Tag: Half Timbered Houses

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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Sorry, We’re Closed

Lorsch & Maulbronn UNESCO Sites, DE After we visited Amiens, France a couple of weeks ago and realized that the cathedral there is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, I went on the UNESCO website to see which other sites I had visited.  Turns out I’ve been to about 50 of […]

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Aschaffenburg, DE

Aschaffenburg is a town in the German state of Bavaria that’s about 45 minutes away from where we live in the German state of Hesse. I had wanted to go there for a while, so on the lazy, rainy weekend after Christmas we took a Sunday drive to go check […]

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Dinkelsbühl, DE, The Romantic Road

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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