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Emma | American living in Germany
travel advisor & adventurous eater
lived on 3 continents
traveled to 50+ countries
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Hopeful wanderer. ✈️ Aspiring foodie. 🧁American expat in Italy. 🇮🇹 Military spouse. 🇺🇸 Dog mom. 🐺
If I'm not traveling, I'm probably cooking!

20/10/2025

Best part of a festival is the food! Rating everything we ate over three days at our local kraut festival.

First glass of wine: weisburgunder (pinot blanc) Not a great start, especially because usually these are great! 6/10

Smoked sausage on a bun, plus fries 8/10

Can’t resist arancini!This one was okay, not great but not terrible. 7/10

Wine and beer with lunch 10/10, just what we wanted!

Chimney cakes! One of my favorite Christmas market foods. So good we had to get two, we weren’t sharing. 9/10

Red wine 10/10, really good typical red for this area

Flammekuchen, a flatbread dish you’ll find here and in southeast France (called torte flambee there) - 8/10

Schnapps 11/10, because free! I love the tradition of handing these out when listening to the bands sometimes. I had honey flavor and Logan had kirsch. Kirsch tasted a bit cough syrup.

Gyro with tzatziki and sauerkraut- 8/10. Good, but I’m scared to admit I’d rather it without the kraut.

Baked potato with tzatziki- 10/10. This is now my favorite baked potato topping and will be doing this again.

White wine & Krautfest beer - 9/10

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19/10/2025

I kid you not, our big annual festival is….

Kraut!

Yes, cabbage. Specifically, this particular type that’s giant and pointy.

Krautfest runs three days and is packed with food, games, performances, and SO MUCH CABBAGE!

It made me laugh to embrace the stereotype (and the kraut).

Before you roll your eyes, it’s a massive festival! It hosts about 50,000 visitors every year and the booths range over two towns.

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09/10/2025

Christmas markets are just around the corner! Trying to plan a trip? Here’s when many of the major ones open:

🇩🇪 Stuttgart: November 26
🇭🇺 Budapest: November 15
🇩🇪 Rothenburg ob der tauber: November 21
🇦🇹 Salzburg: November 20
🇩🇪 Munich: vary, earliest November 17, most by 24th
🇨🇿 Prague: vary, earliest November 20, all by 29th
🇩🇪 Berlin: vary, earliest on October 31, most by November 24
🇩🇪 Cologne: vary, earliest November 14, all by 20
🇫🇷 Strasbourg: November 26
🇫🇷 Colmar: November 25
🇩🇪 Heidelberg: November 24
🇮🇹 Bolzano: November 28
🇭🇷Zagreb: November 29
🇦🇹 Vienna: vary, earliest November 6, all by 14th
🇨🇭 Basel: November 27
🇩🇪 Mannheim: November 24
🇩🇪 Dusseldorf: November 20
🇫🇷 Ribeauville: December 6
🇩🇪 Bonn: November 21
🇩🇪 Aachen: November 21
🇩🇪 Monschau: November 29
🇫🇷 Obernai, France November 28
🇩🇪 Essen: November 14
🇩🇪 Dortmund: November 20

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08/10/2025

Meersburg is the German lake town you didn’t know you needed to add to your fall travel list!

Off the coast of Lake Constance/Bodensee is the small town of Meersburg. It has all the charm of a medieval village, but none of the crowds in the fall!

P.S. swipe for the cutest visitor in town 🐻

The palace here is the oldest inhabited castle in Germany. And Germans love their castles, so this is actually saying something.

It’s surrounded on three sides by rolling hills of vineyards, so there are plenty of places to walk, bike, and sip something local!

On that note: there’s a wine museum. You can do tastings.

Another perk: the ferries still run regularly. So you can get to more cute towns without waiting around all day for the schedule.

Go to Mainau! The “flower island” is all one massive garden and arboretum. They have truly more types of dahlias than I’ve ever seen, 200-year-old trees, and some cute farm animals for the kiddos!

New here? Hey! I’m Emma, an American living in Germany. I’ve spent five years in Italy and now we’re trying out the Stuttgart area as our home base! Follow along for travel advice and life in Germany and Italy!

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18/07/2025

We’re here we’re here we’re here!

We made it to Stuttgart! It’s been a whirlwind of luggage, flights, and logistics!

Nico did great and slept a lot on the flights. Jet lag recovery with a baby has been tough, but the flip side is that we’re used to being sleep deprived anyway, so this is more of the same.

I said this in my stories, but the irony of moving abroad with the military is that you’re pretty much stuck on base for the first few days until you figure out your driving situation.

And it’s practically required that they reject your documents somewhere within the process at least once before things get sorted out. (She writes, sitting in the lobby of the vehicle registration office waiting for her insurance to show up on the govt database.)

So fingers crossed that we get this solved today and can get out and about this weekend!

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Teaspoon of Nose exists to inspire busy people to travel, eat & live the way they want, and to give them tools to actually do it!

Travel should be life-changing and eye-opening, times of learning and experiencing and connecting. Eating should be the same: an experience rather than a necessity, a tangible way to care for yourself and others and experience more of what this world has to offer.

Emma wants to help you travel more, cook better food, and experience as much of life as you possibly can without breaking the bank or running away!