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51 Reviews The 3-Day-Ticket Museum Pass Berlin is a good buy. For 19 € one has a FREE ADMISSION to 55 museums and exhibitions on three consecutive days. The pass is available at all Berlin Tourist info's or at...
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Marienplatz Munich
23 Reviews The most authentic thing I did in Munich was a beer tour. A guide takes a group of about 12 people to many very Bavarian pubs (Beer garden) and you get a drink for free. My tour was the "size matters...
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Sachsenhausen Frankfurt am Main
5 Reviews The standard tour for newly assigned people was Alte Sachsenhausen, which is a pedestrian zone consisting of cobblestone streets and a variety of bars. My favorite was Spritzhaus, which literally...
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17 Reviews Losing my wallet and U.S. passport! The ultimate nightmare but do not despair: There are NO longer any emergency passport services for U.S. citizens in Hamburg. It is helpful to have a copy of...
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Old Town/Altstadt Cologne
13 Reviews The old core of the town, called Altstadt, is undoubtelly the most charming part of the town. It is situated along the bank of the river Rhein and in the close vicinity of the Dom. The Altstadt is...
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Personal Memories and Impressions Düsseldorf
22 Reviews During week-ends, I love to walk from my house to the altstadt (old city) following the Rhein. One day from the Rhein park, I saw a orange ribbon moving accross the OberKasseler bridge. Hundreds of...
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Altstadt (Old Town) Dresden
12 Reviews Dresden was known as the Florence of the North or the Venice of the River Elbe even before the allied bombings at the end of World War II destroyed most of this once magnificent Baroque city. Thus,...
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City Centre Stuttgart
5 Reviews Have a ride by the city trains (S-Bahn) that travel every five or ten minutes about the city. You can reach city's most remore places in no time by S-Bahn if you have a map with you. You can call...
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17 Reviews The first evidence of human life in Europe was found in Heidelberg: In 1907 a jaw-bone was discovered in a gravel pit in Heidelberg – it is the earliest evidence found of human life in Europe. The...
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Rhine Cruise Koblenz
10 Reviews Background While spending a few days in Cologne, we decided to take a cruise down the Rhine River. Having read many tour books, not having yet been a member of VT, we decided to depart from Cologne...
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Facts / General Information Leipzig
13 Reviews I visited Leipzig in August of 2002 on the way to Karlsruhe where SV BSZS (German Shepherd World dogshow) had to be held. We stayed for a night in Lützen that located 18 km south from Leipzig. We left...
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Expo 2000 Hannover
15 Reviews unfortunately I don't remember at which pavilion I took this picture :-( Maybe at the pavilion of Indonesia??? If anyone out there knows or has an idea whose pavilion this is / could be, then please...
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Rhine River Mainz
6 Reviews We took a tour boat up the Rhine River from Koblenz to Mainz. Although the scenery was, of course, beautiful, when you go upstream, there's a long time between castles. It took us 8 hours - if memory...
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Personal Memories and Impressions Berlin
38 Reviews Berlin is a huge city and to truly explore it takes weeks, but even on a short trip, you can see more than just the central tourist sections by jumping on its extensive mass transit system. We got...
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Oktoberfest Munich
31 Reviews Oktoberfest is a huge massive fair, the area is really big with wide space between the different brewerys's tent. Still, during the weekend you have to expect a big crowd. We were there during the...
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Römer Frankfurt am Main
9 Reviews Historical building, "Römer" 3 former patrician houses (from the 14th century) -with their gothic, triple-gabled front- form the striking facade of the so called "Römer" -the symbol of the city of...
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Personal Memories and Impressions Hamburg
16 Reviews The best thing about Hamburg? How about when you go to stay with your old college teammates in Hamburg they have also called up the guys playing American football in Braunschweig as well. Two nights...
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Kölner Dom (Cologne Cathedral) Cologne
27 Reviews In 1964, when I left my children with my mother and went to meet my husband's ship in Europe, I sent periodic postcards to my daughter. This one had two 20 DM stamps The Cathedral is the...
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Old Town/Altstadt Düsseldorf
13 Reviews An old bicycle underneath a gas lamppost - what a cliche subject for a photograph! Every American who has ever travelled to Europe has taken this picture! But a stroll through Altstadt will make...
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Links & Maps Dresden
5 Reviews The Altstadt has the best known attractions, like: -Zwinger -Green Vault -Frauenkirche -Semper Oper -Royal Mews -Fürstenzug -Royal Palace -Cathedral -Kreuzkirche -Altmarkt Square -Brühl...
