You might have guessed already what I'm up to because of my lack of posting or because you noticed on my Instagram, Facebook or Snapchat (@cuckoo4design) that I'm in Germany at my parents' house. I was more terrified to travel and fly than ever due to what has been happening in the world lately. The fact is though that if I want to see my family and hometown then I have to no matter how scared ...
My favorite Jersey Shore beach town (part 2)
You can read part 1 to this post by clicking HERE. The most obvious photo to take in Avalon would probably be the Utz-mansion (which I showed in this old post HERE). But that gets kind of boring. It is still insane how one family empire can build such a huge beach house. I'm definitely more intrigued with the smaller beach homes which are for most of us still extra large homes, especially ...
My favorite Jersey Shore beach town (part 1)
This post may contain affiliate links from which I will earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Click here to read my full disclosure policy. I'm not even going to try to apologize for my absence because I'm not even sorry, yikes. I hope you missed me though. I truly had all intentions to blog once or twice while I was at the beach but we had wifi issues and instead of me searching for places ...
Ronneburg – Germany
I'm still here! I have to explain my silence, can you believe that my computer stopped working again? I had problems with it while traveling and then it stopped turning on completely. I took it to a place 40 minutes away from where I was staying and they refused to do the simple tests they do here in the US and told me that I had to leave it there for 7 days for them to run the tests or fix it. ...
Visiting Amsterdam with kids
My son is finally ready to share his trip to Amsterdam with you. He loves picking different places to go to and this year Amsterdam was his choice. My father/his grandfather's part of his family is from the Netherlands and my father remembers a lot of summers spent at his grandmother's house in Bilthoven as a child where he also got to spend time in Rotterdam and Amsterdam. So it hits close to ...
Switzerland: Lucerne, Küssnacht
I'm posting a little bit more about Switzerland today (if you missed Monday's post click HERE) . We are lucky enough to have friends who live in Küssnacht and who we were able to stay with. They live in an amazing hillside home that looks out onto the Rigi (the mountain by Küssnacht). Lake Lucerne is beautiful but I didn't take that many photos because it was really cloudy when we went to town. ...
Switzerland: Engelberg
Hi there, I know I promised my son's Amsterdam travel post first but he is typing a little slow this time, haha! So I thought I'd share some of our trip to Switzerland first (read the second Switzerland post by clicking HERE) and maybe a second post this week about Switzerland. We just returned on Saturday and I'm so so sore from hiking. There are muscles in my legs from walking downhill that I ...
Baden Baden and Heidelberg
Our traveling has come to an end now and I wanted to squeeze in one last travel post even though I usually don't post on Thursdays. I haven't blogged about our visit to Heidelberg and Baden-Baden yet. Heidelberg is well known to Americans I'd say. We had been there with our son when he was smaller but my daughter hadn't been there and since we were visiting my aunt in Baden-Baden, we stopped in ...
Visit to Bratislava and Mödling written by my son
Hello again mom's friends who I don't really know. I'm back and this time to write about a little town in Austria called Mödling and the Slovakian capital Bratislava. Bratislava (for it's history click HERE) borders Austria and Hungary which makes it the only national capital that borders two independent countries. I visited two country capitals this year on my trip. {image ...
Visit to Wien written by my son
Hi to my mom's friends! I couldn't wait to write another blog post. Did you read my post from last year? (click HERE) This time I took a longer train ride to Wien, Austria. I stayed for three days. This post is about just Wien, so I'll call it part one, because I visited other places as well. I toured the Hofburg Complex which is home to the Austrian National Library, an armor museum, and an ...