Wasserturm Hotel Mannheim
Augustaanlage 29 Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, 68165, Germany
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Heidelberg Day 1
Soo...I know that I have not been posting as often as I would like. Finding free internet out here is not as easy as first believed. I promise that I will post entries from Paris and Geneva soon. For now, I am currently in Heidelberg, Germany. The drive from Geneva to Heidelberg was absolutely gorgeous! Driving through the Swiss Alps was breathtaking. Even though ...
Day 22: With my nose to the grind/tombstone
... the older section, night was setting in. I found a loose stone in the brush off the path and set it on a headstone that I really liked that had a figure on it which looked a bit like a cat, thought it was hard to tell from how worn from age it was. The real cat led me back to the entrance, but I could barely see her at this point with her black fur fading into the night. I pet her for a while longer and as soon as I made my way ...
Day 13: Getting Gemütlichkeit
... full point quickly. Everything was amazing.
There was more present opening for N's side of the family this time - her mother and father, sister and brother-in-law, her niece and nephews, and their two dogs were all there. We spent a long time sitting at the table and talking (mostly in German, but whenever N left the table her family members wanted to practice their English with me, haha.)
I think it was a ...
Day 12: Fröhliche Weihnachten!
Today was Christmas. It was a lot quieter than Christmas Eve - in the morning we stayed in and ate breakfast while the kids played with the toys that they got from Christkind.
In the evening, there was a dinner party that the parents were going to, so I stayed home with the kids and baked cinnamon-bourbon ...
Day 11: "Let the feast of a thousand hams BEGIN!"
... and citrus fruits. And while Christkind appears around the same time as Santa does in the States, the idea of a little baby Jesus character showing up a day early to give gifts when Sankt Nikolaus/Santa Claus already has kind of has me stumped. And then apparently sometimes it's Jesus as a child or a baby, sometimes it's a female angel, and sometimes the woman is bringing gifts TO Jesus, not the kids... I guess I don't have to fully understand it, I just have to ...
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