The Other Half of That UNESCO Site
The last full day of our long weekend in northern Germany started off with a drive to Wismar. Like Stralsund and Lübeck, the two other cities we’d visited over the weekend, Wismar is known for […]
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A Look Around Lübeck
The day after we visited Stralsund we toured the city of Lübeck, located in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. For a couple of hundred years, Lübeck was known as the “Queen” of the Hanseatic League, a […]
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How Do You Visit Half of a UNESCO Site?
Even though the 4th of July is not a holiday in Germany, I still get the day off as a U.S. Federal government employee. I also had off on the 3rd to make it a […]
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That Big Yellow Castle
Schloss Montabaur is a castle that is visible from one of the autobahns that we frequently travel. Its yellow color makes it quite noticeable, and after a couple of years of saying “We should go […]
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Where Does Seltzer Water Come From?
We recently visited the town of Niederselters, which has a mineral spring and is a district in the Selters area of Germany. In the 18th century, the town began shipping water from this spring all […]
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Shoe Lasts in Alfeld
No, the title of this post does not contain a grammatical error, nor does it mean this is a post about the durability of one shoe in the German town of Alfeld. A shoe last is an actual thing that […]
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A Reconstructed City Center in Hildesheim
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 […]
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City of Beer
One of the biggest beer festivals in Germany is the Bergkirchweih in the Bavarian town of Erlangen. The Bergkirchweih is an open-air festival that takes place for 12 days every year and attracts about a […]
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Umbrellas and Winston Churchill in France
The day after we attended the ceremony for the 70th anniversary of D-Day, we visited a couple of other towns in the area. As I mentioned in the D-Day post, we had been to Normandy before. […]
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D-Day, 70 Years Later
We were lucky enough to be living in Europe on June 6th, 2014. That day marked the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the day of the Allied invasion at the beaches of Normandy, France. When […]
