Adventuriety
We’re all learning on this adventure, every day. Scott learned that Venice is actually in Italy and not in France. He was showing Grant on Google Maps where we were living in Germany and he happened to notice Venice. He asked me if I knew where Venice was and I said, “Duh, it’s in Italy.” I didn’t really say that, but I did know it...
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Adventuriety
We are leaving Oberammergau this morning and we are sad to say goodbye. It has been a magical three weeks and we couldn’t imagine a better place to have begun our journey this year. Looking back through the pictures, I can’t believe that we have done so much in such a short time. We have hiked, alpine coastered, swam and played cards. We have...
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Adventuriety / Inspirietry
Miscommunication can be blissful. I had profound realization of this nugget of wisdom on our hike today plus learned a few other good little tidbits. We had a great thirty-six hour mini road trip this weekend. It was fun and we saw some new sights and currency, learned a few things and ate a lot of non-husband approved food. We are getting closer to daily...
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Adventuriety
Our phones are not really working. Scott has an expensive international plan so we can be contacted in an emergency and I put a European SIM chip in my phone when we got here and it works intermittently. So, we had no way of researching what to do in Vaduz because we only planned lunch. Not ready for our adventure to end, we used the...
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Adventuriety
Today was a good day. It started in Germany with a chocolate croissant, and ended toasting with some very nice people at a sailing club in Switzerland while the kids swam in the rain. Have I mentioned that we are not really planners? We woke up early this morning, Sunday morning, and our first full day off since we started home school. By the time...
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Adventuriety
We love Oberammergau. It is a beautiful little village near fabulous hiking trails. The weather is nice, especially for us rain-starved Californians. It usually rains here at least a few times a week, complete with lightning and thunder, another treat since we don’t get much of nature’s lightshow in our hometown. We love all of the weather and the sunshine too. When it’s not raining...
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Adventuriety
With visions of Kind Ludwig still dancing in our heads, we decided to clear them by hiking to a meadow that I had spotted from the deck of the closed restaurant on Laber Mountain a few days earlier (Four Lessons in a Three Hour Tour). My husband got out his map and his map reading skills and we headed out to the Hoher Fricken. Hoher...
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Adventuriety
I am in love with Germany. The people are interesting and Bavaria at least, is breathtakingly beautiful. I have come to one conclusion that the people living in Bavaria (and maybe it’s true of all Germans) are crazy tough for one reason in my mind (and there are probably more reasons, a lot of fire wood around here), the Bier trinken und Wandern. I love...
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Adventuriety
I’ve decided that while in Bavaria, my husband’s definition of hiking does not apply. He says you need to be at least a mile from the parking lot and doing a little bushwhacking in order to really be hiking. It seems that people here are hikers, there are hikers everywhere with hiking sticks, clothes and gear. His definition of hiking here should be modified to,...
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Adventuriety
It was a good day today. We hiked and ate and played cards and if you actually want to get to the card playing part, you’ll have to read all three of the Pürschling Blogs, it was a long day. We got an early start for the first time on our trip. It’s been afternoon hiking as we adjust to the new time zone, but...
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