Like nomads, but with more stuff

We knew we wanted to walk the walls of Rothenburg as we hadn't had a chance to do that on our previous trip. It was absolutely fan...

The oldest monastic brewery in the world is essentially right between Garmisch and Rothenburg, so it was a perfect lunch stop. The loca...

Day 8 was mostly the long, long, drive from Freiburg to Munich. When we got to Munich it was chilly and a little bit raining, so we too...

We went to the Black Forest to eat Black Forest cake and Black Forest ham. We really had no idea what we were doing during this part of...

Felsenmeer means in German "Sea of Rocks."  Oh, yes. About an hour south of Frankfurt is an amazing boulder field , apparently ...

Trier was a surprise hit on the epic road trip, and the ampitheater was a surprise hit in Trier. I'm not sure what I was expecting,...

From Burg Eltz we headed, wearily, for our stop for the night, Cochem. We had great plans for Cochem, but in the end visited neither t...

From Cologne we planned some time in the Mosel River area, ostensibly for some more wine tasting although in the end we decided to keep...

We reached Cologne on Easter Sunday, which was fitting for the city whose most iconic sight to see is a cathedral. We wandered around...

For our second day trip, we hit the wineries. The weather was absolutely stunning, which was a wonderful reason to wander among the vin...

We brought in reinforcements for our last epic road trip - good friends who came to visit. It meant the kids never had to...

About an hour from Frankfurt is a forest. I mean, there's forests a whole lot closer too. But one small stretch of this forest contains...

From Wroclaw we returned one final time to Germany. Dresden has been on the top of Terry's "to visit" list since reading Slau...

When Terry was here for the kids' last vacation, we had a weekend in town before leaving for Malta. Wanting to get out a bit more tha...

Next stop was Rothenberg ob der Tauber. It is highly recommended among the Frankfurt Consulate Community and I had been saving the trip to ...

The morning after our return from K ö ln we hopped in the car and headed down to Heidelberg. I had such high hopes for Heidelberg!!  BUT ot...

Terry was here for the kids' winter holiday (which is still ongoing, entering its third week, dear Lord will we survive this much toget...

Friends invited us to accompany them to the "Apfel Fest" in Kronberg that boasted 100 different varieties of apples. Like Milli V...

On Labor Day weekend (not a holiday for the kids) we ventured over to Bad Homburg to check out the Roman fort. Having spent time in norther...

With the advent of the children, the tourism has commenced. Before Terry left we managed a trip out to Rüdesheim to do the usual "rund...