Wednesday, February 20, 2013

deutschland



let us introduce you to our new adventure...coming late summer 2013...

ANSBACH, BAYERN (Bavaria), GERMANY


i will be assigned to the 12th combat aviation brigade, aka 'the griffins'. my specific unit is the 3rd battalion 158th assault helicopter regiment. i will be their flight surgeon. my unit just returned from deployment in afghanistan last week.


but the important part:

--finally!!! a schwimmbad!!! http://www.myaquella.de/aquella-the-pools/water-park.html?L=1 (wave pool, hot tubs, lazy river, water slides, saunas)

--our ward is joint german/american including Ansbach, Heilsbronn, and Rothenburg ob der Tauber

--the famous medieval town, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, is in our ward (half hour away)

--places less than three hours drive: Prague, Czech Rep; Munich, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Berchtesgaden, Germany; Liechtenstein; Strasbourg, France; St. Bartholomew's Church on Konigsee; Ludwig's Neuschwanstein castle; and much much more

--RYANAIR: flies out of Nuremburg (half hour away) and Memmingen (1.5 hrs) with SUPER cheap flights to: Pisa, Sardinia, Portugal, London, and Mediterranean coast of Spain; and Greece, Rome, Barcelona, Sicily, Stockholm, Ireland, Scotland, Marrakech respectively http://www.ryanair.com/en/cheap-flight-destinations


--Christmas Markets! 












--bakeries, gummis, autobahn, train travel, european culture, mild barley beverages, bundesliga soccer


smack dab in the middle of europe:

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start saving and planning now! come visit us!

4 comments:

Emy said...

I am totally coming. Hopefully both Ben and I at some point will come! If you two have to move so far away, at least it is to somewhere awesome. We are supportive and also sad to hear your news. Congratulations anyway! We love you guys.

Libby said...

Flight surgeon!? Am I missing something? It looks amazing guys. Not gonna lie we will miss you so much...but we will def come to visit,

MomCan said...

Have you considered going into "TRAVEL PACKAGES" after Germany? I will def. sign up and def. save to come and see you again and again and again. Once for each country. But mostly for you four. LOVE you and I am so proud of you James and of YOU Wynn. It will be great.

MomCan said...

And by the way, thanks for posting on this blog. I am grateful.