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CONTRIBUTED BY LINDA MENCH A cloudy, dreary weekend with baseball games postponed due to rain. Tired of playing yet another indoor nerf game. The desperate need to get the wiggles out resulted in a wonderful Sunday drive discovery: Wildpark Potzberg! Our mission was to find a place open on Sunday to purchase a pretzel. Instead, [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY SARAH FORTE In London? Big Ben In Central California? Big Sur In Texas? Big… everything (Everything’s bigger in Texas) In Ramstein-Miesenbach? Big Emma’s Turns out its not just Texas where everything is bigger! Big Emma’s is a restaurant in the town of Ramstein where everything is huge. They specialize in big portions of [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY LAURA SNYDER Yabadoo is an indoor playpark in Mehlingen, near Kaiserslautern.  There are fun activities for kids of all ages.  You can bring your own food and drinks or purchase food from their snack bar.  The price of the food is reasonable.  There are 4 kids plates to choose from that are all [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY SARAH FORTE In Germany, where is the largest city? The capital? The largest stadium? Today, the answer is Berlin, but the oldest city in Germany once held all of these titles. And what is the oldest city in Germany, you ask? None other than Trier, once known as Augusta Trevororum and later as [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY SARAH FORTE Have you ever ate inside a giant barrel? I have, twice, in two different countries, in two different barrels. My first barrel restaurant was in Okinawa, Japan. It is an Izakaya-style Japanese restaurant and we had seaweed appetizers, sushi, and teriyaki. It’s a great place and we visited it a few [...]

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  Planes, Trains and Automobiles CONTRIBUTED BY LAURA SNYDER Germany has some great museums for lovers of all things technical. Two such museums are the Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim and the Technik Museum Speyer. Both museums have lots to look at and plenty of climbing and sliding to keep younger ones happy. Both museums [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY SARAH FORTE Today, Bad Dürkeim is a spa town in the Rhine-Nekar region of Germany and is best known by most American’s for it Wurstmarkt, the largest and one of the oldest wine festivals in the world. But there is still plenty to do if you visit outside the first weekends is September, [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY SARAH FORTE Ole! Do you find yourself in the KMC (Kaiserslautern Military Community) with a craving for Mexican food? I love Mexican food! Give me some warm tortilla chips and salsa, maybe some gauc and I’m in a happy place. Recently my husband and I had a chance to check out Cantina Mexicana [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY AMANDA PAPENFUS Fasching, also known as Karneval and Fastnacht, is a carnival season in Germany marked by several festivities, including parades. My husband and I went with another couple to the Mainz parade, held on  Rosenmontag, the Monday before Ash Wednesday. I have heard the parade in Mainz is one of the biggest, [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY LINDA MENCH Try-it Thursday is my attempt to encourage the boys to try something new and is secretly my desire to homeschool them!  Try-it Thursday (named by my son) really seems to apply to just about everyday here in Germany, lately. We ran down to the train station in our little village with [...]

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