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Castles Stuttgart
4 Reviews visit the various castles in and around the city. The new palace for example: it reflects a lot of French influence. Today, in the central building, it houses the rooms for the representatives of the...
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Old Town/Altstadt Heidelberg
13 Reviews Old town is quite small and an easy way to see the city is by walking. We decided to start our walk up to Heidelberg Castle, then make our way back down to old town. The Christmas Market was in full...
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Wine and Vinyards Koblenz
2 Reviews Koblenz is located in Germany's winegrowing region. South of Koblenz is the so-called Rheingau region. The drive thorugh the vineyard is a great experience. In this hilly region almost all hills is...
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Festivals / Markets / Events Leipzig
4 Reviews Leipzig’s fairs have been famous for centuries. In DDR times the spring and autumn trade fairs were the main events of the country’s economy. The DDR fairgrounds with the big double M east of the city...
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Herrenhausen castle and gardens Hannover
4 Reviews Formally built as summer palace of the King of Hannover. This is know the main building of the university of Hannover. In various halls of the building are now auditoriums for the students. The...
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I guess everyony know his name - ADOLF HITLER. It is a shame in our civilation history that he could become Führer for Germany during 40th and drag Europe in a second world war. This man was an evil man, a man who has done so much damge for the world. Well, my memeory is not about him, which I am so happy about. Germany iis a beautiful country and have many tourist attrations to visit.
-It is quite a challenge to get the right prepaid SIM card for a visit in Germany. To be honest, I cannot say if a really good one exists. Depending on your needs, you can be happy or bitterly disappointed. The latter was the case during my last stay.For just texting and making calls with your mobile phone you will not have a problem. Problems arise when you want a good SIM card for surfing the internet with your smartphone, iPad and/or laptop/netbook.I first went fort he seemingly safest option by choosing one oft he big providers which all have shops where you get help in case something does not work. These providers are Telekom (T-mobile), Vodafone and O2.What a mistake!As I have always been a Telekom/T-mobile customer and have also used their prepaid SIM cards on my visits since living overseas, I purchased a 10 Euro card which gives you 100 MB fast-speed internet, plenty of SMS and...
Interested in learning the history of beer. If so, then watching "How Beer Saved the World", a documentary from the Discovery Channel will be of interest to you. Some of their claims are hard to believe but it does shed a slightly different light on human history and the part beer played in shaping our lives. Here's to beer!
Since 1990, Berlin has been Germany's capital, the first time it has held that status since the end of the Second World War. To this day, most people who lived through the Cold War remember Berlin as being a divided city, separated by the infamous Berlin Wall.Berlin grew up on the banks of the River Spree. It is not known when the city was first established, but there is archaeological evidence that people have lived there since at least 1192. The first written documentation of Berlin is from 1237, which is considered the date of the city's founding.In about 1440, Elector Frederick II Irontooth made Berlin the capital of the Magraviate of Brandenburg, and subsequent members of the Hohenzollern family ruled from Berlin until 1918, first as electors, then as kings of Prussia, and eventually as emperors of Germany. In 1701, King Frederick I moved the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia from...
The capital of Germany's southernmost province of Bavaria is Munich. With a metropolitan area of 2,610,000 inhabitants, it is Germany's third-largest city. The word Munich is derived from the Old High German term Munichen, meaning "at the monks' place," because it was originally a monastic settlement founded on the banks of the River Isar by Benedictine monks. The monastery was first settled by the monks in 777 A.D., but the city itself was not founded until about 1158. At that time, Guelph Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria, built a toll bridge across the River Isar next to the monastic settlement, and a town grew up around the river crossing.In 1175, Munich was officially granted city status, and its fortifications were built at the same time. In 1180, Otto I Wittelsbach of Munich became the Duke of Bavaria, and the Wittelsbach Dynasty was begun. The Wittelsbach family ruled...
It takes the average German three minutes to earn enough to buy a beer, exactly the same as 20 years ago, according to a study on Tuesday showing the euro has not eroded Germany's purchasing power. The study by the IW economic institute calculated the average hourly salary of a German living in the west of the country had risen by 45 percent and that the cost of goods and services had increased by 43 percent in the same period. "An hour of work can buy the same amount of goods than it could 20 years ago," the authors of the study wrote. They took as an example a bottle of Kölsch beer - a speciality from the western city of Cologne - "which then as now required three minutes on the production line or in the office." Nevertheless, the cost of other goods and services have changed over two decades. It takes five hours less work than it did 20 years ago to pay for a suit. In contrast, two...
