Germany
Travel Blogs from Germany
Not Another Royal Palace!!
... bridge was once used to exchange spies from the East and West Berlin states - yes the wall came down to this part of Germany also. Potsdam was where Friedrich the Great decided to build his Royal Palace. He was named 'the Great' as he ...
Berlinoiseries
J ai loue un velo hier et je me suis promene dans la ville. Il y a un immense parc au centre de Berlin, tres tres jolie. C'est tellement grand que je me suis perdu. En voulant m'arreter pour lire un peu je suis tombe sur un monsieur qui s'adonnait ...
Western Europe - been there, done that
This will be my last entry from the tour around Western Europe. Some people have asked me questions like "where did you go in Italy?" and I'll start naming off most the places I went, but have already started to forget some of the names of the smaller ...
Oktoberfest Prost!
I am in love. It's been ten years since I've been back to the city where I first studied abroad in college and I still love everything about it ... the mountain air, the friendly people and great beer! For me, Munich also represents the ...
Oktoberfest the 8th
Another year, A different weekend, Loads of beers, I need a liver transplant, And as usual, The Oktoberfest rocked, ...
Oktoberfest the third
So once more, we back in Munich. Home of the five-storey sports store, where we relieved them of any spare rolls. We hung out and visited our usual haunts, well mainly the one, the Augustiner beer hall in the city, but we did make the effort to go the ...
Aliens in Cologne
... attraction but surprisingly enough, it ended up being one the most interesting things we've seen since we've been in Germany. Since our friend Kelly works in construction, he is fascinated with anything have to do with excavation and heavy machinery. ...
Germany, France, Switzerland, Germany
Between Koblenz and Bingen, this is the most spectacular part. Castles abound everywhere. Even the railway tunnels have turrets. The reason being is that during WW2, it was agreed that monuments would not be bombed, and as trains were needed, the only ...
Munich, the first. Prost
... as this was the way to the campground. The signs ran out, only to be replaced with signs for the Thalkirken. The biggest campground in Germany. Never have I seen so many tents in my life. All the tour groups come and stay here, all the vans that have been ...
Waiting for Gufman
(S) My first trip to Germany!!! After my grandfather leaving this country 80 years ago, I'm finally here. We find a hotel with limited difficulty. It would seem Chad expects my German to be perfect - even though I took it for one year when I was 16. Let's ...
Oktoberfest the 13th
September means only one thing and that is Oktoberfest, and as number 13 was calling, we headed off on our usual trip Leading up to it Woggy once again supplied us with our shirts whilst PP Travel gave us our usual top floor room in the Senator which is ...
Missed the connection
We were a little over two hours late leaving JFK and had a 55 minute layover in Munich before our connection to Ankara. Needless to say, we didn't make it. Business is apparently quite good for the airlines at present because nearly everything was ...
More Berlin: Galleries, Mammoths, and Protests
We're near the end of our stay in Berlin and still had a lot more sightseeing to do in the city, catching up with Frank's family and friends, and also catching up on sleep! So we decided to axe Prague from the itinerary. Darn, next ...
What's Up Doc- Part IV - Where is Sleeping Beauty?
... away and the nurse gave me the rest of the sedative left in the needle until they finished the procedure. Apparently in Germany, their idea of administering sedatives is based on this theory: If you get sleepy with a little bit, then they assume you ...
Chapter 52: The Hills Are Alive...
... I can't buy a pen to update my written journal), so I figured I'd squeeze in one more online entry before I go galavanting around Germany with Ben and then Jonas. That last day in Croatia was pretty grim by all counts. Rebecca, Scott, and I were all ...
Oktoberfest, the 2nd
... beer, and what we did next was discover the nectar of the gods. Augustiner. This is easily the best beer in Munich, perhaps Germany, not the world though, and after the crap we had just had, this flowed like nothing we had had before at the Oktoberfest. ...
Weinachts, the Sixth
... it, so we had a look, and sadly to say, that is all we had time for, as we had a flight to catch back to London And Finally There is nothing like Christmas in Germany, maybe the world could learn a thing or two, but until it does, we will keep coming ...
Friesland - ah, the Moose genetic homeland
(C) We had to make a stop in Oldenburg on our way across northern Germany. Found a few places and want to go back to find some more. Next trip will include Waddens, near Bremerhaven, where my great grandpa Diedrich Gerhard Luers was born - ...
Berlin - The Wall.
... A massive new monument to the Jews who were murdered (yes, the word murdered is now used) has been recently completed in Berlin. Germany is deeply in debt because it took on the problems that the communist East had when it was unified, but there is an ...
Sick as a puppy!
My Saturday night in Berlin was a disappointment, given that my flu etc. has developed into one of the worst I've had this year... I went out but lasted only half an hour and one drink - I couldn't do it. I feel like absolute s*** and wish I didn't have ...
Christmas markets again
Having been to the Christmas markets the previous year, Lucy and I booked another flight to go to Germany for another weekend. This time, we planned to do the markets in Munster and koln, once again. We also wanted to get back to Wewelsburg as we wanted ...
Eastern Germany
... . Lucy had always come here, so we had a quick walk around, and then it happened, we found the home of Goethe. All through Germany, streets are named after him, so it was slightly exciting for us to see this important piece of German history. Last but not ...
Hamburg
... ?" A group of serously baked fratboys in the next seat stared at their pens for a half hour before marking a resounding "Ja!" Germany (again). At 4.36 yesterday arvo, Liam and I pulled into Lübeck station. I think it was Lübeck. Something ...
In Munich
I have simply been taken away by Munich's eclectic atmosphere, stunning architecture, friendly people, cheaper prices than overpriced Amsterdam, the food and the beer! More about this later. My last day in Amsterdam was spent in Haarlem... to visit ...
The Third Reich
... , we hit the cake shops as I was actually hanging for a mandlehorn as I did not get one when we were in Leipzig. This is Germany after all, so free U-Bahns everywhere and we ended up at the Zoo station. We wanted to see the old church that had been bombed ...
Soccer Rocks!
... the week on SkySports, you only see single-sentence coverage on the bottom of CNN. I found out the 1st day in Germany that Cologne has their own professional soccer team. When asking some locals questions about when and where they played, they all ...
Goodbye to Andrew
... as usual, and then tried to find the old roads that were used for this track, but once this was proving too hard, we headed for Germany. We were going to the Nurburgring. For quite a while now, 2 guys at work, Paul and Al, we had been talking about going ...
Munich - Home Of October Fest.
... pets and he was going to open a hostel in Oz called wombats. He died soon after they met him and when they got back to Germany they followed through with his idea and opened hostels in Vienna and Munich. We booked a pub crawl for the first night and had a ...
Getting Jaron and Amy to Warm Up to Us a Little
This happened to be a very nice day out as well. For lunch Diane made us a German dish called spietzle (probably butchered the spelling of that) which is homemade noodles and then in the afternoon Sylvia decided it was a good day for ice cream and so we ...
