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Rijnland-Palts, de deelstaat in het zuidwesten van Duitsland, heeft heel wat te bieden voor een leuke nazomer mini-break. Ideaal ook voor families met kinderen, die er even tussenuit willen. (zoals wij dus) ;-) Trier. Ik kwam er voor het eerst zo'n 30 jaar geleden (!) onder leiding van mijn toenmalige leraar Latijn en de levendige studentenstad moet toch een indruk op mij hebben nagelaten, want ik keerde er sindsdien nog een héél aantal keer terug....
If you have kids like we do, theme parks come into your life at some point or the other, whether you're a big fan or not. ;-) So like any other family, the past few years we went on day trips to Plopsa, the Efteling, Bobbejaanland and so on and so on... Last week however, we were offered the chance to discover one of Europe's biggest and best theme parks, Europa-Park in Rust, Germany. Although the Park has been voted Europe's favourite theme park for several years in a row now... we had never heard of it... All the reason to go and see what is was all about! From where we live, it's a five and a half hour drive to the park. To know if we liked it or not... you'll have to read on!...
"If not now, when?" states one of the many signs next to Tulum's main beach road. It pretty much sums up why @byevamaria and myself decided to head to Tulum for a short break, just the two of us. This blogpost is by no means the ultimate guide to Tulum (plenty of blogs about that btw), no, it's just an overview of what we did (and didn't do) in the six days we had....