Oberursel – the town we call home, and the town we have spent way more time in than we ever thought we would. One of the weirdest things about doing an assignment abroad is that before you move, you think probably 90% of the time will be all vacation and amazing experiences, with work and school filling the rest. The reality is that most of the time is spent building a life – getting food, finding friends, cleaning, cooking, celebrating, getting haircuts and your car fixed, paying overdue bills and speeding tickets, figuring out braces and ER visits and interacting with all kinds of people, kind and helpful and mean and sarcastic and everything in between.

Oberursel has been that place for us, the place where almost everything happens, and all things considered, it has been an absolute delight to live in – 20 minutes to Frankfurt, 2 minute walk to a massive forest, 2 minute walk to horse fields and apple orchards, and just enough takeout food and services to manage through this last year and a half. In terms of sights, it’s light, but there is a Fountain Festival and a professional cycling race that we hope to get to see before we leave. It’s simply home, and we are really thankful we ended up here.

20 Days, 20 German Towns: Bad Nauheim – Rüdesheim – Königstein – Travemünde – Cologne – Garmisch-Partenkirchen – Bad Soden – Mainz – Wiesbaden – Berlin – Schwangau – Frankfurt – Bad Homburg – Hamburg – Rust – Langenargen – Bad Sobernheim – Nuremberg – Limburg – Oberursel