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 […]
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Fiets Don’t Fail Me Now
Because I’m always talking about how much I love the Netherlands, my parents wanted to go there while they were here visiting us. It fell to me to pick a place to go, and I […]
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Days of Wine and Roses
While my parents were here visiting over the summer we took them to the town of Eltville am Rhein, or Eltville for short. “Am Rhein” means “on the Rhine” and it was a beautiful […]
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The Word That Lies Like A Rug
Late-night television talk show host David Letterman once famously described “carpet” as the word that lies like a rug, because it is neither a car nor a pet. I can’t remember what I had for […]
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A Capital Time in Lithuania
To celebrate our 17th wedding anniversary, we spent a long weekend in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. Lithuania has been an independent country for less than 25 years. Walking around enjoying the city, whose old town […]
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The Biggest Funfair on the Rhine
The biggest funfair on the Rhine, called the Rheinkirmes in German, takes places every July in Düsseldorf. We had wanted to go to Düsseldorf anyway, so we used the excuse of the funfair to plan […]
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A Festival With A Twist
Did you know that pretzels were invented by German monks? Well that’s one theory, anyway, although most agree that they were invented at some monastery or another in Europe. The town of Speyer in Germany […]
