This weekend, we decided to take a little family outing. The weather is quickly progressing towards fall here and it was a bit chilly out, plus it's been raining off and on for about a week now. But thankfully we managed to make it through the entire Frankfurt Zoo...
Alright, I intended to post these yesterday...but well, there just wasn't time. So you get them as a dose of Friday fun instead! These were all shot during the Saturday night parade here in our village. It's always a great time and there was a really nice turnout this...
This year our Lantern Fest celebration was a bit more subdued than in other years. We didn't have as many people visiting and we just weren't as excited as usual about the festivities leading up to the weekend...but we did still manage to have a lot of fun. And it's...
Hi puppy friends! Hope you had a fabulous Fourth of July weekend (if you're in the US) and a lovely regular, plain old weekend if you're living elsewhere like me. Actually, we're having a pretty exciting week because we are at Oma & Opa's house and there are a...
Opel Zoo (website: www.opel-zoo.de, Königsteiner Straße 35, 61476 Kronberg, Tel. 06173/ 325903-0) is one of two zoos in here the Frankfurt area. The other, Frankfurt Zoo, is located in downtown Frankfurt and is your more traditional sort of zoo with seals, snake...
Hello world! Since I didn't really know what to write about today (it's been a quiet week), mom said maybe I could just share some photos of spring. I think she hopes it will serve as a reminder to the current weather that it is actually almost June and temps above...
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...
I had the "pleasure" of visiting the US Embassy in Frankfurt this morning. Lucky for us it's only about 20 minutes drive when there's no traffic but since I had to be there at 7:15am, it was an unusually early up-and-out-of-the-house morning for me. As if fate would...
It seems like the winter vacation we took to East Germany was ages ago now, but somehow I still didn't manage to say everything about it that I wanted to about it. I talked about our guest house, shared a bunch of photos from one of our walks and the trip to the...
Stefan has been thinking about getting a new car for commuting. You may remember that he bought a motorcycle a few years ago to cut back on parking fees and gas costs. But when you have to wear a suit everyday, it's not really practical...and the weather here in...
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