This is not your average blog post on Iceland with tips on visiting the Blue Lagoon or the Gullfoss waterfall. There are plenty of those out there already. Instead, in this post you will find helpful information based on our actual experiences with driving, eating, drinking and sleeping in Iceland. […]
Read MoreIn 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 […]
Read MoreLast blog post of the year! A look back on our 2014 travels. Happy New Year to all and here’s to great travels in 2015! 2014 was another fun travel year for us, although I did slow down a little bit in attempting to reach my goal of visiting every […]
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The biggest funfair on the Rhine, called the Rheinkirmes in German, takes places every July in Düsseldorf. We had wanted to go to Düsseldorf anyway, so we used the excuse of the funfair. (As a side note, I had never heard the term “funfair” before moving to Europe. Where I’m […]
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The last full day of our long weekend in northern Germany started off with a drive to Wismar. Like Stralsund LINK and Lübeck LINK, the two other cities we’d visited over the weekend, Wismar is known for its Brick Gothic architecture. Along with Stralsund, Wismar makes up one half of […]
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No, the title of this post is not a grammatical error. A shoe last is an actual thing that you will found out more about in a minute. After our visit to Hildesheim, LINK http://travelsandtipplescom.ipage.com/reconstructed-city-center-hildesheim/ we made a stop before heading home. That stop was a visit to the Fagus […]
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Among the seemingly endless amazing sights in Germany is the Geyser Andernach, the highest cold-water geyser in the world. I didn’t even realize that there are both hot-water and cold-water geysers until I found out that Andernach is only about an hour away from us in Germany and read up […]
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One of the biggest beer festivals in Germany is the Bergkirchweih in the Bavarian town of Erlangen. The Bergkirchweih is an open-air festival that takes place for 12 days every year and attracts about a million visitors a year. It started way back in 1755. We spent two nights in […]
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There is a famous epic German poem called The Nibelungenlied (say that three times quickly!) or The Song of the Nibelungs. I’ve actually read most of the poem – as an English translation – but for some reason have yet to finish it. Anyway, one of the main characters in […]
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The first German building placed on the UNESCO World Heritage site was the Aachen Cathedral in, of course, the city of Aachen. Aachen is about a 2.5 hour drive from us, so rather than get up at the crack of dawn for a day trip that would involve a 5-hour […]
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