Gouda, Netherlands If you are a cheese lover, you absolutely must visit the city of Gouda in the Netherlands at least once in your life. If you haven’t already guessed, it’s the home of Gouda cheese. In Dutch, Gouda is pronounced something like “How-duh”, hence the exceedingly clever title of […]
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Continuing the theme I wrote about in the last post (LINK), shortly after our trip to Berlin we took a ride to see the Berlin Airlift Memorial near Frankfurt Airport. After World War II, the Soviets controlled eastern Germany. Berlin, which is in eastern Germany, was itself divided with the […]
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Gernsheim is a small town on the Rhine river that started out as a small Roman fishing village about two thousand years ago. Sean found out about Gernsheim last February when we were looking for something to do one weekend. He found a bad translation online of a walking tour, […]
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You know those hats that men like Winston Churchill used to wear? The ones with a brim, and a band around it, and what looks like a dent on top of the hat in the middle? Well those are called Homburg hats and they were supposedly invented in the town […]
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After we left Ypres, we headed to the city of Antwerp in Belgium for 2 nights. Although the city is mainly known for its diamond trade, there is a lot more to it than that. Antwerp is a vastly underrated city that you should definitely visit on a trip to […]
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We covered a lot of ground during our road trip through Belgium. The first thing I want to say is that after years of fairly frequent traveling, I may have finally learned how to pack. This is the bag I took with me for a 6-night trip. I put my […]
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Höxter, DE On the way home from Sean’s birthday weekend trip, we made a little detour to visit Germany’s newest UNESCO World Heritage site. The full name of it is Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey, located near the town of Höxter. It was originally a monastery complex built in the […]
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Hameln, DE On the way back to our hotel after visiting the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, we stopped in the town of Celle to find a nice place to have dinner for Sean’s birthday. Celle is another town known for its half-timbered houses and it contains over 400 of them. The […]
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Harz Mountains of Germany Part II In the last blog post, you saw that we visited a few towns in the Harz Mountains region of Germany and that I wrote quite a bit about our stop in Quedlinburg, whose old town is part of a UNESCO site. The town of […]
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If you were living in Europe and were asked where you wanted to go for your birthday weekend, which destination would you choose? Paris? Vienna, maybe? Or London? Prague? Well if you were my husband you would choose to go see the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Of course I was interested […]
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