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 […]
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What To Do On a Long Layover in Frankfurt
Do You Have Time to Spend Away From Frankfurt Airport? Frankfurt Airport is one of the busiest in Germany. If you are travelling to Europe, and especially to Germany, there’s a good chance you’ll have a layover in this massive, sprawling […]
Tulip Festival Parade in the Netherlands – A Photo Essay
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 flower parade highlights everything Dutch as well as floats and […]
How And Where To Go – Chasing Holland Tulips
Dutch 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 flower fields are an […]
Pedaling the Bike Trails of Hoge Veluwe
A Park for Bikes, How Dutch! 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, […]
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 […]
Scott Kelby’s 6th Annual Worldwide Photowalk in Luxembourg City
We had a blast at the Scott Kelby Worldwide Photowalk! Last Saturday was Scott Kelby’s 6th Annual Worldwide Photo Walk. It is one of my favorite events of the year. I didn’t get started until the fourth photowalk, and […]