This blog post ended up really long because all of the misadventures in Ghent were worth sharing. One of the biggest first world problems...

We learned a few important lessons on our first long train trip to Belgium, primarily that traveling by train can be just as bad as...

Munich is a great city, especially if you’re a beer and/or history nerd. When we originally planned this trip in July we were going to...

Cannstatter Volksfest, Stuttgart Every person we talked to who has lived in Germany at some point told us that while of course we had to...

I’m pretty sure Colmar, France makes many top 10 lists for the cutest small town in Europe. It’s just adorable, with a small canal...

The famous Russian Orthodox Church, which is a 10-15 minute walk from the house. We’ve been in our new apartment for a little over two...

We knew as we got ready for the big move that there would be some things we loved about living in Germany, some things we wouldn’t like...

Grindelwald, Switzerland is shockingly beautiful. It’s nestled in a valley in the Swiss Alps and is surrounded by mountains, including a...

Things that have gone wrong in our latest temporary apartment: • No hot water • The upstairs toilet wouldn’t flush (on two different...

We have been in our current temp apartment for a little over a week now, and I figured it was time for an update. To be honest, I nearly...

There have always been two German towns at the top of my list for weekend getaways as soon as we got to Germany: Heidelberg and...

In retrospect, it seems like the milky coffee in the purse disaster from last week was just a warm-up for the stress and bullshit of this...

The last few days have been incredibly busy as we have tried to make progress on our two biggest tasks to get settled: finding a place to...

We are still pretty exhausted from jet lag and decision fatigue, but things are starting to settle into a bit of a routine now that we...

Honestly, Xanten (pronounced Zanten) would have never made our visit list, much less the first town we road tripped to, except for a...

• First driving in Germany • First (and second) house tour • First (and second) ridiculous bureaucracy We knew there would be a lot of...

After being awake for over 30 hours between Thursday and Friday, we finally got to go to sleep around 8 pm Wiesbaden time Friday. We put...

The last day in Maryland was a blur of activity and to-do lists. We had to get our stuff packed up for the trip, get the final things out...

There! I hope you have the song stuck in your head now too. 10 days from today and we should finally be in Wiesbaden! ***frantically...

Another really common question we get about the move is whether we’re bringing our cars with us when we move. TL;DR version: the...