A Weekend Sailing on the Edersee
Last weekend was another father and son outing. Our good church of Hessen Nassau offers this fathers-and-kids sailing weekend: A group of dads with their kid...
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First Bike Tour of the Season
Germany is great for biking: Even minor rivers usually have well developed bike trails running their length, often along with a railway line. So you can just...
First Bike Tour of the Season - Family Pictures
So how do you get your kid to go along on a 60-km bike ride? I cannot claim to have the sure-fire receipie but as far as I can tell it involves a mixture of ...
Race Day - Frankfurt/Eschborn
The First of May (Labour Day and a official holiday in Germany) traditionally is Race Day in Frankfurt - i.e. Germany’s most famous bicnycle road race is tak...
Skiing Willingen 2016
This year we didn’t get a whole lot of sking - two trips to Willingen was all we managed. As you can see from the pictures below the conditions for the first...
Monopoly
This year with the boys I played my first game of monopoly since high school. The main surprise for me was how boring the game itself actually is - it really...
Sledding Rules
Just for the record: Chaotic behaviour on sledding hills apparently isn’t a phenomenon restricted to Germany.
Sledding in Oberreifenberg
Snow! Our first thought was that we had to get outdoors and do some sledding. Well, our little village is called Sulzbach AM Taunus, as in at not in the Taun...
Weihnachtsferien
We spent the christmas holidays in Brilon with my parents doing the usual stuff: Several trips to the indoor water park and the skating rink, the summer sled...
Canoe Trip Lahn
July 4th was the hottest day of the year so far and just perfect for a canoe trip: The river was refreshingly cool without being chilly and provided a welcom...