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2014 at a Glance
Last 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 […]
Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey
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, […]
I Smell a Rat!
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 […]
It’s Mines, All Mines!
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 […]
Bergen-Belsen Memorial, Lower Saxony, DE
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 […]
A Castle in Kassel
Kassel, DE Kassel, Germany had been on my list of places to visit because there is a UNESCO site there called Berpark Wilhelmshöhe. Once I started researching the area, though, I realized there was a […]
Days of Wine & Roses: Eltville, DE
While my parents were here visiting over the summer we took them to the town of Eltville am Rhein or Eltville for short. “Am Rhein” means “on the Rhine” and it was a beautiful day […]
Brussels: The Word That Lies Like a Rug
Late-night television talk show host David Letterman once famously described “carpet” as the word that lies like a rug, because it is neither a car nor a pet. I can’t remember what I had for […]
The Biggest Funfair on the Rhine Dusseldorf, DE
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 […]