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German Christmas Markets in Baden-Wuerttemberg
Visiting south-west Germany in December might make for a chilly trip, but the reward of being able to experience the Christmas markets more than makes up for it - and there's always the possibility of a white...
2 commentsBook Lovers' Paradise at the Frankfurt Book Fair
As a book lover and complete bookworm since I first began to read, I'd so often heard of and read about the Frankfurt Book Fair that when I found myself living less than two hours south of Frankfurt, a visit...
2 commentsVisiting the Reichstag: German Parliament
Berlin holds a really special place in my traveling heart. As a schoolgirl back in 1990 I was lucky enough to be staying there on October 3, when West and East Germany reunited. Since then, every time I return...
0 commentsHiking Near Burg Hohenzollern, Germany
One of my favorite parts of life in Germany was discovering the fairy tale castles that most tourists don't know about. While Germany's most famous castle, Schloss Neuschwanstein, is so well-known it's even...
2 commentsA Walking Tour of Dresden, Germany
Dresden starts with a disadvantage: in English, its name sounds somewhat foreboding or dreary. And most of us have only heard it mentioned in connection to the war, or as an East German city in disrepair. With...
3 commentsExploring Southern Germany’s Bad Wimpfen
If you want to see a gorgeously typical southern German town, without all the foreign tourists, then I recommend the village of Bad Wimpfen. Apart from having a cute name, it is a historic town with old...
2 commentsGermany’s Most Famous Castle: Schloss Neuschwanstein
Ask a tourist – especially some of my Japanese students when they turn into snap-happy tourists – and they’ll likely tell you that the most famous landmark in Germany is Schloss...
5 commentsBoys’ Toys at the Sinsheim Technik Museum
If you want to climb around inside a Concorde or a Tupolev airplane, or check out a bunch of famous Formula One race cars, the place to head to is the Auto and Technik Museum Sinsheim in southern Germany....
2 commentsA Day Out in Lübeck, Northern Germany
Germany has so many different facets in its many corners: and one of the loveliest cities I’ve found is L
3 commentsStrolling Around Heidelberg
Student cities always seem to have a young and fun feel to them, and Heidelberg is no exception. One of Germany’s most well-known cities - although with a population of just 140,000 it’s not that...
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