Europe

Discovering the beautiful European countries and their people

Andernach

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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Leiden: City of Keys

On the last full day of our four-night trip to Leiden in the Netherlands over the Memorial Day weekend, we actually explored the city of Leiden instead of doing a side trip as we had the previous two days. I’ll just go ahead and start this post off with a […]

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Heppenheim, DE

A Hidden Gem Did you know that the Oxo company, of bouillon cube fame, was founded by a man who was an apprentice in Heppenheim, Germany? That of course was not the main reason for our visit to that town.  It was just a fun fact that we learned while […]

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Aachen

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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Alkmaar, Netherlands

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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Gelnhausen, DE

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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