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Navigon, "Take Me Home": February 2011
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Navigon, "Take Me Home". An American Family's Adventures Abroad. Sunday, February 27, 2011. February Night - Alt Stadt Heidelberg. The air was brisk-cold, so we headed toward the parking garage, back past the church, through the main square, past the Corn Market Madonna (my favorite statue in the city), under the watchful statesmanship of the castle. So, I'm saying a prayer that you've got one up your sleeve. Love you. -Val. Saturday, February 19, 2011. And the early suspicion I felt I saw in everyone's ...
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Navigon, "Take Me Home": Over-thinking
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Navigon, "Take Me Home". An American Family's Adventures Abroad. Wednesday, July 27, 2011. I am an over-thinker. It can paralyze my decision-making (and, in fact, I usually believe that any decision I make will end up being the wrong one). So, settling down here, buying a house, is overwhelming. I can live anywhere for 2 or 3 years, in any house. It's how we've lived. Bad neighbors? We'll be gone in 2 years. Lousy storage space? Next house will be better. So, we want to live on the peninsula. There are 2...
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Navigon, "Take Me Home": November 2010
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Navigon, "Take Me Home". An American Family's Adventures Abroad. Tuesday, November 30, 2010. So, what does one do for entertainment once the grey, grey, cold days of November come? Go to a schwimmbad (indoor water park)! It's fun, food and a balmy 85 degrees inside. We have a couple of smaller ones nearer our home, but this is a favorite. It's in Weinheim, near Frankfurt, less than an hour away. Here's the main attraction, the wave pool. There are smaller pools all around, and plenty of places to relax.
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Navigon, "Take Me Home": April 2011
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Navigon, "Take Me Home". An American Family's Adventures Abroad. Monday, April 18, 2011. Barcelona is a city of architecture. Buildings housing completely ordinary purposes present extraordinary facades. Buildings that, anywhere else, would be a city highlight, simply have balconies. This is the street-side exterior of our apartment building. We rented a 3-bedroom apartment in the Eixample area of the city. With the sea beyond, Montjuic. To our right, Agbar. I know, 14 already.). Built by Antoni Gaudi.
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Navigon, "Take Me Home": July 2011
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Navigon, "Take Me Home". An American Family's Adventures Abroad. Wednesday, July 27, 2011. I am an over-thinker. It can paralyze my decision-making (and, in fact, I usually believe that any decision I make will end up being the wrong one). So, settling down here, buying a house, is overwhelming. I can live anywhere for 2 or 3 years, in any house. It's how we've lived. Bad neighbors? We'll be gone in 2 years. Lousy storage space? Next house will be better. So, we want to live on the peninsula. There are 2...
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Navigon, "Take Me Home": October 2010
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Navigon, "Take Me Home". An American Family's Adventures Abroad. Wednesday, October 27, 2010. What's better than a real flea market? Not the kind with pirated DVDs or tube socks or tacky t-shirts, but the kind that requires "No new items" and sells things with a history, with a past, with a real uniqueness. So last week I found out there was a flea market in Mannheim that was supposed. To be big. It's held once a month, and I didn't know about it! Sure, let's go.". Oh yeah, this is gonna be good. This is...
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Navigon, "Take Me Home": September 2010
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Navigon, "Take Me Home". An American Family's Adventures Abroad. Tuesday, September 28, 2010. Okay, my first story about our Spanish vacation. One of the things we decided we wanted to experience was a Flamenco dinner performance. There were several offered down in Nerja. Is the town on the beach, and we were in Frigiliana. Were staggered, with each table arriving 15 minutes after. The last. We were the first table. Eric and I looking out over the patio on the restaurant. Then he moved a couple of things...
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Navigon, "Take Me Home": Sagrada Familia
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Navigon, "Take Me Home". An American Family's Adventures Abroad. Monday, April 18, 2011. If Barcelona is a city of architecture, the Basilica. Is its pinnacle. Designed by Antoni Gaudi. The structure became his masterpiece work. It is still being constructed based on his design. He worked on it for 40 years, living there and dedicating himself solely. If St Paul's Cathedral in Rome is the definition of reverent, holy, dedicated, then the Sagrada. Is, by contrast, joyful, exuberant. Was sick and homebound.
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Navigon, "Take Me Home": January 2011
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Navigon, "Take Me Home". An American Family's Adventures Abroad. Sunday, January 30, 2011. My dream house is, in construction terms, a "prefabricated" house. Sounds like a trailer-home, but really they are super-constructions, built in pieces in a factory and put together on your site. Last weekend we went to a pre-fab builders showcase (a fake neighborhood with homes built by various builders, completely fitted out and each containing a builders office). It was dreamy! The next 2 are baths from a couple...
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Navigon, "Take Me Home": Cookie Vision
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Navigon, "Take Me Home". An American Family's Adventures Abroad. Thursday, August 16, 2012. I haven't written anything since we left Germany. Just haven't felt like writing, I guess. But funny little things happen every day, I still have Germany stories I haven't told, and we've been here in Tampa for a year! Plus, I don't sleep. So, it's read Kardashian news (which I am not interested in during normal hours, but, bored at 2am, suddenly you think things like, "Who did. Or write some of these things down.