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After last night's wonderful dinner and our outing to the Fasanerie, Bill and I decided we'd take another trip to lovely Eppstein.  I wanted to explore the temple on the side of the mountain I noticed when we visited Eppstein Castle a couple of months ago. The Kaisertempel.  Right next to it is a very nice Italian restaurant called Ristorante Kaisertempel. After a rather scary, white knuckle ride up a steep, narrow, mountain pass, we came to the restaurant, a large, charming building with a stone oven for pizzas and a full bar.  The area is full of walking trails, so there w ..read more

Last October, when we were searching for a new home in Wiesbaden, we visited the area twice and brought our dogs both times.  During our first visit, we stayed at the Town Hotel in downtown Wiesbaden.  It was very pet friendly, convenient, and close to everything, but staying in a tiny hotel room isn't so good when you have dogs with you.  The second time we visited, we stayed at GL Suites, which is a group of apartments that are pet friendly in a neighborhood called Rambach. Although GL Suites gets a lot of negative reviews on TripAdvisor for being outside of the city, we enjo ..read more

I really needed to have some fun today, so Bill decided we'd visit the Förderverein Fasanerie, which is a lovely animal park in a wooded area near downtown Wiesbaden.  This park reminds me a lot of the Wildpark Pforzheim in the Stuttgart area, only you don't have to pay for parking.  Entry is free, unless you want to pay two euros for animal feed.  The park isn't quite as large as the one in Pforzheim, but it's a good size and you will definitely get your exercise strolling around the gentle hills. Here are some photos I got from today.  We saw all kinds of animals, f ..read more

Last night, our community had another one of its wine stands.  It seemed like there was a different crowd last night as they were selling a locally produced wine.  The first one we tried was called Breckenheim Riesling, which is made right near our neighborhood. Bill enjoys his first vino... It was made in our town. The vintner came around with this flyer for his next event.   As usual, we were joined by more locals... older folks who didn't know English.  It's good for me to get out and talk to the locals in my badly fractured German.  I may still sound like a ..read more

Well, it's time once again to write one of my "ten things I learned" posts.  I always like to wrap up a long trip with a summary post.  It's mainly for those who don't want to wade through all my crap, but are interested in where I went and what I did.  I find it's also useful for me to digest our travel experiences.  I keep reminding myself that I probably won't always have these amazing opportunities to see the world.  So here goes... 10.  Volvo is now owned by a Chinese company. I knew that Volvo was once owned by the American company, Ford, but I didn't know that it was bought by Geely ..read more

Saturday was our last full day in Leipzig.  To be honest, I was feeling kind of ready to go home.  I always look forward to vacations, especially long ones that involve different cities and countries other than the ones that immediately border Germany.  But usually, after about a week, I start to feel tired of being away from home.  I miss my dogs.  I miss having access to my desktop computer, which is a lot easier to write on.  I miss making music.  I also miss having plenty of clean underwear, even though I usually pack enough to take care of me if I shit in them every day. I have a bad hab ..read more

Friday morning, we got up and had breakfast.  The Steigenberger has a pretty good buffet offered, though I somehow missed half of it on the first morning.  My only complaint, besides the coffee being kind of bad, is that some of the chairs were a bit narrow.  I don't have a skinny butt by any means, but I can't help but think of those larger than me trying to sit down.  Even Bill, who isn't a large man, commented on the "snug" feel of the mauve colored chairs in the breakfast room.  However, on the last day, we sat in the black ones, and they were a lot more comfortable. After breakfast, we w ..read more

A sight for sore eyes. We left Rostock bright and early on Thursday, July 4th.  The drive to Leipzig took about four hours through the former East Germany.  We were marveling at how unspoiled it is, even thirty years after the Berlin Wall fell.  There are many open fields and the Autobahns, for the most part, are nice and clear.  We did encounter a couple of Staus, which were caused by road construction. Nice rural East German countryside. I couldn't help but chuckle when I saw that the builders had used signs with "emojis" on them to express how long the construction would last.  The fir ..read more

Our second day in Rostock began with a big crowd.  A large bus tour stayed in the hotel and they were all having breakfast at the same time, which made finding a seat challenging.  However, one thing I will say about the Radisson Blu in Rostock is that their breakfast, while chaotic, was pretty plentiful.  Yes, it was mostly buffet, though they would make certain dishes to order if we wanted them.  But the buffet had a whole lot of choices-- everything from traditional breakfast foods we eat in the United States, to the more typical German cheeses, cold cuts, breads, and vegetables. Cool Me ..read more