning, March 19, to Geneva where we changed trains to Nice, France arriving at 8PM that evening. After spending the night at the Hotel Westminster in Nice, we took a 15-minute taxi ride to the Chateau de la Chevre D’Or at the entrance to Eze Village.

Eze is a most ancient place, first populated back in medieval times (2000BC) and serving as a defense post for invaders of all types and kinds.

The cobblestone streets wind up the steep hillside and don’t appear much different from olden times.

Our room was literally cut out of the mountain side and overlooked the Mediterranean 2600 feet below. It was fabulous.

The ramparts on the top of the fortress commanded a wide view of the sea. It is a place worth seeing and worth lingering around.

The 5-star restaurant in the Chateau was spectacular. What a fabulous place to spend the night of our 30th wedding anniversary.

After two fabulous nights, we then took a quick taxi ride to yet another fabulous place. The famous Hotel de Paris in the heart of Monte Carlo, the capital of Monaco.

We stayed another two nights, did a little shopping…well, window-shopping in this very, very upscale city.

With memories to last a lifetime, we left the morning of March 24 for New York City, then back home to Atlanta.

Fabulous experience.