C & C globetrotting around the world…

Our stopover in Europe was to visit friends and family. The time was pretty short and we wanted to see as many people as possible, so we had a very tight schedule. We started with a visit at Karina, Patrick and Julian who showed us around in Homburg and Saarbruecken. The next day was Christoph’s mom 60^th birthday, which she celebrated at the same place where we had our wedding reception three years earlier and we got to meet lots of family members.

Then we headed to our Sight-seeing and Wine Tour in Pfalz, Alsace and Kaiserstuhl with Christoph’s parents. We visited castles and lots of old and cute little villages. For example, at the Hambacher Schloss the Hambacher Fest was celebrated in May 1832. It is considered a milestone in German history because it was the first time that a republican movement had made its mark in the country. It also confirmed the establishment of the combination of black, red and gold as a symbol of a democratic movement for a united Germany.

We also spent some time to wander through St-Martin, a small village full of flowers and Rhodt unter Rietburg with its romantic chestnut alleys.

After a 2 day tour in France, we returned to Germany where we had lots of wine tastings and took lots of pictures of the beautiful vineyards around the Kaiserstuhl. We even accompanied the nightwatchman in Burkheim on his tour through the village. Freiburg was our last stop of the trip, a very nice, medieval city.

After our quick trip to Amsterdam, Cecilia went to Hungary to visit her great-aunt and Christoph got locked in the attic to clean out his old stuff. Afterwards, back in Germany where we visited Walter & Petra where we spent 3 quiet days, chilling and celebrating. We also tried the Segway, which was scary at first, but we quickly got the hang of it. And then it was the grand departure into the big wild world!