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Waiter, there’s a spider in my wine!
The search for the perfect restaurant is not a quest of ours, but dining out for 48 consecutive days and it’s easy to become a bit critical. The lighting is either too bright, or too dark. Ambient music is non-existent, or ear shattering top 40 blasting from a distracting 42inch LCD in the corner. The…
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The Size of Your Suitcase
I was warned before we departed that we are likely taking too much. Well, with everything packed up again it means we’re about to endure the ear hammering rattle of these Chinese-made roller wheels across cobbles. Only light and durable luggage from now on. Big wheels and handles are good. A colour that says, “Hey…look…
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A Series of Moments
The realization of where you are at a particular moment can be a bit of a shock. To really take it all in and describe the minute details effectively to someone, usually results in the “you just had to be there” response. This isn’t a joke though, and it is those moments strung together, that…
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The Kids Are Still Alright
How the time seems to just keep on slippin’, slippin’ into the future. Maybe Melanie can break into that for her next karaoke breakout. Being as we have now been on the road for now 40 days, and 40 nights…40 is just a number and in reality it’s almost a full 6 weeks. With that…
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How to: Vacation Apartment Rentals
So you’re thinking of renting an apartment, townhouse, villa, or hut on the beach instead of doing the usual hotel thing for your next vacation. The question is where to start and how to do it. I won’t say we’re experts by any means. We have ventured out of the comfort zone that Expedia, Travelocity…
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Surfing in the Garten, no Sheep
Yesterday was all about the autumn garden stroll through the Englischer Garten. For those of us Anglophiles, that’s English Garden. Apparently a park modeled on the erratic placement of trees and informality, a departure from typical structured gardening. Although created well before the two world wars, no where have I found any mention of the…
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Incessant Church Bells
Alright, so six days into neighboring St. Maximillian church and I still haven’t figured out the rationale behind church bell ringing. They do seem to start at 06:00 and sometimes finish at 22:00, but that might only be once a week, or I have been far too exhausted to be woken by the bells at…
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10 steps from Munich to Neuschwanstein Castle!
This will be a bit of a departure from the regular tale of traveling woe so common in previous posts. Maybe this could be used in the future to direct lost souls like ourselves. You want to do a day trip from Munich. How about Munich to Neuschwanstein Castle? One way is to simply look…
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Nipply Cold in Munich
Vacation…but so miserably cold and wet out there that it’s tough to clamber out of bed. ‘Clamber’…probably with german origins, but likely only used in the phrase above. We’re in a tiny little apartment this time. Clean, simple, brand new being only 2 months old. Have a look for 31 Westermuhlstrasse and your little google…