The Nostalgic Expat: March 2015

While we lived in Berlin, Brent had a goal to visit all of Germany's 16 states before our three year post was over. We lived in one, as Berlin is one of three city-states (Bremen and Hamburg are the other two), so we only had 15 to go after arriving in August 2006. Most were pretty easy to check off because we had many castles to see and drove all over the country to see them. There is one state that only Brent can claim to have officially visited while I have only driven through (Brent has been to Hannover in Lower Saxony, but I have only driven through it to get to Bremen, a city-state surrounded by Lower Saxony). Since we drove all over the place, we only had to go out of the way to visit the small state of Saarland, which is tucked in a corner of the country, but it was still easy to accomplish on our two-week road trip through the Rhein region. It still took us our entire time at post to reach Brent's goal... we ended up visiting our last state, Bremen, just a few days before flying out in June 2009.

Here are a list of the 16 states and the towns within which we have visited. I also include some pictures of select places. I'm bummed because they may not be the best pictures and some of the towns are not represented by pictures... most of my really good shots include a couple of cute kids, and I'm trying to keep their faces off this blog. ;)

Baden-Württemberg - Stuttgart, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Sigmaringen, Baden-Baden, Freiburg, Schwarzwald, Triberg

Bavaria (Bayern) - München, Nürnburg, Regensburg, Würzburg, Bamberg, Dachau, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Zugspitze, Füssen, Hohenschwangau, Oberammergau, Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Berlin

Brandenburg - Potsdam, Cottbus, Lehnin, Brandenburg an der Havel, Raddusch, Oranienburg

Bremen

Hamburg

Hesse (Hessen) - Wiesbaden, Rüdesheim, Frankfurt

Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) - Hannover... This was a business trip for Brent, so I do not have any pictures!

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern - Schwerin, Rügen, Usedom, Ahlbeck, Heringsdorf