Category: Europe

We are both fans of the movie but Karen is a much bigger fan. The following is pure tourist kitsch. You’ve been warned. It’s amazing how complicated the filming is. They used one house...

We spent a few days in Salzburg Austria. Salzburg is know for Mozart and the Sound of Music (next post) but it has a lot more to offer. Founded in 696, it was not...

How Weird? This Weird! Surfing in the oddly named Englischer Garten (English Garden) in downtown Munich. From old-but-rebuilt stuff, an everchanging coat of arms, weird church relics, to a spontaneous Michael Jackson tribute

Today we visited Neuschwanstein castle built by the allegedly mad King Ludwig II and visited one of the longest alpine coasters in the world. In between Karen had a burger the size of her...

I felt like a trespasser being in Dachau. I guess it’s important to see our failures. Dachau wasn’t the worst camp but it was the first. It was the blueprint for the more horrific...

We stopped by Wurzburg to see the Residenz a Baroque palace and then continued to Rothenburg Ob Der Tauber (Red Castle above the Tauber). Rothenburg is the prettiest place we have been in Germany...

Our next river to explore was the mighty Rhine. We visited Koblenz (which means confluence) where the Mosel and the Rhine join. We then spent a couple of nights in Sankt Goarshausen (right across...

We spent 3 nights in the cute little town of Cochem on the Mosel river. It was nice to slow down a bit and we really relaxed here. We had our first traditional German...

We stopped in Trier for the night since it was on the route and spent the morning exploring. What a great surprise. This former Roman city of Augusta Treverorum is considered Germany’s oldest city. It...