To Europe With Kids

In honor of Oktoberfest : My little Bavarians and … … my now big Bavarians.

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A stretch of the Silver Water Aqueduct. Although there is grand evidence of ancient Roman civilization in the Portuguese city of Évora - seen in the ruins of the Temple Diana - the huge aq...

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We spotted this in Berlin.  Laughed out loud. Upon later research I discovered TJ Maxx calls itself TK Maxx in Europe to prevent confusion with TJ Hughes, a British department store.

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Berlin in 1987. The last time I was in Berlin before this summer's trip was in 1987, before the wall came down.  I was very curious to see how much had changed and couldn't imagine being a...

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Musée d'Orsay clock in the main hall. Since we're not big museum-goers, the Musée d'Orsay - even though it's one of the most popular museums in Paris after the Louvre - was not on our l...

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The Rhine River After a few days of vacation on the Mosel River , why not head to the Rhine River?  The two scenic valleys are no more than a 30 minute drive from one another.  Even if yo...

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If you google "most charming villages in Germany" you will likely come upon a small town called Cochem on the Mosel River.  That's how I discovered it.  And since it is located relatively n...

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This last year was spent entirely on getting my daughter into college.  Certainly I take no credit for her acceptance to nine top-notch U.S. universities, for it was her 4.7 GPA, excellent ACT ...

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It sort of looks like a lamb, doesn't it? A dear German friend of mine baked us this traditional Osterlamm, or Easter lamb cake, last year. Just about every German family has a different var...

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Love the richly adorned façade of the Westfries Museum in Hoorn, the Netherlands.  The building itself is called the Statencollege and was built in 1632 right in the city's central square,...

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The old Arab quarter of the city of Granada in Spain is called the Albaicin (or Albayzin) and is a romantic hillside district with narrow winding streets and medieval Moorish structures.  T...

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I like to keep the blog posts positive, but I have, on occasion, ranted about things. Well, really only about booking airline tickets . So as my frustration with British Airlines rises, I feel c...

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Photographed in Gruyères, Switzerland .

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Maybe this is a familiar sight on the east coast, but living on the west coast all my life I'd never seen "chestnuts roasting on an open fire" until our visit to Zurich in the winter.  The...

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Café-Restaurant Des Remparts If you're ever in the incredibly precious town of Gruyères in Switzerland and find yourself a little or a lot hungry, you have my recommendation to try Café-...

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I would have eaten every meal of the day at the Market of San Miguel in Madrid if I could have.  Grazing around and nibbling at all kinds of tapas and sweets is just my thing.  A little ch...

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H A P P Y   H A L L O W E E N ! ! ! Pena National Palace in Sintra, Portugal.

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Don't be fooled by the cracked plaster and peeling paint on the exterior of this holiday apartment we rented in Lisbon .  The one-bedroom unit in the Baixa district was spotlessly clean, la...

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I have been perplexed at times, while traveling in Europe, about a task I consider here at home to be pretty straightforward - flushing the toilet.  I remember when I was a child, entering a pu...

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When an entire town is named a UNESCO World Heritage Site , you know it's going to be an interesting place, and that is the reason we chose to make an overnight stop in Évora on our trip t...

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I am currently skimming The 10 Best of Everything by Nathaniel Lande and Andrew Lande. Interesting, their list of the 10 best airlines in the world, which they give in random order: Amer...

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Puerta del Sol in Madrid When I think of Madrid I think of hot.  Hot, dry, summer temperatures.  This capital of a country with over 5,000 miles of coastlines is probably farther from a co...

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Oddly enough, the only direct train from Lisbon to Madrid , and vice versa, is a night train.  So, since we had no other way to get from the capital of Portugal to the Madrid airport for ...

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As if a city with dungeons, pageantry, drawbridges , double-decker buses, and very large ravens wasn't enough fun for families with children, in 1999 London erected what was at that time th...

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