Happy New Year! I hope all of you had wonderful holidays and got to spend plenty of quality time with family and friends. We were blessed to be able to celebrate Christmas in Paris. Christmas Eve, Matt and I attended Midnight Mass at a heavily guarded Notre Dame. Temporary fences provided a wide perimeter around…
Tag: Expat Life
A Tale of Three European Christmas Markets
I think I’ve dreamt about visiting a German Christmas market since I was in high school learning German and studying the country’s customs and cultures. Visions of stalls piled high with sweets and festive treats filled my head. The image of lights twinkling and decorated trees towering over snowy streets beckoned me from afar. Once…
Anniversary in the Alps
It’s hard to believe, but this Saturday is Matt’s and my first wedding anniversary! So much has happened since we said our “I dos,” but it’s been a fun ride. I didn’t have time to blog this week between Christmas shopping, goodbye parties for the first couple of our group to leave Toulouse and packing…
A Very Expat Thanksgiving
This past Thursday was Thanksgiving in the U.S., but for the first time in our lives we spent it in another country. Since it’s obviously not a holiday in France, Matt unfortunately had to go into work. However, as he was working the late shift that day, we managed throw together a little festive lunch…
Top 5 Favorite Things about Toulouse
Musée des Augustins It’s time to say goodbye again. In just about a week or so, we will be packing up once again and moving to a new location. Next stop? Frankfurt, Germany. It’s hard to believe that we’ve spent the past five months living in France. It’s even harder to believe it’s already time…
Prayers for Paris
We woke this morning like it was any other Saturday morning. After sleeping in a bit and exchanging good morning kisses, we grabbed our phones to check for anything we missed last night. Life in the “always connected” world. What we saw shocked us. Messages had come in throughout the night on Facebook, email, text…
First Impressions of Frankfurt
We have our next big move coming up in a few weeks–to Frankfurt, Germany. Most of the places we are sent, we likely won’t be able to do an advance scouting mission. Fortunately, Matt had some meetings here this week so we were able to come up early and check out places to live. …
Wanderlust in Hamburg: Museums, Churches and Trains
Day two in Hamburg dawned on just as rainy and cold as the first. We woke up early and Matt set off for another day of work. I, meanwhile, didn’t have a real plan, so decided just to wander until I found something interesting to do. My first stop was at the channel near the…
Adventures in Hamburg: The Stadtrundfahrt
Ich spreche nur ein bisschen Deutsch. I speak a little German. For the first time since I started studying German, I was actually in Germany. The only problem was it had been about ten years since I last took a German class. Starting as a freshman in high school, I took five years of German….
A surprise trip to Hamburg
Dear readers, please forgive my lack of posts this week. On Wednesday we found out my husband had to travel to Hamburg, Germany for work–and he had to leave that night! Being the amazing husband he is and knowing I’ve been dying to visit Germany, he booked me a flight and let me tag along! …
Eat, Drink, Move (Repeat) 