Twelve Towns in Two and A Half Years
In this blog post, 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 of the road […]
Archive for category: Germany
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Castles in the Sky
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 […]
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Nine Towns In Four Years
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 has 7 sections and the one we completed, called “From the […]
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The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
One of the best times of year in Germany, if not the best, is Christmas market time. This year, for the first time, we did a week-long Christmas market trip to celebrate the season. The trip […]
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Something’s Brewing in Lich
As everyone knows, the town of Lich, Germany is famous for being the home of the Licher Brewery. Yup, those are cases and cases of Licher beer behind the unfortunately locked gate at the brewery. […]
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The Witching Hour
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 […]
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A Fishy Business
Gernsheim is a small town on the Rhine river that started out as a little Roman fishing village about two thousand years ago. Sean found out about Gernsheim last February when we were looking for something […]
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My Hat’s Off To You
You know those hats that have a brim, and a band around them, and what looks like a dent on top of the hat in the middle? Like the one that Al Pacino wore in […]
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Say “Messel Fossil Pit” Ten Times Fast
One of my goals while living in Germany is to visit every one of its UNESCO World Heritage Sites. As of today there are 40 sites, and we’ve been to 28 of them. The Messel […]
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Still Not Tired Of Half-Timbered Houses
On a cold but sunny, blue-skied day this past winter, we took a drive to the town of Babenhausen. Babenhausen obtained city rights way back in the year 1295 – 720 years ago this year […]
