Our first trip of the New Year was to a small town here in Germany: Heilbronn. The group Hotel Bossa Nova was playing at a jazz club, and I really wanted to hear them play.
The poster outside the club
Happy 2014!
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Where Have We Been?…
Everywhere! Okay, maybe not everywhere, but we have covered a lot of ground. We’ve spent half of the month of July away from home, and the other half getting ready for a trip…away from home. It was a very busy month.
We’ve been using August to catch up with all the stuff we missed in July. I believe we’re finally catching our collective breath. Continue reading
Flashback Friday-The Netherlands (No Tulips For Me)
I love tulips. There. Now you know. When I got married, I wanted to have a tulip bouquet. Sadly, they were out of season. So, no tulips at my wedding. But I still love tulips.
When I moved to Germany, I knew I was moving close to the Netherlands (home of the tulip). I was excited. I was even more excited to find out about an event called the Floriade. The Floriade is an international exhibition of flowers and gardening (think botanical garden, but on steroids). It’s held once every 10 years in the Netherlands. And in 2012 it was being held in Venlo, Netherlands. Now, if a gardening event is supposed to feature over a million flowering bulbs (the tulip is a bulb) surely there would be tulips all over the place. Right? Wrong! I did not see one tulip. Not a single one. I was taken aback.
These boots greeted us before we entered the park