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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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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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, located near the town of Höxter. It was originally a monastery complex built in the […]
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Hildesheim is a city in Northern Germany that is home to a UNESCO site called St. Mary’s Cathedral and St. Michael’s Church. I’m not quite sure why UNESCO lumps sites together like that as they are several blocks apart. In any case, we visited both St. Mary’s and St. Michael’s […]
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As I mentioned in the Alkmaar post , we spent 4 nights in Leiden over the Memorial Day weekend. Our second full day there was spent making another side trip, this time to three UNESCO World Heritage Site locations. Although there are 10 UNESCO sites listed for the Netherlands as […]
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Madrid, Spain I had 4 days off for the Presidents’ Day weekend in February and thought it might be nice to take that opportunity to visit Madrid. Sean booked an apartment that was pretty central. The downside to renting apartments is that you don’t get breakfast or any other meals […]
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Braubach, DE The weekend after we returned from Florence, we stayed somewhat local and visited Marksburg Castle. It’s located in the town of Braubach, which is just over an hour away from us. The first glimpse we got of the castle was just as we were approaching the town. We […]
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