Rothenburg We stepped off the train in Rothenburg without a reservation or an idea of where to go. We were approached by a sweet, old German woman who said she had a free room in the oldest part of Rothenburg. We totally lucked out with this place-not only was it a room but it was…

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This is funny-you will have to listen to me at the end of this little clip-Mike noticed it. He captures my facial expression to my first glimpse of the Christmas Wonderland-You may need to turn the volume up to hear me mutter ” Oh, we’re going there “. //www.youtube.com/get_player

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Our first night in Rothenburg we met in the town square for the night watchmen. He takes you on a tour through the city and tells you about the history of the town-he was pretty funny. Me and the night watchan. The next day….OKTOBERFEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mike was in Heaven. Everyone in the beer tent MUST have…

A main gate that leads out of the cities walls. You can barely see Mike’s head above the flowers. This is a pic looking up at the main gate. Notice the stone mask in the middle. This was used to pour hot pitch onto enemies trying to get in. Me in a Christmas Market….Heaven! Me…

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Cierra at dinner, looking beautiful as always. All right, so once again the famous covered bridge (apparently the most photographed thing in Switzerland) and octagonal tower/torture chamber to be followed by….. the chocolate candy that slightly resembles, well…we’ll leave it up to your imagination b/c if you are thinking what we were when we saw…

Us by the famous lion in Luzern, Switzerland. Apparently Mark Twain stood in this same spot and said the stone statue was the single most saddest beauty ever captured in stone. Sounded pretty poetic…our thoughts….it just looked cool and reminded us of the Chronic…what…chronicles of Narnia (Tom and Johnny, that’s one for you). Our view…

A few side lined stories….. Mike and I wanted to share a few stories that have not made the blog yet. The first one is about how creative one can be in a dire situation involving food. We booked a 5 day, 4 nights stay at this quaint bed and breakfast outside of Sienna. We…

From Tuscany, we made our way up through Florence (Firenze) which we hit last year so we skipped this time, making our way up to Milan, Italy (a few crazy sidebar stories to follow).

Hey everyone. We are in the coolest place right now, Rothenburg, Germany, a medieval 12th century town. Cierra is in heaven because we just walked through the biggest Christmas market in the world apparently! We picked up a few things and are now heading out to dinner before we meet up with the nightwatchman, a…