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 […]
Category: German Cities
Posts listed alphabetically by city:
Bad Kissingen
The Way of Reflection (Weg Der Besinnung) in Bad Kissingen
Bamberg
Do’s and Don’ts: Our First Impressions of Bamberg, Germany
The Christmas Market and Nativity Trail in Bamberg, Germany
Berlin
The Berlin Bears
Berlin, I Love Your Trash Cans
Ebrach
Visiting the Baumwipfelpfad Steigerwald
Erfurt
Half-Timbered Houses in Erfurt
Gemünden
Our Impromptu Trip to Gemünden am Main
Hildesheim
Walking Along the Rose Route in Hildesheim, Germany.
Karlsruhe
Visiting Karlsruhe, Germany
Mannheim
Mannheim and the Revolving Tower Restaurant
Nuremberg
A Great Time at the Nuremberg Volksfest
More Photos of the Nuremberg Volksfest
7 Tips for Visiting the Nuremberg Christmas Markets
Rothenburg ob der Tauber
Walking Along the Wall of Rothenburg ob der Tauber
Schweinfurt
The Pigs of Schweinfurt
6 Thoughts I Had at the Schweinfurt Fish Market
The Schweinfurt Volksfest and About Our Next Coaster Trip
Stuttgart
The 6 Best Things About Our Trip to Stuttgart
Worms
Worms, Germany: Proof That Smaller Cities Can Be Full of History, Too
Würzburg
6 Delightful Experiences We Had in Würzberg
7 Curious Experiences We Had in Würzberg, Germany
The Spring Fun Fair in Würzburg
The Würzburg Christmas Markets
The Spring Fun Fair in Würzburg.
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 […]
6 Thoughts I Had at the Schweinfurt Fish Market.
1. Is this just an excuse to have another festival? Probably. 2. Wait a minute, this might be an excuse to sit outside and drink lots of beer. That’s more likely. 3. Why is there a giant pirate ship? I don’t know. But they serve beer. 4. Is that Linkin Park that I hear blasting? Yes, and it’s coming from the merri-go-round… 5. Can I ride this?? YES!!! I can and I did and it was awesome. Mr. Meena might […]
A Typical Day in Our Hotel.
Have you ever lived in a hotel? We’re seven months into our stay in one and it’s testing my sanity a little bit. This is how a typical weekday goes. 5:30am: Mr. Stomp Stomp, our upstairs neighbor, wakes up and begins stomping back and forth in his bedroom, directly above my side of the bed. I wonder what he is doing. 5:45am: Mr. Meena’s alarm goes off and he slowly wakes up (he is not a morning person at all). I […]
The Schweinfurt Pigs.
I started learning about the Schweinfurt pigs the day that we got the offer to move there. There isn’t a lot of information about Schweinfurt available online (you can read most of it in about an hour) and the pigs were the only thing that was interesting to me at the time. It was my one fun fact to share when I told people about the small German town that we were moving to (because 99.9% of people had no idea […]
Our Impromptu Trip to Gemünden am Main.
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 […]
Worms, Germany: Proof That Smaller Cities Can Be Full of History, Too.
One of the most interesting things about Worms, Germany, is that the Diet of Worms was held there. The Diet was an assembly held in 1521 that addressed Martin Luther’s revolutionary works (such as ‘The 95 Theses’, ‘On the Papacy at Rome’, and ‘On the Freedom of a Christian’, to name a few). After being questioned by the assembly and given a day to consider his response, Luther gave his famous “Here I Stand” speech that resulted in his excommunication […]
Visiting Karlsruhe, Germany.
Visiting Karlsruhe was the driving force behind our three city weekend tour (see our first stop in Mannheim). Mr. Meena has been excited for several months about a new American Western film called ‘The Hateful Eight’. It’s special because the producer used 70 mm film and cinematography equipment from the 1960s called Ultra Panavision. Due to the equipment used and the wider than usual screen image (2.76:1 aspect ratio as opposed to 1.33:1), this is a film that must be […]
Lunch Break in Mannheim, Germany.
Mannheim was a convenient layover on our weekend train journey to Karlsruhe. We had just enough time for lunch, so we decided to head to one of the coolest lunch spots in the city. Enter the Fernmedleturm Tower – a telecommunication tower that stands over 700 feet tall. It was built in the 1970s and sits on the banks of the Neckar river. We took the lift up to the Skyline restaurant, which is a revolving restaurant that sits at 400 […]
The 6 Best Things About Our Trip to Stuttgart.
Like most of our journeys, this one started at the train station. Instead of purchasing our usual Bavarian regional train ticket we bought the Quer-durchs-Land one that lets us travel anywhere in Germany for a flat rate. Although there are 16 German states we’ve only managed to visit the one that we live in so far (aside from when we’ve flown in and out of Frankfurt). This was our first trip to Baden-Württemberg and it was fitting that we were […]