The Candy Bomber and the Berlin Airlift Memorial
Continuing the theme I wrote about in the last post, shortly after our trip to Berlin we took a ride to see the Berlin Airlift Memorial near Frankfurt Airport. After World War II, the […]
Archive for category: Germany
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The Fall Of The Wall – 25 Years Later
I will probably get flogged for saying this, but I didn’t love Berlin the first and only time we went there. It was before we moved to Germany and was one stop on a European […]
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Half A Timber Is Better Than None
Germany has more scenic routes than you can shake a stick at. You can choose to follow the Fairy Tale Route, the Asparagus Route, the Porcelain Route, the Silver Mines Route, the Romantic Road, the […]
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A Look Back At 2014
2014 was another fun travel year for us, although I did slow down a little bit in attempting to reach my goal of visiting every country in Europe. I added only three countries to the list […]
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Germany’s Newest UNESCO Site
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 […]
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The Pied Piper
On the way back to our hotel after visiting the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, we stopped in the town of Celle to find a nice place to have dinner for Sean’s birthday. Celle is another town […]
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Bergen-Belsen Memorial
For Sean’s birthday weekend, one of the things he wanted to do was to go see the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Of course I was interested in seeing it as well; it’s just not something I […]
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It’s Mines, All Mines!
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 […]
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The Heart of the Harz
If a person can get sick of visiting cute little German towns that are full of half-timbered houses, it hasn’t happened to me yet. We spent a weekend visiting some towns in the Harz Mountains […]
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Visiting Kassel And A Castle
Kassel, Germany had been on my list of places to visit because there is a UNESCO site there called Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe. Once I started researching the area, though, I realized there was a lot more […]
