Category: Castle Chronicles
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Castle Chronicles: Dover Castle
On the final leg of our Great English Roadtrip, we made a stop in Dover on our journey from Canterbury to Folkestone to catch the train under the channel. Our crossing from France had been too foggy to see the White Cliffs, so I wanted to revisit the port town. I’m so glad we did […]
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Castle Chronicles: The Tower of London
It’s hard to include little snippets of these great towering legends in general blog posts. These monuments of history deserve more than just a passing glance as they hold so much of our past in them. Sometimes it’s hard to imagine piles of great stone bricks shaping what the future became, but these buildings were […]
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Castle Chronicles: Gravensteen Castle
The castle was mentioned briefly in my previous post about Ghent because I felt it needed its own post as do all the castles we have visited. The Castle of the Counts makes seven castles visited at the time of our travel to the city, and one of our favorites. We were able to meander […]
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Castle Chronicles: Burg Rhinestein
Tristan and I have often simply pulled off to venture up to a castle ruin we see from the road. It’s easy to do here as they’re often scattered along in the towns and villages we pass. However, on our last pitstop, Tristan asked if we’d ever stop by a castle that was “whole.” He […]
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Castle Chronicles: Burgruine Frankenstein
If I understand correctly, there are multiple Frankenstein castles. There is the ruin in the village of Frankenstein in Rhineland-Pfalz, and there is the castle in Hesse where the (from what I hear) amazing Halloween festival is held. We visited Burgruine Frankenstein, the castle ruins in the village of Frankenstein. Something I’ve noticed about the […]
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Castle Chronicles: Burg Nanstein & Heather Cliffs
Remember how I said there are over 20,000 castles and castle ruins just in Deutschland alone? They literally litter the landscape, popping up on hills and mountains seemingly from nowhere. Driving down the autobahn, you can see church steeples and castle towers. Almost every town, city, village has it’s own castle or castle ruin. It’s […]
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Castle Chronicles: Burg Neu-Wolfstein
It’s been almost a month since I’ve posted last – it’s been busy around here! I began working on the unit (I never knew how much I could miss patient care), and we moved into our house. There is still so much to do in order for us to be fully settled, but we’re over […]
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Castle Chronicles – Burg Lichtenberg
“Have fun storming the castle!” And we did! Tristan and I spent our morning lazying around, and our afternoon getting acquainted with a few local stores, scarfing down schnitzel and pommes (fries) from the food stand, and driving about 20 or so minutes to Thallichtenberg, inside Kusel, to see a castle. Now, to say that […]
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