From the River Rhine to the River Main and the Odenwald Forest 12 Towns in 2.5 Years In this blog post (hyperlink), I wrote about how it took us almost four years to complete one section of Deutsche Fachwerkstrasse or German Half-Timbered House Road. We recently completed a second section […]
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Welp, it took us almost 4 years but we finally completed one section of the Deutsche Fachwerkstrasse or German Half-Timbered House Road. The road had 7 sections and the one we completed, called “From the Westerwald via the Lahn Valley and the Taunus to the River Main”, is the second […]
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2016 was, among other things, a year of castles for us. Turns out we got to see a total of 28 castles in 8 different countries, which so far is a record for us. Some castles were ruins with almost nothing left and others were very well-preserved, and some of […]
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We discovered the wonder that is the Eurovision Song Contest while vacationing in Lake Bled, Slovenia back in 2012. Ever since then, we’ve tried to watch it in a different European country each year. In 2013 we watched in Tallin, Estonia. In 2014 we stayed home and watched in Germany. […]
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Since moving to Germany in 2011, I have spent my birthday in a different European country each year. In 2011 it was Germany, followed by Italy and San Marino in 2012 (yup, I spent my birthday in two different countries that year!), Greece in 2013 and Albania in 2014. This […]
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Idstein, DE The first time we went to Idstein was a few years ago for their Christmas market. We could see that it was a great town with fabulous half-timbered houses, but it was so crowded for the market that we couldn’t really stroll around and enjoy the sites. We […]
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Gouda, Netherlands If you are a cheese lover, you absolutely must visit the city of Gouda in the Netherlands at least once in your life. If you haven’t already guessed, it’s the home of Gouda cheese. In Dutch, Gouda is pronounced something like “How-duh”, hence the exceedingly clever title of […]
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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 lot more to it than the UNESCO site. We started off our weekend in Kassel […]
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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 to walk along the river and through the town when we visited. We made the […]
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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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