Category: Europe
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Füssen
Bavaria, Cinderella-land, literally. On our first full day in beautiful Germany, we drove from our hotel near the airport in Nuremberg, south to Neuschwanstein Castle, allegedly Walt Disney’s real-life inspiration for the design of Disneyland’s Cinderella’s Castle. And it was a complete fairytale. Riding in a horse-drawn carriage into the mountains, the rainbow of…
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Caernarfon
Caernarfon, a city on the water with a castle, a dragon, and a drawbridge. Quiet and colorful, like something out of a fairytale book. We stayed two nights in a small B&B attached to a pub within the old castle walls. It was a quick, slightly last-minute weekend getaway for us from Cambridge, but…
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Snowdonia
Spent the weekend in a fairytale land, chasing fairies through the grass, searching for dragons in the mountains. Wales was a green, grey fantasy, the kind of place that calls you outside, in the rain. First, Tŷ Hyll, the Ugly House, a place with an unknown history. Though, rumor has it, it may have been constructed…
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Sandringham
Sandringham Estate, autumnal apple-picking at the orchards of the Queen’s beloved Norfolk country house. This is the first time I’ve ever been apple picking in England; it’s definitely a much different, more organic experience than apple picking in New England where everything is engineered to entertain. There were no cider donuts or hay bales, just…
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Hitchin Lavender
There’s a lavender field not far from Cambridge, the kind of place you imagine exists in some wild part of southern France on a giant farm somewhere. This was in a small village called Hitchin, a little less than an hour drive. We went early on a cloudy day at the end of the season,…
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Kensington Palace Gardens
Strolling through the palace gardens, being a princess. Typical English things. We came to this place on a warm weekend day just to explore.
exploring & escapades 