Hotels am Kranichsee
Check rates and availability for this hotel
Find the best prices for Hotels am Kranichsee from our 3 partners. Show all partners
Travel Blogs from Goslar
Dancing Astronauts, Science Demos & Prison Studies
... br> All this I could expect. I did not expect to see dancing astronauts on stage at the university's main lecture hall. We watched in utter amazement. The crowd even joined in when they concluded by dancing Gangnam style.
We also watched a 30 minute documentary about the BBC Prison Study that investigated psychological behaviours of groups of people in a disproportionate power situation. ...
Bike Ride
The leaves have lingered on the trees here in Braunschweig...so come with me on a brief journey through the park that is just a few blocks from our home; and along the Oker River, which I cross each time ...
Lost in translation
I can't imagine how I've butchered the German language in my attempts to communicate here. However, I recently received an email from a German banker that made me laugh and made me feel a little better about how difficult it can be to get the wording just right:
I sent a note to Frau M., who had helped us set up our Deutsche Bank account, ...
Greetings from the Top of [middle] Germany
... better as the day progressed. We arrived in a little town called Schierke. It was from here we would be making our journey to the top of the behemoth mountain called Brocken. We found a place to park and started hiking. Even though it was only about 10 km to the top of Brocken, it was 531 vertical meters from where we started. That makes for a rather hard hike! When we got ...
Settling in...
In the last two weeks we have...made blueberry pancakes, taken in a Braunschweig Lions football (soccer) game, visited Ikea AGAIN, bought bikes, enjoyed Braunschweig's 10th annual KulturNacht (culture night with various food stands and free music concerts all over the city), tasted poffertjes twice, Skyped with our 3 amazing sons, taken the trolley, the train and the bus, savored a good glass of wine, cleaned ...