February 05, 2015

Underwater Cities

February 05, 2015/ Meghan Oaks

On Sunday, we checked off another item on our Bucket List - diving in Sundhäuser See. I can't remember exactly how I found out about this lake, although I think it was this PADI article I read about a year ago. What caught my eye was the underwater city part. And the fact that it was one of the closer ones to us that was listed. We weren't going to be far from the lake so it naturally made sense to pay it a visit.

February 03, 2015

Mine Tours and Snow

February 03, 2015/ Meghan Oaks

We found snow! This weekend, we headed north, instead of south, to the town of Goslar. We left after work on Friday and headed out. On our way, we stopped and stayed in a small hotel in a small outdoor recreation area next to a river. Conveniently, this was their first snowfall of the year, meaning the snow was still clean, and it coated everything. It was absolutely beautiful! Inconveniently, the Germans apparently didn't know how to drive in the snow. About 30 km away from our final destination, traffic

January 30, 2015

New Look, Same Stuff

January 30, 2015/ Meghan Oaks

Well hello and Happy Friday! If you're reading this in a browser, you may have noticed something different. Submerged Oaks has gotten a little bit of a make-over! Aaron and I both felt that the old design was ok, but we thought we could do better. It started with a change in color pallet and snowballed from there. There were a lot of changes behind the scene that we had to figure out, but we like the new look and layout much better.

January 27, 2015

Real Life

January 27, 2015/ Meghan Oaks

The life of an expat can be glamorous. Traveling, seeing new places, having new experiences. But then reality sets in. We can't travel all the time unfortunately. Things like work and cleaning and cooking and laundry can get in the way.

And that's what happened this weekend. We've been busy pretty much every weekend since the beginning of December. There was Munich and then Cologne, and then we ...

January 23, 2015

Exploring Pilsen: The Brewery Museum, The Underground Tour and European Capital of Culture

January 23, 2015/ Meghan Oaks

While in Pilsen, there were a couple of other places that we wanted to visit: the brewery museum and the underground tour. I did some research before we went and noted that if you purchases tickets for multiple tours on the same day, you would get a 25% discount. Always looking for a good value, this is what we ended up doing. I thought three tours in one day would be too much but as it turns out, it wasn't.

January 21, 2015

Exploring Pilsen: The Pilsner Urquell Brewery

January 21, 2015/ Meghan Oaks

The morning after our beer bathing experience, we headed on to Pilsen. It was only 45 minutes from Chodovar Plana and made for a nice way to extend our long weekend in the Czech Republic. I had booked us a hotel in the city center of Pilsen, but due to the opening ceremonies of the European Capital of Culture festivities that weekend, car traffic was restricted. Thankfully, there was a parking structure not far away. Our first stop when we got into Pilsen was the Pilsner Urquell brewery. We had planned ...

January 20, 2015

Bucket List: Bathing in Beer

January 20, 2015/ Meghan Oaks

Yes, you read that title correctly. No, we did not accidentally fall into a vat of beer. We did it on purpose. Just kidding, we didn't fall, we carefully stepped into it. This past weekend, we knocked another item off our European Bucket List and took a bath in a tub full of beer, while drinking beer, all in the name of our health!

Czech is known for it's beer. It's given the world the Pilsner style of beer, including Pilsner Urquell and Budweiser (among many others). Ok, so the version of the latter with which most Americans are familiar ...