On our first day of our trip to Bastogne, we had run across a couple of signs for a Historical Route. One the second day, we decided to drive the route somewhat in order to visit all 15 sites. It was a little difficult because there is no printed map […]
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Columbus Day weekend was a 4-day weekend for me and we spent it exploring Bastogne, Belgium and the surrounding area. This was the first photo I took on the trip and I had to include it because I’d never seen anything like this before, but maybe I’m living a sheltered […]
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The weekend of September 27th, we spent 2 nights in Colmar, France. We had been hearing great things about it for a couple of years and finally decided to go. It’s just under a 3-hour drive from where we live in Germany. We left home just before noon on Friday […]
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The second part of our long weekend to celebrate our 16th wedding anniversary was spent in Dresden. I had previously spent one night in Dresden in 2009 with my friend Morissa before I moved to Germany. We had been to Oktoberfest in Munich and then spent a few days in […]
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The weekend of July 12th we made a little trip to Nancy, France and stayed for 2 nights. I had been wanting to go there for quite some time because we’ve passed signs for it numerous times on other trips over the past couple of years. The reason it caught […]
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While we were in Rothenburg ob der Tauber the weekend before Christmas, we made a side trip to the town of Dinkelsbühl, which is about 35 minutes south on what’s called The Romantic Road. The Romantic Road (Romantische Straße in German) is about 220 miles long and has lots of […]
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Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary […]
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