In 2015, it felt like we slowed down our travels quite a bit.
Instead of doing long weekends away every other week or so, we did more weeklong trips and more day trips.
Despite what felt like slowing down, though, we managed to visit twelve countries outside of Germany and a good forty places within Germany.
Here are some photos from each country and some favorites from Germany.
Of the twelve countries we visited, three were new to us.
Ever since discovering the wonder of the song contest that is Eurovision (HYPERLINK), we have watched it in a different country each May.
This year, we chose to watch it in Serbia, the first of the three new countries we visited.
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Free walking tour/Bohemian neighborhood
190 and 413
Fortress
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cathedral
Tesla museum, changing of the guard, green areas, architecture, Cheap and good food and drinks, cousin Deirdre
The second new country we visited was Romania, where we spent a week.
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Although we based ourselves out of Brasov, that photo is from Sigishoara, one of our favorite stops in Romania and a UNESCO site.
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Prejmer Fortified Church, UNESCO
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Peles castle
No Bran castle
BBQ Boy and Spanky
Day in Brasov, Rasnov fortress, Bucharest, communist history
And finally, the last new country we visited was Bulgaria.
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We spent the American Thanksgiving weekend in Sofia.
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Rila monastery, UNESCO site
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Boyana church, UNESCO site
Again, cheap food and drinks, ruins, history, free walking tour, changing of the guard,
At the start of the year, the first of the countries we re-visited was Italy.
Long weekend in Sorrento
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Capri
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Amalfi Coast
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Mountain festival
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Pompeii
In March, we spent a week in England where we based ourselves out of Bath.
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Can you guess what day my cousin Mary and I were celebrating?
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Winchester
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Salisbury
Mar – U.K. (England)
Apr and Oct – 2 trips to Czech Republic
Apr – Poland
Jul – 2 trips to the Netherlands
Aug – U.K. (Scotland)
Sep – France
Oct – Belgium
Nov – U.S. (Sean went in Aug)
Dec – Austria
Favorites in Germany
TIPPLES:
Serbia – 151
Romania- 370
Bulgaria – 415
Italy – 967
England
Czech Republic
The Netherlands
Scotland
Belgium
U.S.
Austria
Germany
I will never stop being thankful for the travel opportunities that working in Germany has afforded me and I hope to continue to take advantage of them in 2015.
Wishing you all a very happy and healthy new year in your part of the world.
Happy New Year to all and here’s to great travels in 2016!
