November is the start of a fun time here in Germany for festivals as the Christmas Markets start! This will be a list of November Festivals and Events, there are many to chose from, this list has 17! We had a great time checking out the October Festivals, if you missed them add them to your calendar for next year. Again these are generally no more than 3 hours away, although I may throw in one or [Read more…]
Affenberg Salem also known as Monkey Hill is located in Salem, Germany has free range monkeys in 20 acre sanctuary. People enjoy visiting here because you can walk freely among them and feed them popcorn. They also have these amazing storks that have large nests along the tops of the buildings. This is a great place to visit for some family fun, it’s also open on Sundays so that can be helpful as [Read more…]
The Ritter Sport Chocolate Museum in Waldenbuch, Germany is a neat little place to visit. The museum is really just a small exhibition but it’s free and pretty interesting! If your in the area it’s worth stopping by and checking out.
The Ritter Sport Factory is located across the street but it is not open to the public.
Parking was easy to find, however Mr. B decided to squeeze us into a small [Read more…]
When I heard that Technik Museum Speyer, which is in Speyer, Germany had slides coming down from some of the display planes I wanted to go check it out on our weekend trip in Stuttgart. While the displays were neat and they had some interesting stuff we found that it is overpriced and the most fun was found at the playground outside the museum. However if you have someone in your family who is really [Read more…]
Since we were going to be so close to the Switzerland border I had to plan for us to go see Rhine Falls in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland ! This was our 11th country we have visited so far! It was 50 minutes from Monkey Mountain in Salem, Germany (LINK). It is also Europe’s largest plain waterfall. I have to say that since we lived in Iceland for 2 years we haven’t generally been impressed by [Read more…]
The Ludwigsburg Pumpkin Exhibition at the Blooming Baroque (Blühenden Barock) in Ludwigsburg, Germany is said to be the world’s largest pumpkin event, there are over 400,000 pumpkins used! It runs from the beginning of October to the start of November. For 2014 it is open Oct. 5th – Nov. 2nd. So if you haven’t visited yet you still have time.
Some have called it a pumpkin festival, but as far as [Read more…]
Did you know that your German dishwasher needs salt?! I had NO clue! Seriously we have lived in our house for 7 months and I just realized this! Sure I’ve heard others talk about putting salt in their dishwasher, but I guess I just thought it didn’t apply to mine!
Your first clue that you may need to add salt is that your dishes may not be drying well. I just chalked it up to living in Germany and [Read more…]
After visiting the Hitscherhof Pumpkin Festival we wanted to check out Burg Trifels since it was only 40 minutes away. Burg Trifels has some history which makes it worth visiting. It’s said that Richard the Lionhart was captured and held captive here from 1193-1194. It is also said that the treasure room once held the Holy Grail. It is also the only one left of the 3 that sat upon the three [Read more…]
We were so excited to check out our first fall festival in Germany! We went to Hitscherhof Pumpkin Festival in Maßweiler, Germany. Ok so they call it the Hitscherhof Farm Festival but all the Americans call it a pumpkin festival. It is about 1.5 hours drive from Spangdahlem, but worth the drive for some great family fun! We also paired this with Burg Trifles as you know I have a hard time doing ‘just’ [Read more…]
Taking your child to college from overseas can be be an intimidating and overwhelming process. While we love living overseas I can’t say that we loved the though of having to take our 17 year old back to the States and drop him off while we flew back to another country. There was also very little information online that I could find about it as well. I will say that the process went smoothly and [Read more…]