Pack your bags and take a trip around the world with us. Here you’ll find vacation highlights and advice from our favorite destinations throughout the U.S. and Europe.
If you’re looking for a place to relax and unwind near Wiesbaden, we recommend checking out the Rhein-Main-Therme spa and wellness center. We got to enjoy this thermal bath complex and adjoining hotel as a wedding gift from Ryan’s coworkers.
As soon as we arrived at Vital Hotel Frankfurt, we put on our swimsuits, robes and slippers and kicked off the weekend with Prosecco…the best way to kick off any weekend.
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We had our first visitor from back home! Just a few weeks into living abroad, Ryan’s cousin Taylor told us her flight was booked so I quickly began planning our itinerary. Read on to see all the fun we had exploring nearby towns…and getting a little lost along the way.
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Our first week here, I googled events in Germany and discovered the world’s largest pumpkin festival – on the same list as Oktoberfest so it must be good.
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We knew we wanted to travel as much as possible while living here in Germany. First stop on our list was the nearby city of Mainz – only 10 minutes from Wiesbaden by train and the perfect place for a day trip.
On Saturdays they host something called the Market Breakfast. Think farmers market, wine tour and tailgate all in one.
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“Welcome to Germany.”
This is what a stranger told me when I asked for help at the Frankfurt train station and couldn’t use Google to find the answer because I didn’t have WiFi…
I never realized how much we millennials depend on our phones, until living in a foreign country with no WiFi. There are just some things we need modern technology for…like finding your way around a new city and posting Insta stories to document your whole life. Sometimes I even find myself scrolling aimlessly through my newsfeed only for Ryan to remind me that I don’t have WiFi. Imagine going a full day without Facebook stalking!
We’ve hit the one month mark of living abroad and I wanted to take a moment to reflect on what’s different about living here in Germany.
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I know you’ve all been dying to see our home away from home here in Germany (well maybe just our family…but we’re going to show you anyway!). We are quite impressed with our first European flat. It’s clean, quiet, organized, modern, comfortable, and just a short walk to downtown Wiesbaden. You know, where all of the cute cafés are. 😉
It’s always a gamble to sign a lease sight unseen – praying that the place actually looks like the photos. Being catfished by your new home is the worst kind of catfishing.
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Moving to Germany had always been on our radar since Ryan’s job brought him here for the first time.
When we got the official approval, it was time to – as we like to say – spring into action.
We shared the exciting news with our family and friends, collected all of the required paperwork, met with the German Consulate in Chicago, found a flat, updated my passport with my new married name (called in a panic to change to expedited processing), booked our flights.
All was going according to plan – until it was two weeks, one week, one day before our scheduled flight – and still no Visas (or passports…they take those when you apply for the Visa). By this point, I was in absolute panic mode. Our flights were already booked, first month’s rent already paid – what were we going to do?
Continue reading “Getting Here.”
Welcome to Reagles On The Rhine. We’re so glad you’ve joined us on this exciting journey abroad! For those of you who are new here (aren’t we all?!), we’re a newly married couple from Michigan that just moved to Wiesbaden, Germany.
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Reagles in Reality 