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.
Within 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 MoreOn Monday, we met with our local relocation expert to look at possible apartments in Mannheim. We had a couple of requirements: a minimum size (approximately 70 square meters), close to the train station or tram stop, already had a fully fitted kitchen, three rooms (not necessarily bedrooms - more on this in a minute), and allowed cats. BASF gives us a stipend to work with and we can either rent a fully furnished apartment, or an unfurnished
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 MoreSaturday left us mentally taxed. What to do to remedy it? Go diving! Isn't that the answer for everything?! Well, I guess it may not be for some (although it should be). And the best part of diving this weekend? We got to dive with Jill, a friend of ours that had to be dry (i.e. she couldn't dive) for the past two month! It was awesome! We joked that there were two groups there to dive this weekend - the Windsor Skin and Dive Club from Canada and the "I want to dive with Jill" group. The "I want to dive with Jill" group was bigger :)
Read MoreThis whole moving half way around the world thing is starting to get crazy (not to mention fill up our schedule)! This weekend we had German Culture training on Friday and Saturday evening and a German (language) lesson on Saturday morning. Needless to say, I think we are now fully cultured and ready for out debut into German society. Now we just need to figure out the whole language thing so that we don't make bumbling idiots of ourselves. Some things we found interesting about the German culture:
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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