Are you looking for a fun day out? One of our favorite places to just romp, have fun, and throw in a little history-learning is Saalburg Roman Fort. A quick 30 minutes from the center of Frankfurt, it’s a great […]
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Our Guide To The Top Open Air Museums For Kids In Germany
Visit Open Air Museums to Step Back in Time What’s better than learning about a culture, traipsing about an outdoor museum, maybe learning how to farm, bake bread, or sail, all with a hands-on experience? I don’t think there is […]
Things To Do On a Long Layover in Frankfurt
Frankfurt Airport is one of the busiest in Germany. If you are traveling to Europe, and especially to Germany, there’s a good chance you’ll have a layover in this massive, sprawling airport. So how can you spend your time? What […]
Tulip Festival in the Netherlands
The Amazing Bloemencorso or Dutch Flower Parade When you think of the Netherlands, so many iconic things come to mind. There are wooden shoes, tulips, windmills, and bikes! The annual tulip festival and flower parade highlights everything Dutch as well […]
The Best Places to See Dutch Tulips
Dutch Flowers, especially their Tulips, are World Famous! Let’s face it, there’s two main things tourists want to see when they go to Holland, tulips and windmills. I have to say, I’m not the exception to that rule! Dutch tulip […]
Pedaling the Bike Trails of Hoge Veluwe
We lived in the Netherlands from 2000 until 2002, and we learned how to enjoy the Dutch way of life. For example, the love of bikes. They use bikes for everything from commuting to leisure, and boy do they know […]
Letting Our Hair Down at Rapunzel’s Castle – Mespelbrunn
A Visit to a Fairy Tale Castle – Schloss Mespelbrunn Only a few kilometers off of the A3 between Frankfurt and Würzburg, sits Mespelbrunn castle. This castle is still privately owned, but open to the public for tours, weddings, or renting […]
The Amazing Flower Petal Mosaics of the Netherlands
A Flowering Art Surprise! When we drove the Bollenstreek, we had no idea of some of the events and customs surrounding the flower season. Our goal was to take in spring; its brilliant colors, its fresh aromas, its Vitamin D. […]
It’s Tulip Time in the Netherlands!
A Drive on the Bollenstreek (Bulb Region)! What is more Dutch than tulips? We took a short road trip up to the tulip region of the Netherlands, and with fantastic sun and clear skies, we traipsed in and out of […]
Edam Cheese Market Square
It’s All About the Cheese! As you know, we love cheese, and I think that love affair began with Dutch cheese. Maybe it’s not as stinky as French cheese or as famous and expensive as Swiss cheese, but it is […]
Electric Boating Through Giethoorn Canals
The village of Giethoorn lies on the edge of a large watershed home to many wild animals and prolific birdlife. The village has been around for a few hundred years or so and has a lovely feel with it’s […]
Walking through Kinderdijk, A UNESCO World Heritage Site
There’s just something about a mill. Water or wind, no matter its purpose, humankind’s ability to harness the natural power and energy around us is almost magical. We’ve seen mills for pressing olives into oil,grinding grain into grist, cutting logs […]