German school holidays mostly vary from state to state. Some states even have more holidays for school kids than others; well, lucky kids :-) Mainly during summer holidays, traffic jams on weekends are guaranteed, so be prepared :-)For school year 2011/2012/2013 the holidays are: (!! I use the German notation for days here!!)Autumn 2012: 2 weeks, between October 1 and November 3;Baden-Württemberg: 29.10., 02.11.2012; Bavaria: 29.10. - 03.11.2012;Berlin: 01.10. - 13.10.2012;Brandenburg: 01.10. - 13.10.2012;Bremen: 22.10. - 03.11.2012;Hamburg: 01.10. - 12.10.2012;Hesse: 15.10. - 27.10.2012;Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: 01.10. - 05.10.2012;Lower Saxony: 22.10. - 03.11.2012;North Rhine-Westphalia: 08.10. - 20.10.2012;Rhineland Palatine: 04.10. - 14.10.2012;Saarland: 22.10. - 03.11.2012;Saxony: 22.10. - 02.11.2012;Saxony-Anhalt: 29.10. - 02.11.2012;Schleswig-Holstein: 04.10. -...
The paint factory in Köthen (Saxony-Anhalt) is since May 1992 Caparol group. Before she was turning her on the capacity of the largest paint manufacturer in Europe with over 50,000 tons alkyd resin. Two thirds of the sales were then in the former Soviet Union.From 1995 to 1998, the factory rebuilt at a cost of approximately DM 40 million and created the most advanced in the opinion of industry experts Bautenlackfabrik Europe.Today in Köthen 3,000 articles are produced, of which over 1,200 alkyd paints. The annual capacity is currently 15,000 tons per year. The system technology is toBe required to acrylic paints or water based systems switched on.1992 Takeover of Lacufa AG, Berlin, with four plants of the Treuhand in Berlin. Lacufa production are:Fürstenwalde, Köthen Rückmarsdorf and Nerchau. There Lacufa offices in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Paints and coatings company LACUFA Ltd.work...
This link list comes from a forum tip asking for locations dealing with World War II. If you are interested in WWII and its backgrounds, you will find many places in Germany. General info: For background information also for young people this site might be good: learning-from-history.de/search/node/world%20war%20II?nocache=1Here you find a long link list dealing with monuments, museums, etc. all over Germany www.ns-gedenkstaetten.de/gedenkstaetten-bundesweit/berlin.htmlBerlin: www.holocaust-denkmal-berlin.de/index.php?id=home&L=1www.dhm.de/ENGLISH/www.topographie.de/en/topography-of-terror/nc/1/Munichwww.ns-dokumentationszentrum-muenchen.de/centre?set_language=enNuremberg (1 hour from Munich) with the Dokuzentrum and a castle:www.nuernberg.de/internet/portal/kultur/ctz_10502.htmlAmsterdam in the Netherlands with the Anne Frank Museum. This might also be suitable for a kid to get an idea...
If you want to see a marvellous display of Rococo in miniature, then a trip to Heidecksburg Castle at Rudolstadt is where you need to go. I went and saw the exhibition and thought it was wonderful!Manfred Kiedorf and Gerhard Bätz have created these miniature buildings with detailed interiors on a scale of 1 : 50 over the course of the past 50 years. There are 10 palaces, about 1000 figures and 1000 items of furniture, built in meticulous detail. The original idea for the two kingdoms of Dyonien and Pelarien was born more than 50 years ago in a role-playing game, which the artists invented in their youth and have developed to perfection up to the present day. So the fictitious planet of Centus is adorned with rulers’ residences, summer palaces, pavilions, a mausoleum and other authentic buildings which house hundreds of invented figures. Every item has a function and a history and even...
Circus - The Hostel Berlin
7 Reviews and 1020 Opinions Having previously stayed in the Central and Western Ku'Dam area I decided on my 3rd visit to stay in...
Hotel Uhland Munich
6 Reviews and 465 Opinions This is a wonderful little hotel on a very quiet residential street very near the Oktoberfest site....
Excelsior Hotel Ernst Cologne
5 Reviews and 261 Opinions A member of the Leading Hotels of the World, Excelsior Hotel Ernst offers a modern version of old...
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