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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After we left Ypres, we headed to the city of Antwerp in Belgium for 2 nights. Although the city is mainly known for its diamond trade, there is a lot more to it than that. Antwerp is a vastly underrated city that you should definitely visit on a trip to […]
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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 stop in Quedlinburg, whose old town is part of a UNESCO site. The town of […]
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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 you would choose to go see the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Of course I was interested […]
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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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The last full day of our long weekend in northern Germany started off with a drive to Wismar. Like Stralsund LINK and Lübeck LINK, the two other cities we’d visited over the weekend, Wismar is known for its Brick Gothic architecture. Along with Stralsund, Wismar makes up one half of […]
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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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