On our way home from a trip to Luxembourg City last weekend (to be discussed in a later post), Brian and I decided to take a side trip to Trier, which really couldn’t have been more “on the way.” Trier is located in Western Germany, just 40 minutes by car from Luxembourg City. I didn’t…
Recently, Erin and I rented a car and drove to Luxembourg City. It was a new country for both of us, but to be honest, I expected the city to be like any other wealthy, multi-cultural European city – indistinguishable from some of the others (Basel comes to mind as an example). Fortunately, I…
Erin and I both teach on occasion in Waldkirch, a small town to the northeast of Freiburg. The train station there sits on the edge of the town, and just beyond it is a hill with a medieval castle. We can see the castle every time we walk back to the station from class, and…
One of the best things about living in Germany is getting to visit small towns that you might not get to on a shorter trip, and seeing what makes them unique. Erin and I have been to beautiful Konstanz twice now (in October and December), so I thought I’d highlight it.
The holidays are truly an awesome time to be in Europe. It has everything you could ever want, from cold weather (Florida girl here!), to miles of lights decorating the city’s buildings and streets, to Christmas Markets! The only thing missing was my family, but we were lucky enough to have Brian’s family come visit…
Sometimes, Brian and I have to pinch ourselves because of how lucky we are. Just 4 days after getting back from an amazing Thanksgiving in London, we were setting off via train to Paris to visit my uncle and aunt from Maryland! Side note: fast trains are mind blowing. We topped out at 315 km/hour…
We really should stop disappearing for weeks on end, don’t you think? I call it the “Instant Social Media Syndrome,” in which we post pictures and updates on Facebook and Instagram and think that everyone can see them. I forget there’s a world out there where Facebook doesn’t occupy multiple hours per day – it…
We made the trip to Munich for Oktoberfest this weekend, and as fun as I thought it was going to be, it was even more fun than that.
In an earlier post, I described my desire to try all of the world’s ice cream flavors, and how this got in the way of simply enjoying my favorite flavor, mint. Well, it’s time for an update. First of all, it turns out that I should not have been getting mint each time all along.…
I love ice cream. I love it so much that I’m quite confident in saying that, over the course of my life, the days in which I’ve eaten ice cream outnumber the days in which I haven’t, and yes, that’s including years 0-2 (ish), when you don’t eat any ice cream at all. It’s one…
The Wildly Ordinary Life 