An afternoon in Alsace, France

An afternoon in Alsace, France

One of the perks of living in Europe (and especially Germany) is that traveling to another country is often very quick and painless. Some friends of ours, Daniel and Henny, live in Karlsruhe (about 1.5 hours from us) which is only about 20 minutes from Alsace. The...

Just out driving around

We decided to take a little outing this morning and drove over to the nearest Raiffeisen farm supply store (Hanauer Straße 52, 61130 Nidderau-Ostheim, Tel: (0 61 87) 93 92 90). We recently discovered that they are one of the few places  around here that carry charcoal...

It wasn’t jumping when it got to me

While we were in Bavaria this weekend, we went to a nice little restaurant called Schlossgasthof zur Einkehr [(Haggn 26, 94362 Neukirchen, Tel: (09961) 701170)]. It’s a place the in-laws have been to several times and they always enjoyed it so we went to check...