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
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!