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Munich has a long standing coffee culture – a guide to cafés in the city was actually published all the way back around 1835! That being said, I don’t know that I’d call it a coffee city like Seattle, Vienna, or Havana, but it’s definitely growing. Munich is slowly gaining more and more coffee roasters,…
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The Colebrookdale Railroad, also known as the Secret Valley line, is a Civil War-era railroad turned tourist attraction operating between Boyertown (where the station is) and Pottstown in Southeast Pennsylvania. Boyertown is a borough located in Berks County, a little over an hour drive from Philadelphia. The original Colebrookdale Railroad started running trains back in…
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Now I’m a summer girl through and through (I am a Leo afterall), but the holiday season holds a special place in my heart. I don’t know what it is about the lights, decorations, and festivities, but it has always felt like the most magical time of the year. Sure, there are some people will…
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Occasionally being a short/petite girl can be a pretty big disadvantage, especially when it comes to being a major foodie! My eyes are always bigger than my stomach and I usually can’t try as many things as I’d like because I just can’t make anything else fit. The struggle is compounded by the fact that,…
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As much as I love living in the city, sometimes I miss the green spaces I was surrounded by growing up. Thankfully when I need that breath of fresh air, I don’t even have to leave the city to get it! Nestled in suburban-esque Northwest Philadelphia you’ll find Wissahickon Valley Park. It’s the second largest…
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I don’t know about you, but I’d never heard of apfelwein before visiting Frankfurt. What exactly is it? Apfelwein, or ‘Apple wine’ in English, is basically a still, sour alcoholic cider that Frankfurt is known for. Compared to the average American hard cider, Apfelwein is a bit stronger (5-7% ABV) and very dry/tarte. While some…
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Hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of car enthusiasts flock to Stuttgart, Germany every year to visit both the Mercedes-Benz Museum and the nearby Porsche Museum. Personally, I’m not a big car person – I couldn’t even tell you the last time I checked my own oil or changed a tire. My husband on the…
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The second leg of my German coffee shop tour was in Stuttgart – Germany’s Autohauptstadt (Car Capital). We were four days into our trip at this point, and I wasn’t sure if it was still jet-lag or something but the coffee just wasn’t hitting like usual. It seems as though Germans prefer their coffee a…
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We’d been wanting to take a trip to Germany for a while and finally decided it was the right time. The big question was – when exactly should we go? As much as I wanted to go to Oktoberfest, I knew it’d be an expensive madhouse that we probably didn’t want to deal with. And…
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Lufthansa, short for Deutsche Lufthansa AG, is the largest airline in Europe – moving an average 3.6 million passengers a month! They are also the biggest operator of the Boeing 747-8, which is the plane we took for our business class trip from Newark to Frankfurt. Home of the Lufthansa Aviation Center, their main operations…
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