After leaving Keukenhof, in the rain, we went back to Amsterdam to visit the science museum, NEMO. Good activity for a rainy afternoon! Read the rest of this entry »
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The highlight of our spring break trip (at least for me) was our visit to Keukenhof. Keukenhof, located near the town of Lisse, is the world’s largest flower garden, with 7 million flower bulbs planted, by hand. This year was the 60th anniversary of Keukenhof, and the theme this year focused on the historical relationship between The Netherlands and the United States (particularly New York). Read the rest of this entry »
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We spent day 3 of spring break exploring Amsterdam. We’d checked into our hotel the night before. Not as great a view as we’d had in Trier, but the room was quite nice. The evening prior, we’d walked toward the city center to find dinner, so we knew we were only about a 10 minute walk from Central Station, where we could catch a tram close to anywhere in the city center. Read the rest of this entry »
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Day 2 of spring break–we left the lovely city of Trier and drove to The Netherlands. Our plan was to visit Madurodam, a miniature city in The Hague, then go to our hotel in Amsterdam. Read the rest of this entry »
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Day 1 of spring break! Our first stop was Trier, just a few hours away from home. It was an absolutely gorgeous day, warm and sunny, blue skies–a great start to the vacation. Read the rest of this entry »
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We were looking for something quick and interesting to do for Mom’s last couple of days visiting, so decided to take the short trip to visit the Ritter Sport store. Ritter Sport is a chocolate company (their chocolate bars are sold all over the world), and the headquarters and factory is in Waldenbuch, which is only about half an hour from our house.
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On the way back from Salzburg, we passed right by Ulm, and decided to make a stop to see the Ulm Münster, which is supposed to be the tallest church in the world. Read the rest of this entry »
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Salzburg. The birthplace of Mozart and Mozart balls. Where The Sound of Music was filmed (but only Americans know anything about it, or like it). Where edelweiss is a picture on the T-shirts they sell American tourists. And there are no kangaroos in Austria. Read the rest of this entry »
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Mom came! Since Mom came to visit at Christmas, we wanted to go see some interesting things. Mom had never seen Prague (since you couldn’t get there when we lived in Germany before) and we knew we wanted to go back, so we decided Prague was one of the places we’d see. Read the rest of this entry »
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For the past several years, we’d been fortunate enough to be close (well, close enough, a day or so driving) to Little Rock to go over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house for Thanksgiving. This year, with a big ocean in the way, we had to find an alternate location. Read the rest of this entry »
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