This week started with shuffling several plans around. Originally, we were unable to find a dog kennel over Thanksgiving weekend but recently some space opened up and we immediately booked the dogs and made plans to go to Austria and Slovakia for Christmas markets. This past weekend, both countries were put into lockdown and ontoContinue reading “Week 29: Thanksgiving Week”
Monthly Archives: November 2021
Week 28: Italian Thanksgiving
Things are starting to look like Christmas around Germany! Germans don’t really celebrate Halloween and of course, don’t celebrate Thanksgiving. They sort of just jump into it when it starts getting cold. Many markets and attractions have started early this year in an attempt to space things out with Covid on the rise so thereContinue reading “Week 28: Italian Thanksgiving”
Week 27: Alsace, France
This weekend, we were able to make a quick trip across the border to Alsace, France. We made Strasbourg, only an hour and a half away and just across the border in France, our base. We got a late start on Friday and drove through some of the thickest fog we have ever seen; weContinue reading “Week 27: Alsace, France”
Week 26: Visitors!
This post is long overdue but we’ve been super busy enjoying our first visitors from the USA! Our dear friends Megan and Pat made the long trip to see us. We picked them up from the airport Saturday morning and gave them a few minutes to drop their things at our house before dragging themContinue reading “Week 26: Visitors!”
Gilcrests Abroad 