Amende-World-News

Last Updated: 3 January 2021

Welcome to the family history web site for the Amendes, Ammendes, von Amendes and am Endes.
Created by Dave Amende.

                                                                                                 

Amende World News Newsletter

 

The idea of a newsletter was conceived in 1997 following a family Christmas when we were discussing the impact of the internet. In the UK we are the only Amendes in the telephone book. Via an internet search engine we were able to look at the telephone directories for many European countries and found listed hundreds of" Amendes". I then wrote to 250 of them and received replies from all over Germany, America, New Zealand and Holland. To reply to them all I started a newsletter "Amende World News Update". Issue 9 was the last one to be sent out in paper format in September 2002.

                                                   All the back issues of the newsletter are on this web site, to access copies of Amende World News Update on-line click here

 

 

Latest Amende World News & Events

We moved from Wolverhampton and from Stockton on Tees and are now living in York.

   Contact:  damende807@aol.com    

 

Amende World News Photo Gallery

Some Photos of my recent Art Projects

Click on these links to view the files

 

3D Art

These “reverse perspective” images were created a few years ago picking up an idea from York’s Open Studios

Minster

Street View the Groves

 

Ink Sketches

Harewood House sketched December 2020

A Harbour Scene       Sketched December 2020

A Straight Between 2 Islands       sketch 2019

An Idea for Island    sketch 2019

St Malo     a sketch of our holiday rental flat 2016

 

Photos from the 2001 European tour

 

In January 2001 I set off on a voyage of discovery to travel around Europe in my motorhome to visit the many places I have researched in publishing Amende World News since 1997 (and have a long holiday!).

 


In Tarifa, I spent a week camping on the beach then turned North to Madrid for Colin Forster's Stag night with friends from the UK

The next week saw me in Portugal  .

I then arrived in Switzerland to meet up with my parents

I then headed south to Venice  and then on to Pompeii  .

Then to Austria where I  "did" Vienna and  Salzburg  by bike.

Then to a family wedding in Linz, Austria. A "Blues Brothers" shot in front of the castle where the ceremony took place, then the formal photos of Dominic & Elizabeth followed.

I then headed into Germany and visited Ulm to see Dieter von Amende. where I could  relax with Dieter's family for a beer.

I arrived in July at the terminal for the ferry back to England after doing 9 European countries, 10 changes of currency, 1 new tyre, and 10,680 miles.

2 weeks later I was off to Amsterdam, then Denmark and into Sweden. I kept an appointment with relations in Stockholm then to Norway and did Oslo & the fjords. 

They were brought up in Estonia and so gave me a lot of good advice on where to visit. I then caught a  ferry across the Baltic Sea and to Parnu where I found myself sitting outside the Ammende Villa being interviewed for an Estonian national newspaper. 

Back to the French Riviera with good friends from the UK for my 40th Birthday in September.

The last leg was over to Ireland in November and December. This time I had my cat Jerry with me.  Maybe it was the Guinness but Jerry only lasted another 6 months after that trip.

Total miles covered: 50,000!