For the last day of our trip we took the train from Luxembourg back into Germany to visit Trier. Although a small town of only 110,000 people, Trier appeared in…

During our stay in Luxembourg, our friend Diana took us on a road trip to nearby Bernkastel-Kues in Germany. Divided by a river, the town is named similarly to Budapest,…

When planning the trip we wanted to take advantage of the fact that Cologne was near the border. Looking at the map we realized that Luxembourg was close and that…

One gray morning we took the train north to Dusseldorf. Only an hour away, the larger city didn’t have the same size of markets as Cologne, but instead had booths…

We visited three markets near our hotel in Cologne. While we did see other parts of the central part of town, our primary focus was the markets both day and…

We flew out of Seattle the day after Thanksgiving heading to Germany. We had always wanted to visit the Christmas markets and we finally got around to doing so. But…

Our final trip in Montenegro was a two-hour drive inland to the famous Ostrog Monastery. Built in the late 17th century, the monastery is dedicated to St. Basil of Ostrog,…

The town we had originally intended to visit after seeing Kotor was Perast. A tiny fishing village on the bay (official population is less than 400), Perast is a popular…

Our hotel was located on the shore of the massive Bay of Kotor, named for a town at one of its eastern reaches. We drove over to Kotor one morning…

After a week in Slovenia we flew south to visit Montenegro. About the size of Connecticut, the small, mountainous country is a popular tourist spot for its low costs and…