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Berlin, Germany

Nine hours of a bus ride. Did I mention that I hate buses?
A long and extremely boring tour of the city on the steamship.
When more than three people want to go out drinking, they will never agree on where to go. You know that, right? So we wandered around the Reichstag and the new Bahnhof (both very pretty, by the way) before returning to the hotel around 1 a.m.
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Esslingen am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

A totally awesome city. A lot of bridges. A lot of bookstores (I found five withing the first half hour). Want to go there again - sometime.
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Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Visited the United Buddy Bears.
Ate at the McDonald's (*hm* guilty pleasure *hm*)
Read at the park.
Went home.
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Überlingen, Germany

The lake, the promenade, people sitting in cafés and eating ice cream.
Everything's the same as last year when I walked through the city for
the first time. Everything's the same - except for me.
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Tübingen, Germany

Another week of holidays, pretty good weather and great mood. What more is there to wish?
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Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Where has vanished the great weather I enjoyed during my trip alongside the Rhine? In Freiburg there are a lot of rainclouds and a lot of wind. It is difficult to imagine that in an area a couple of hours away I got a massive sunburn. However, the sunburn went away pretty quickly, but I didn't get any tan. Oh well.
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Rüdesheim, Germany



In 1870, due to the diplomatic efforts of Bismarck, the Prussian Chancelor, Napoleon III declared war to Germany which wasn't a united country at the time. This war was, however, the starting point for the new German Empire which existed up until the end of the World War I.
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Sankt Goar, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

It was the very first glimpse of German poetry I've read in my life and I liked Heine ever since. In fact, I like him way more than the "classics" Schiller and Goethe.



Ich weiß nicht was soll es bedeuten,
Daß ich so traurig bin;
Ein Märchen aus alten Zeiten,
Das kommt mir nicht aus dem Sinn.

Die Luft ist kühl und es dunkelt,
Und ruhig fließt der Rhein;
Der Gipfel des Berges funkelt
Im Abendsonnenschein.

Die schönste Jungfrau sitzet
Dort oben wunderbar;
Ihr goldnes Geschmeide blitzet,
Sie kämmt ihr goldenes Haar.

Sie kämmt es mit goldenem Kamme
Und singt ein Lied dabei;
Das hat eine wundersame,
Gewaltige Melodei.

Den Schiffer im kleinen Schiffe
Ergreift es mit wildem Weh;
Er schaut nicht die Felsenriffe,
Er schaut nur hinauf in die Höh.

Ich glaube, die Wellen verschlingen
Am Ende Schiffer und Kahn;
Und das hat mit ihrem Singen
Die Lore-Ley getan.

Actually, there are two statues of the Loreley. One of them is situated at the top of the cliff and is pretty small, whereas the other one is at the bottom and is well-known all over the world.

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Koblenz, Germany



Wilhelm II, the German Emperor, decided to build a statue for his grandfather Wilhelm I in order to show the brilliance of Prussia which was powerful enough to unite all the separate German kingdoms and duchies and re-create the German Empire.
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Tübingen, Germany

The last day of school. I have to suffer through German, English and Chemistry, than tutor an eighth grader in French for the last time and then I'm finally off and can begin to pack.

Tomorrow can't come soon enough.
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