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The Spring Fun Fair in Würzburg.

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When I found out about the Frühjahrsmesse & Frühjahrsvolksfest (Spring Fair & Festival) happening in Würzburg I knew we couldn’t miss it.  It’s been a long winter without much to do nearby, and we hadn’t visited Würzburg since the Christmas Markets were in town. The fair starts three weeks before Easter and is the first big fair in Bavaria.  According to the Würzburg city website, the amusement park has some 50 attractions and plenty of food and drink options (including […]

The Würzburg Christmas Markets.

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Last Sunday we had our fourth German Christmas Market experience in the nearby city of Würzburg.  We’ve visited the small market where we live in Schweinfurt as well as the markets in Munich and Nuremberg.  I attempted to research what to do and see at the Würzburg Christmas Markets but I could find little other than the dates and the mention of a special artisans market. So we just had to go experience it for ourselves. It wasn’t surprising that […]

Visiting the Baumwipfelpfad Steigerwald – an Incredible Treetop Path in Bavaria, Germany.

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A little over a year ago I had the great pleasure of visiting the Baumwipfelpfad Steigerwald in Bavaria with a dear friend of mine.  You may be asking, “The Baumwipfelp… uh, what?”  Well, “Baumwipfelpfad” is German for treetop path and “Steigerwald” is simply a region of Germany, which includes the Steigerwald Nature Park.  But the term ‘treetop path’ doesn’t fully describe just how awesome this attraction truly is. Visiting the Baumwipfelpfad Steigerwald. The Baumwipfelpfad Steigerwald is located in Ebrach, which […]

The Value of Fleeting Friendships While Traveling.

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Sitting on a train in Thuringia we received a resolute “nein” from the train conductor – the kind that meant we had made an expensive mistake.  To our dismay we were informed that the “Regio120” train ticket we had purchased was not actually a regional ticket.  As we tried to work out a resolution amid frustrations about the vague Deutsche Bahn guidelines that have fooled us twice now, a young woman turned around in her seat to help us communicate […]

A Day in the Life: Expat in Small Town Germany.

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“A day in the life” posts have become really popular on Imgur (an online image sharing community); people all over the world have been taking photos throughout a normal day of their life and sharing them.  The Imgur blog said the following about this idea: As we go about our daily routines, we rarely stop to consider how fascinating our lives may be to others. Our homes, the commute to work or school, what we have for dinner, and how we […]

The Schweinfurt Volksfest and About Our Next Coaster Trip.

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I’m not going to pretend like Schweinfurt’s Volksfest was impressive, because it wasn’t.  At least not after we’d already been to the larger ones in Würzburg and Nürnberg.  I was also a bit upset when I realized the people running the Schweinfurt Facebook page were using photos of the Volksfest from the previous year (without stating that they were doing so), which led me to believe there were different rides available than there actually were. But it’s not every day […]

A Great Time at the Nuremberg Volksfest.

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After our eye-opening trip to the Würzburg Volksfest we knew that we wanted to make the most of the larger one happening later on in Nuremberg.  We decided to spend most of our Saturday there even though we were leaving for Amsterdam early the next morning – and I’m glad we did.  We arrived early via regional train, stopped briefly at the (very disappointing) Nuremberg Easter Market, and then made it to the fairgrounds nearly an hour before the attractions […]

Love Locks in Germany.

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Germans aren’t exactly known for being romantic, but all the love locks throughout the country would suggest that there is plenty of romance going on in the land of beer and sausage.  The tradition of love locks has been around for a century or so but Europe didn’t start seeing them in large numbers until the early 2000’s.  While they are meant to be a sweet gesture or symbol of lasting love, the locks have caused quite a controversy in some places.  Fortunately we’ve […]

Street Art / Graffiti in Germany.

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I expected to see strange things during our life in Germany, but I can’t say that prolific graffiti was one of them.  At first it was startling to see street art and/or graffiti on nearly every surface.  The paint isn’t just on the  buildings and walls, it’s on the streetlights, the electrical boxes, even the commuter trains.  According to the The German Way, the issue of graffiti in Berlin alone causes 35-50 million euros of property damage annually. Some cities actually provide […]

Our Impromptu Trip to Gemünden am Main.

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We woke up early on Sunday morning excited about our plans to visit Erlangen.  The Deutsche Bahn had other plans for us, however; plans that included taking a train to Bamberg, boarding a bus for an hour or so to another train stop, and then taking a train to Erlangen.  This train-bus-train thing didn’t really float our boat so we decided to try again next week since the issue probably won’t last long (we think that the train tracks were […]