Merry Thanksgivoween

We wanted to wish everyone a very Merry Thanksgivoween.

For those of you reading from the United States, have you noticed how the holiday season here in the last three months of the year has sort of blended into one?
Well, this has dawned a new holiday: Thanksgivoween.
We want to wish each and every one of you a very Merry Thanksgivoween.

Hi everyone!
We’re writing to let you know that we’re home now.
We will keep posting our trip with stories, thoughts, and (of course) pictures.
Thanks for tracking (and in some cases participating in) our Honeymoon trek across Europe. More pictures and stories coming shortly!

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Berlin: KaDeWe and Currywurst

Our last full day in Berlin (and our last full day outside of the US on our honeymoon), we went shopping at KaDeWe (kah – day – vay), not really to shop, but just to see one of the most famous department stores in Germany. It’s kind of like going to Macy’s in New York.
KaDeWe was setting up for the Christmas season, and it looked like it was really going to be a nice display.

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Berlin Tourism: New Berlin Tour Review And HotelQ Review

we walked from our hotel and went to see some sites closest to our hotel.
We saw a church which (as most buildings in Germany) was all but completely destroyed during the bombing which took place during World War Two. They left the entrance to the church as a memorial, and built a new church on the site, which has walls made up of mosaic blue glass, and has an absolutely amazing organ.
We also took the New Europe tour of Berlin. While our tour guide in Berlin wasn’t as fun as Matt (the guide for our tour of Munich), he was incredibly knowledgeable.

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Munich to Berlin: Traveling by Train In Germany

We were rather sad to leave Mara, Anja (ahn-yuh), and Anne (ahn-uh) in the morning at the train station in Munich. But we wanted to get to see some of Berlin on our honeymoon, and we wanted to end our honeymoon just the two of us, so we left from our awesome time in Munich and said goodbye.

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What’s Up with The Beer Glasses? Munich Tourism: BMW Experience, The HofbrauHaus, and a Jolly Good Time

Carrie, Mara, Anna, and I wandered through the city of Munich, visiting an old (rebuilt) church, and an awesome lunch at a restaurant called (I’ve forgotten the name, but hopefully Carrie remembers).

We hope that this restaurant will find it’s way to Colorado soon.

Later on in the day, we went to the BMW experience.

It was fun to go and see, but to be honest, it felt really hypey. The displays were cool, and it was neat to see the BMW’s, but wandering around admiring swatches of leather and 9 different kinds of chrome plating wasn’t all that exciting. Perhaps there was a guided tour we could have taken that would have made the BMW experience more interesting, but we didn’t, and it wasn’t all that exciting. We think you really can do the whole thing in about 20 minutes.

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Munich: Germany legends, Map, And Beer. A Festive Tour In Munich

Today, we took the city walking tour of Munich. If you go to visit Europe, we absolutely recommend walking tours for your first time in any city (which will familiarize you with the European city you are in, through the living history all around you.) One of the best tour companies we have discovered is New Europe tours.
Their tour guides work for tips only, which gives you the opportunity to take the tour before deciding how much to pay. Matt (actually an American living in Munich) gave us our tour of the city. Being someone who is fascinated with the history of Munich himself, he was absolutely fascinating to listen to, because of how he was able to synthesize so much information into a small amount of time, and add just the right amount of sarcastic wit to help you see the more negative aspects of history from a humorous and positive, while still respectful, perspective.

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Road trip through the Alps: Bergamo (Milan) Italy to Munich, Germany

If you have never taken a road trip, it is something you simply must do. Carrie and I have taken a couple of long road trips together, and we loved them – despite not loving all the time in the car, we got to stop and see a lot of fun things. (Caveat: It should go without saying, but if you are taking a road trip, take it with people whom you enjoy spending a LOT of time with.)
If you have never gotten to take a road trip across Europe, it’s something you simply must do.

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