Widenhof Palace – Moving out! If you remember we moved into the Wiedenhof Place in Speicher back in December of 2013. Now 3 months later we have finally moved out and into our ‘German’ home for the next 3 years. I said that I’d update about moving out and what our stay was like so I’m going to do just that 🙂
Truthfully while the apartment was small and quarters were a bit cramped overall [Read more…]
(from one of my favorite songs, You Never Let Go by Matt Redman)
We have been in Germany for 3 months, and we are FINALLY moving into our house here in Germany and get our Household goods delivered! I’m looking forward to getting our ‘stuff’ and sleeping on our beds again! I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel! Still feel like I need to pinch myself every so [Read more…]
To be able to drive in Germany you need to 18 HOWEVER their are some policies in place for military families that allow teenagers to drive sooner, but there are some stipulations.
First [Read more…]
In our case we had to PSC mid-Senior year with our oldest and we had quite a few challenges, so I hope by sharing our experience it may [Read more…]
I know I can hardly believe it myself, I’m sure you had to re-read the title twice to make sure you read it right 😉 Yes, we have officially found a house in Germany! After 10.5 weeks of living in Germany and 13 weeks of being ‘homeless’ there is finally an end in sight! It’ll still be a few weeks before we get to move in because we have to give 2 week notice at the Wiedenhof but at least we know [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…]
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…]
Staying in Military TLF is always an interesting experience. You know what they say ‘When it rains, it pours’ and that always seems to be the case for us, especially during a PCS! This time it literally poured down on us! Our adventure in Spandahlem TLF – Why You May Need Rain Boots!
While staying in TLF on Spangdahlem the heater in the living room wasn’t working correctly, it was super HOT and [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…]