Germany Japan 2023 Heading halfway home Hmm, my favorite, waking up before 7am so that I can drive to the airport, return the rental car, be able to check in my luggage, and have enough spare time such that
Germany Japan 2023 Family Party II The last couple of days have not had a lot of blog worthy material. Yesterday I didn't even take out the camera as we were basically just heading back to family. There were
Germany Japan 2023 Würzburg Weeks of no rain they said. A heat wave they warned. I'm not too sure we speak the same language because in my heat waves, I'm not slowing down to 50 on the
Germany Japan 2023 Dinkelsbühl So the original plan for getting out of Ulm was: throw everything in the car, park the car in the city, explore the Saturday market, and head out of town. We started with
Germany Japan 2023 Ulm Today we stayed in Ulm. Our experienced guide wanted to make up some brownie points for yesterdays lack of information about a fireworks festival, and took us around town center at a time
Germany Japan 2023 Ulm via Augsburg Last night, even in the hotel we were all cuddled up in our blankets as we sat on the sofa to chat before going to bed. This morning, the blanket didn't feel like
Germany Japan 2023 Wet South End Today was a bust. We left München and started driving to the southern end of Germany. And as promised, it was wet and cold. Occasionally we got little bit of blue skies which
Germany Japan 2023 Deutsches Museum The whole reason for stepping foot in Bavaria in the first place was that I got high recommendations for the Deutsches (German) Museum. And universally, it didn't matter who I talked to, everyone
Germany Japan 2023 München The forecast has finally stopped threatening and started delivering. We drove through a fair amount of rain on our journey to München, and it continued to try and make things miserable by constantly
Germany Japan 2023 Tübingen Well ... it's certainly quite a statement. In the middle of seemingly nowhere, you get a giant concrete tower with "self-cleaning" fiberglass shrouds that comes with 12 elevator shafts. And that's what it does:
Germany Japan 2023 The road to nowhere So I got given an address. Which I followed. But the further I went, the smaller, narrower, and slower the roads seemed to get. By the time I turned into some alley with
Germany Japan 2023 Baden Baden This morning we went by bus and funicular up the local mountain to get ourselves a proper view over the city. What we didn't expect was that the more entertaining thing up there
Germany Japan 2023 Baden-Baden-Würg Yesterday was too much family and too much driving to remember to take the camera out. Though it's kind of crazy how jumping between entire cities here takes less time than it takes
Germany Japan 2023 German Food More relaxation. More family catch up (who knew that after not seeing each other for so many years, that there would be so much to chat about). And this time, the evening dinner
Germany Japan 2023 Strasbourg Today was a small driving day, including getting to experience my next international crossing (i.e. completely uneventful besides that the street signs no longer made as much sense). What we did get
Germany Japan 2023 Mannheim One of the big things that I was looking forward to by going traveling is finally getting some exercise again. The winter back home is not motivating me to do anything besides continuing
Germany Japan 2023 Family Party I The good part about being jet-lagged in the direction of Europe is that I make everybody happy by being such an early riser all of a sudden (though we'll see how long that
Germany Japan 2023 Leg Room?! I made it! But at what cost? 36 hours of flying, waiting a bunch, getting on a longer flight that decides to take the long way around, waiting a bunch more, getting on
Europe 2019 Slide Mountain Todays weather seems to have been like all our previous days. Terrible forecast, rain in the morning, weather magically gets a bit better while we're trying to have a little walk, and then
Europe 2019 Dampfnudeln (Steamed noodles) The last couple of days have not been particularly blog worthy. More catching up with people, doing some fun activities, less photographic opportunities. There was some minigolf with interesting neon coloured walls that
Europe 2019 Höllental (Hell's Valley) After the weather forecast keeps on promising that tomorrow it will rain, it still hasn't really happened. I mean, it's a nice trend, but somehow I get the feeling that we will certainly
Europe 2018 Mannheim After spending a lot of yesterday driving, we had to make our way back and took a detour via Mannheim. And as we arrived and were driving past the Rosengarten, we noticed that
Europe 2018 Ulm I know, I missed a day, but somehow I also didn't really have enough to fill an entire blog entry. We went a long way to go shopping, I remembered why shopping wasn't
Europe 2018 Party Today was party time. And the weather appeared to agree. The metorology department yesterday said that it was going to be sunny with absolutely no chance of rain for the next three days.
Europe 2018 Windmills around the corner Today was another travel day. We booked a train in the afternoon so that we would be able to do something in the morning, but by the time that we got to the