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With our belongs unpacked in our comfortable room in Frankfurt, we took advantage of being located right over the long-distance railway station and went to Koln (or Cologne) for the day. The train ride was just 55 minutes and it was much less work to go there from Frankfurt than if we went there to…

Today is when we head up to Frankfurt, our last stay of this trip. We’re here for three nights and we arrive by train from Stuttgart. I think this journey was the most stressed about for the entire trip. We’ll be returning to traveling with all our belongings in luggage after having been traveling in…

Today was the day when we bid farewell to our rental in Strasbourg, France. Upon researching rental options for a van to travel in, I discovered the cost was significantly lower for a one-way rental to be returned in the same country as it was picked up. For our travels, we needed a vehicle from…

Today was a full day of exploring from our location in southern Germany, and we wanted to cover the Black Forest and one of the most in-tact majestic castles still remaining in the area. Our agenda for the Black Forest was to just see it, so our destination was one of the most tourist-visited locations…

This was the only full day we had planned in the city I claim as my second home. I was stationed here for three years and then returned for reserve duty the several years after leaving active duty. It remains as one of my favorite cities in the world, and a European visit wasn’t the…

This day was a transition day from Munich to Stuttgart, and logistics needed to be carefully planned as half of our group was traveling there by car, and the other half by train. This was to accommodate the large pieces of luggage we had for our long trip, and the six of us safely. Fortunately…

Once we all had breakfast and got moving for our day, we walked to the nearby tram stop and rode it into the old town for sightseeing. Our first destination was a market where we browsed some of the food and goods for sale in the stalls. It was hot, so we decided it ice…

Today was an opportunity to fix a couple of things. One of them was the AdBlue error with our vehicle and one was our seats for the return flight from France. Our car rental began showing a warning for a liquid needed for diesel vehicles here called AdBlue. This was a pain because back home…

Greg had reserved two bicycles for us to ride around the mountain trails for today. It was explained to be as easy as taking the gondola up, picking up the bikes, then riding them down. To our surprise there was an additional 1.5 hour hike to get to the bike pickup location, which added a…

Even though we had another day on our passes to enjoy the mountain area of Serfaus-Fiss-Ladis, everyone wanted to move onto the next location. This is just human nature isn’t it? You can spend a day having fun, but we’d all prefer to just get the day’s driving over with. So we left! We stopped…