Wernigerode, Germany

In need of some fresh air and a break from big cities we headed into the country side of former East Germany to the small town of Wernigerode and the adjacent Harz Mountains National Park. The Harz Mountains are famous in Germany as a place said to be ...

A travel blog entry by mightylongway
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... go to the castle, but it looks nice and I got a picture of it, albeit from far away. The thing I least liked about Wernigerode was the obscene about of roadworks that were being conducted there. When I drive around in Germany I use a Mercedes A-Class 180 ...

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* Wernigerode ... another favourite of ours ... this city is on UNESCO`s world heritage list and for an excellent reason ... it looks as though nothing has changed for quite a few hundred years! We took an old steam train up to Mt Brocken (it was going to ...

... train adventure we did have a rather limited, very German breakfast at the hotel and then check out the main sites of Wernigerode: the Marktplatz, Rathaus and various pedestrian streets. It has been a very cold day in town, with a light but chilling ...