Meet Aaron and Meghan - scuba diving, traveling, and recovering expats! They just moved back from Germany, where they lived and worked for two years and are now making their home in the great state of Texas, quite a change for these northerners! Follow along as they dive and travel all over the world.
Oktoberfest. The quintessential thought that comes to mind when many Americans think of Germany. Dirndl. Lederhosen. Beer. Schweinhoxen. More beer. Bratwurst. Bavaria. Ahh yes, Germany at it's finest!
Each year, in the city of Munich, the annual festival is held. While this is the biggest, and most well known festival, in Germany...
Read MoreOne thing I'm coming to realize about Europe is that monasteries and booze seem to go to together like peas and carrots (Forrest Gump anyone?). Exhibit A from two weekends ago: Chimay brewery and Trappist monks. Exhibit B: wine and Kloster Eberbach, near Wiesbaden. Another realization: switching between European and American keyboards is difficult. The z and y are switched, the @ is hard to find (I actually had to google ...
Read MoreThis week, a couple of my sorority sisters were in town and we were able to meet up! They came to stay a couple nights with us and since Mannheim isn't a very touristy town, we headed over to Heidelberg, which is very touristy.
We started off by heading to the castle. After a couple mishaps with the GPS...
Read MoreLast Sunday, we headed down to Karlsruhe for the day. As a result of the Germany's history, almost every town has either a castle, or a palace, and their condition varies. In some towns, the castle is more or less in ruins, in others, they are still in remarkable shape and now house museums. The palace in Karlsruhe fell into the...
Read MoreWithin the walls of the Heidelberg Castle is an Apothecary Museum. So, obviously, being the lover of museums that I am (and really cool doors, but that's another story for another day), I insisted that we go in. We breezed through it pretty quickly. There were quite a few people and I didn't spend a lot of time reading the little information ....
Read MoreWith Mannheim explored, the apartment chosen, and some friends made, we had one more day before we needed to head home to Michigan for a few weeks. The small town of Heidelburg is only a few minutes away from Mannheim (seriously, everything is so much closer together in Germany). The two are closer than Ann Arbor and Detroit. All you Michiganders, ....
Read MoreLast week, we had our "Look and See" trip to Mannheim, Germany. The purpose of this trip was to find an apartment for when we move over there in a few (short) weeks, and to decide if living in Germany was something we would like (in short, I'm pretty certain we will). While technically, this was "vacation time" for me, it was a lot of work. For the first couple of days, we explored Mannheim and a little bit of the surrounding area.
Read MoreIn the summer of 2014, the Oaks' packed up their life and moved to Mannheim, Germany. Now they live in Texas! Follow along as this former expat couple travels the world with the two girls, doing some scuba diving along the way!
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