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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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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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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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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A Hidden Gem Did you know that the Oxo company, of bouillon cube fame, was founded by a man who was an apprentice in Heppenheim, Germany? That of course was not the main reason for our visit to that town. It was just a fun fact that we learned while […]
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There is a famous epic German poem called The Nibelungenlied (say that three times quickly!) or The Song of the Nibelungs. I’ve actually read most of the poem – as an English translation – but for some reason have yet to finish it. Anyway, one of the main characters in […]
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The first German building placed on the UNESCO World Heritage site was the Aachen Cathedral in, of course, the city of Aachen. Aachen is about a 2.5 hour drive from us, so rather than get up at the crack of dawn for a day trip that would involve a 5-hour […]
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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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The last weekend in January we made an unexpected visit to the city of Bitburg. I say unexpected because we originally were supposed to go to Verdun, France for 2 days. I just need to mention that I was not the one who made the arrangements for this trip and […]
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Amiens, France is another place I’d wanted to visit for a long time after reading about it a couple of years ago. It’s about 75 miles away from Paris and was a 5-hour drive for us. We visited there the first weekend in January. We left Thursday night after work […]
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