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Weirdest Christmas Tradition Ever
Austria is a Christmassy sort of place. It gets plenty cold by the beginning of December, and snow usually arrives right on schedule. In the countryside, impossibly quaint small towns look like they...
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An Advent Photo Gallery
Vienna is nothing if not photogenic at Christmas time. Click any photo for a slide show with captions. Enjoy!Filed under: Europe Tagged: Austria, Christmas, Vienna
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Christmas Outside the Box
Last year, Christmas was frankly kind of a bummer. We had been living in the States for the previous seven years, celebrating big Christmases with extended family. Switching gears to a...
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Vesele Vanoce v Praze!
Last week, my daughter and I decided to hop a train to Prague for a couple of nights. She had not visited since we left that post in 2004. It was interesting the places that she remembered with...
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Christmas Lesson Learned
Last year, we had a really lovely Christmas vacation in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. We decided that since we couldn’t do a traditional Christmas, we’d do it exactly how we liked. And it worked out very...
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The Christmas Curve
For our first married Christmas in Arlington we had a little potted tree with about six ornaments. (Also, a really bad camera.) But we were still “the kids,” and Christmas consisted of spending...
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Krakow’s Christmas Market
Poland is not generally known for its Christmas markets. In fact, I’d been told by many people here not to expect too much of them—maybe because our previous post was Vienna! While most Polish markets...
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Krakow’s Christmas Market: Food Edition
Street food is one of the chief attractions of any Christmas market. Krakow has plenty on offer! We weren’t there long enough to try everything, but it all sure smelled good. Filed under: Europe...
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Wrapping Up 2016
A few updates to wrap up the year that was. We spent Christmas week in Prague. That was a bit star-crossed. My daughter and I managed to miss our flight from Milan and spent the first night in an...
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Three years ago, in 2014, I blogged about how our Christmases have changed over the years. The Christmas Curve was about how our tiny newlywed tree nearly three decades ago grew into a Beast over the...
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