Category: Germany

  • For spring break we all met up in Germany and traveled a couple hours into the mountains. Not your typical spring break location but Bea was still confined to Germany waiting for her student residence permit (more on that at the bottom). We stayed in a town called Oberstdorf which is in the Allgäu region…

  • Translation: Best Bavarian Benches. Bea has been sharing her collection of bench photos with me. Lovely photos and lots of opportunity for quiet contemplation but I wonder if my wanderer daughter actually stops to sit. I suspect she marches on on her quest to travel all the mountain paths in Bavaria.

  • I still have more photos to preserve here on my blog. Photos from our trip to Munich. Bea wanted to take us into the mountains for a hike but I was exhausted and afraid she had a death march in mind. So just she and Brian went to a nearby mountian-y area. Then. a couple…

  • We don’t have many strict holiday traditions – the main thing is our evening revolves around cheese. But first a few extra photos. When I’m in Munich, with Bea, I’m in awe of their transportation system. Right outside her apartment building you can catch an underground train or a tram or a bus. I feel…

  • So this year Christmas was different. Bea is waiting for her student visa and she is advised not to leave Germany. So we had to go to her. I know the day will come where I don’t get to spend Christmas Day with my kids but I was NOT ready for that day yet. We…