Walking the Streets of Rudesheim

Walking the Streets of Rudesheim

A couple of weeks ago, a friend of ours from college visited us for a few days. He didn’t really have any specific agenda in mind, so we decided to take him down to Rüdesheim for a quick tour of the city. It’s got to be one of the most well known tourist...
Walking the Streets of Rudesheim

You’re so pretty

The name of the game for You Capture this week is “pretty.” And while I’d generally take shots of Mack and nature around us, I thought it would be nice to showcase some of the pretty stuff we saw at Hessenpark this past weekend. Hessenpark is a...

Hanau’s Soap Box Derby

By chance, we found out that this past weekend, not too far from our home, Germany’s largest soap box derby (Seifenkistenrennen) was taking place. The Hanauer Seifenkistenrennen has apparently been going on for many, MANY years (at least since Stefan was a kid)...
Walking the Streets of Rudesheim

10 Reasons I Have Been Slacking

I have been making an effort to post more quality over quantity posts the last few weeks. And you probably noticed that last week I neglected to post anything at all. That was mostly because we had some friends visiting from out of town. But we weren’t really...
Shopping local taking hold of Germany

Shopping local taking hold of Germany

It may not come as a huge surprise to you that a lot of people in Germany shop at weekly farmer’s markets for their foods. But what you may not have realized is that not all of the food you are buying at these markets (whether they are open air or more permanent...