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Thanks for following along… we had an amazing time and are so grateful to have been able to make it happen. It was incredible to see beautiful architecture from all ages, people with different customs and goods and unique ways of hosting, to visit churches all over and to hear languages of many lands. It…

We received the true Opa Hamburg tour!!

Many thanks to Sven and Sandra for their generosity and kindness to us.

Kai took us to the Wachau Valley for a day trip. This was incredible in December so I could only imagine it during peak harvest time.

It was great to get to visit Kai and Missy along with their kids Hope and Jonas on this trip to Vienna. We stayed in a place that was 5 minutes away from their flat and a highlight of the trip was having breakfast over at their place each morning. Thank you to Kai and…

Why, yes, we did watch The Sound of Music to prepare for this !!! LOVED: 11.24.25-11.26.25

As the weather steadily dipped colder and colder, the reality that my Croatian dream of swimming again in the warm Mediterranean was slipping further and further away. It was cold in Croatia too. So back to Paris we went. Paris. It’s beautiful and large enough to continue wandering new streets for days. It has amazing…

Our first grand viewing of the historic Blue Danube (Insert “An der Schönen Blau Donau by Straus). Also, our introduction to Christmas Markets in 2026. We’d been seeing the set-up for the markets in previous cities, but this was our first real thing. The first night we walked through the city, and came to the…

Ben and I have been learning Morse code. We can’t wait to pull it out at a family dinner — or, if we’re ever in a life-threatening situation where we can’t speak to each other. Most of our practice has been while walking through city streets. To the odd passerby, I’m sure we sound rather…