Have I mentioned that the Netherlands is one of my favorite countries in Europe? I like it more and more every time we go there. After visiting 36 European countries, I think I’d still choose the Netherlands as the country I’d live in if I was going to live in […]
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Albania & Macedonia, Part Two When last we left our intrepid travelers they were stuck in the mud in the middle of Albanian farmland. I know you’ve all been biting your nails and wringing your hands and wondering whether we ever got out. Oddly enough, I didn’t get upset at […]
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Albania & Macedonia, Part One I have sort of wanted to visit Albania ever since I saw the “Teachers Pet” episode of the TV show Cheers way back in 1985. You’ll see why after looking at this short clip from that episode. For some reason that little ditty stuck in […]
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While I was looking for some information about the Brothers Grimm for our visit to http://lyonsloco.blogspot.de/2014/02/the-brothers-grimm-childhood-home.html Steinau an der Straße, I came across a map that had several towns highlighted. One of them was Gelnhausen, although I’m not quite sure what the relation is between the town and the Brothers […]
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For some reason, Florence had not been at the top of my list of places to visit in Italy. It was on the list, but it just wasn’t at the top. That changed after my friend Vicki picked Dan Brown’s book Inferno for our book club. Although the book has […]
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The last weekend in January we made an unexpected visit to the city of Bitburg. I say unexpected because we originally were supposed to go to Verdun, France for 2 days. I just need to mention that I was not the one who made the arrangements for this trip and […]
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Amiens, France is another place I’d wanted to visit for a long time after reading about it a couple of years ago. It’s about 75 miles away from Paris and was a 5-hour drive for us. We visited there the first weekend in January. We left Thursday night after work […]
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Aschaffenburg is a town in the German state of Bavaria that’s about 45 minutes away from where we live in the German state of Hesse. I had wanted to go there for a while, so on the lazy, rainy weekend after Christmas we took a Sunday drive to go check […]
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Sean I and visited Cyprus for a week in November. This is the first time in I don’t know how long that we’ve spent 7 nights in one location on vacation. Normally we do extended weekends or, if we go away for a week, we visit at least 2 locations. […]
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The weekend of October 25th we made a trip to Berchtesgaden, Germany. We left home at about 9:30 Friday morning and arrived at the hotel to check in at about 3:00 p.m. It’s about a 5-hour drive, excluding stops, so it’s a bit of a long trip for just 2 […]
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