Happy Wednesday from Luxembourg City!

The last two weeks have been pure craziness, but things are now beginning to slow down.  We spent the first week in Edinburgh, Scotland as I mentioned previously, and since then we have been traveling to several cities throughout Germany, and just landed in Luxembourg a few days ago for our house hunting trip!

I must admit that Germany seemed a bit intimidating, since we were coming from English-speaking Scotland. I knew that I was going to have a great amount of alone time, and wasn’t sure how comfortable I would feel traveling and exploring on my own as I did in Edinburgh. I was actually quite surprised when we arrived in our first small town outside of Dusseldorf, that despite the language barrier, the people were super friendly and accommodating. In fact, the staff at that particular hotel (a small,boutique style) actually loved me, and compared me to a local German celebrity! HA! By the time we left I think that almost all of the hotel employees knew my name….not what I had in mind for my first rodeo in Germany!

Anyways, the week went on and I realized that I wasn’t that popular at the other hotels in the small towns, and it was actually becoming  more  and more difficult to communicate with the staff and residents; however, being around non-English speakers really forced me to practice and try to  understand the German language, Deutsch. It is definitely a difficult language compared to Spanish or Portuguese, but I am doing my best and taking in as much as possible!

In addition to the small towns in which we stayed, we were also able to escape for a  few days and have some fun in Cologne and Munich.Needless to say, we had an AMAZING time. Both cities had so much to offer: amazing history,architecture, food, beer, gelato,shopping, I mean does it get much better than that?

I am in the process of posting some pics from the cities from which we have already visited, and I have decided to break them down into categories, rather than separating them by country.  I hope you check them out and I will be checking back in soon!! Have a great Wednesday!