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Pre-dawn frost, JP walked the dogs up a steep hill, seeking out the local putt-putt facility and indoor basketball court. With a lovely walk, a hilltop pre-dawn view of the city, and a quick run through the woods, JP returned for a quick bite, then we headed out for Nuremberg. It’s a holiday week, and…
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In JP’s opinion, one of the best ways to get acquainted with a city is by taking advantage of early morning dog walks. Fresh, crisp, cool air, sunrises, hidden trails, cityscapes, unmarked paths. All great ways to build a sense of direction and a mental map of the town. Honestly, the city is decently sized,…
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We arrived in Kitzingen on Christmas day. Frohe Weihnachten (Merry Christmas)! We are now in Bavaria. An area of Germany where people are known to either be warm, welcoming, gregarious, and out-spoken (how JP sees them). Or, conversely, loud & overbearing (how Elyce sees them). Either way, our family should fit right in. As Elyce…
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Lützelbach is a tiny town, population ~6500, spread out through a lot of land. Our host has several ponies (Flint and Merlin) that our girls met, groomed, and rode. The house is on a main thoroughfare, with a grocery ~100M away, an elementary school directly uphill (and it’s not an easy hill to walk up),…
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Sabbath the way you want it! Ever been a stranger in a brand new city, not knowing anyone, walking around, no cell phone in site, four people expecting to be wherever you’re leading them to, any minute? Ok, most people don’t know that feeling But if you’re JP, you’re not most people…and getting lost in…
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A new day, a new adventure. Today we visit the legendary Botanischer Garten. Even though our children believe we were born before Great Grandpa Kurt (GGK) worked here nearly 100 years ago, it just goes to show we have aged well. Our guess is GGK would have been thrilled to see how this Garten is…
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Yogi Berra once said, “Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical”. And Vince Lombardi even went so far as to say, “Winners never quit, and quitters never win” And a wise man (JP) once said, ”Only users lose drugs” While most people would call it quits after walking all over the northern…
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The saying goes something like, “A journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step”. And then there is the saying, “One does not simply walk into Mordor”. Either way, we just traveled a crap ton. A metric crap ton. That’s far. And voila! We are here, in Europe, chilling on another continent. 3 children,…
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HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! Ok, that’s totally, mostly, everything we kept saying, except in more PC terms because we (really just JP doesn’t, but we) try not to swear around the kids. Today is the day! We have talked about this for so long, but IT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING!!! Last minute…
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Ok, before we get going, please understand that it took us a long time to get to this point. We literally had to get Elyce back into mostly functioning mode. A year ago she was practically comatose in the hospital with West Nile Virus, which developed into meningoencephalitis (look it up, it wasn’t a good…
Shenanigans Crossing Borders 