Europe

Kalmar: Swedish Summer Vacation

After a few days on the Danish island of Æro, we weren’t ready for the summer vacation theme to end.  So, we headed north to Sweden and stayed a week in their most popular spot for summer...

Iceland: The Land of Fire and Ice

Active volcanoes, black sand beaches, blue glaciers, bubbling geothermal activity, ancient lava tunnels, gigantic fissures, roaring waterfalls, and the northern lights…Iceland is a land of...

Germany’s Romantic Road: Top 10

After a wild and crazy month with Jen and Kari visiting us in Amalfi and Adam and Julie visiting us in Germany/Belgium, we had no time to actually plan our last two weekends in Germany.  We had...

Munich: The 10-Year Plan

♦Guest post by Adam Ledford♦ Alysia, Jimmy, my wife Julie, and I had talked about going to Oktoberfest for at least a decade before we finally made it happen. Julie and Alysia finishing grad school...

Salzburg: Storybook Austria

With Munich as a home base, and access to a great train system, day trips to villages within Bavaria and the Austrian town of Salzburg are easy. Salzburg is famous for being the birthplace of Mozart...

Munich: Feeling like “home”

Twenty years after my last German class, I finally made it to Germany!! I had dreamed about this since high school and now sadly could not remember much of the German that I had learned. Luckily...