Knorr Family Adventures

I can't believe it's nearly the end of November!  The boys had their 2 week fall break in the last 2 weeks of October.  We knew that we wanted to go somewhere pretty early on and we settled on Hungary.  However, when all the recent issues in Hungary came up we decided that it wasn't so smart and changed it up to Legoland.  That's about all the plan we had until 1 day before we left.  About 24 hours before we left we decided to look on the map and plan our route - advanced planning with 3 kids at its best.  I've heard of spa town called Baden Baden and thought it would be a good first stop.  Thankfully, Chris found out some information and apparently, it's not so kid friendly.  After that we booked a hotel in Stuttgart and decided to take the boys to the pool and then explore Stuttgart a bit. Pool as always was a blast. Stuttgart, as we found out, has a couple of interesting sights - public library, Porsche museum.  Unfortunately, we didn't make it to the m

Saturday before the school started we came back from a 2 week vacation travelling through mostly southern France and spending a week in the resort town Miami Platja in Spain.   Spain is drastically different from Germany.   Starting from the fact that nearly nobody speaks English and neither Chris nor I have any knowledge of Spanish, the supermarkets have different assortment of foods which actually resembles more American in the brands they carry (Hellmann’s, Kellogg’s,   etc.).   Of course it does have really good Spanish ham!     We rented 2-bedroom apartment for a week which was done in a very Spanish style with orange and green walls and tile floors.     It had a tiny kitchen but enough to make a quick breakfast and a sandwich, but the best part was the pool downstairs as well as the proximity to the beach.   One beach was 5 minute away by walking (super local, very few tourists), another was about 7 minutes away by car (semi-local, semi-tourist) and the third beach was about