Recently we stayed at a hotel near the town of Schwabach Germany – what they call The Goldsmith Town. I decided that since we were in the area we had to check it out. This is not one the the towns that you’ll find in the big travel books but it has some unique features that make it worth a quick visit. Schwabach is located about 30 minutes from Anabach and 20 minutes from Nurnberg (or Nuremberg), [Read more…]
Recently we stayed in the Holiday Inn Express Nurnberg-Schwabach in Schwabach, Germany. There were similarities and differences compared to staying in a US hotel. It was our first experience staying in a German hotel and we left satisfied with the experience. The room was $115 for 1 night and included a free continental breakfast.
We were looking for a hotel near Ansbach because we had to travel [Read more…]
If your stationed in Europe, and especially at Spangdahlem your going to want this book! You can get it at the BX (I know at Spangdahlem & Ramstein for sure, not sure about the other bases here) but if you attend the Newcomers Briefing here on Spang and go to the spouses’ pull out session after lunch, you can get one for free 🙂 I have also heard you can get a copy at the AFRC if you missed it [Read more…]
I love that no matter where we travel all over the world, the sign of the Golden Arches always makes me feel like there is an ‘American’ spot where we can find comfort in greasy fast food 😉
We’ve been to McDonald’s all over the world: Iceland, England, Japan, and now in Germany as well. My favorite is still the McD’s in Japan where the workers wear business suits/skirts and literally run to serve [Read more…]
Since we arrived in Germany nearly 7 1/2 weeks ago we’ve been itching to get to a castle and explore! Unfortunately most of the castles seem to close at the end of the year until April. Luckily with some research I was able to find Vianden Castle in Luxembourg that is still open! So we made the 1 hour drive to check it out. The castle and the cute medieval city of Vianden were great way to spend [Read more…]
Getting your International Driver’s License (IDL) in Germany is technically an easy process, but getting all the information to do so is not quite so easy. I wanted to share our journey to get our IDL so that it may hopefully help someone else, or at least provide you with a ‘glimpse’ into the process. For OPSEC purposes I won’t post building numbers of the places on base, or exact locations, but [Read more…]
If you haven’t heard of the Sankt Wendel Christmas Market (aka St. Wendel) then you are missing out! For some reason it’s not one that is highly advertised in the Spang area and isn’t on a lot of the Christmas Market lists but it’s one you don’t want to miss!
Since we arrived in Germany at the end of November we only made it to 2 Christmas markets, this one and the Dudeldorf Christmas Market. The [Read more…]
Almost a month ago we moved into the Wiedenhof Palace, what is called a German ‘hotel’ off-base but it really little furnished apartments. When you move here you only get 15 days on-base in TLF, then you have to move off-base. There are several places to choose from but this one was the one that most people recommended and it had free Wi-fi (more about that later). While we heard it was the ‘recommended [Read more…]
Happy New Years! I hope you had a great 2013 and that 2014 holds many great things in store for you as well!
Our 2013 was interesting to say the least! Just a quick recap of the year –
In January Mr. B left from his 2 weeks of R & R to head back to Afghanistan to finish the last 6 months of his deployment. In the meantime the kids and I held down the fort and I worked full-time subbing as a [Read more…]
I’m happy to say that our Unaccompanied Baggage, aka Express Shipment arrived safe and sound in Germany!!
It was scheduled to arrive in Germany no later than December 5th but it actually arrived early! It arrived on December 2nd and they wanted to schedule delivery for the 5th. We were still in on base TLF at the time so we had it delivered the following week after we moved into the Wiedenhof. We [Read more…]