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* Dreilander Point - a little spot near Aachen where the borders of Germany, Netherlands and Belgium intersect. There's a concrete post in the ground marking the point, and we walked around it saying: 'If this is Tuesday, this must be Belgium, no Germany, no the Netherlands ... and so on!' And it was Tuesday when I was there!
* St Nikolai Church in Hamburg. All that remains of this once beautiful building is the spire and some bricks. It is so sad to see what war can do to such a place. The display in the cellar of its history and what is planned for its future, is both eye-opening and tear-jerking. It moved me to tears. Leave a Comment
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Bielefeld is not exactly popular with tourists, nevertheless I decided to include it in my travel guide. It is not so bad after all, though it is sometimes used as a synonym for a totally dull and boring city. It will never become a major tourist destination in my lifetime, but even a dull city can have its good sides!
If you go there, look for
- the Crüwell House (one of the few remaining renaissance buildings, due to WW2 bombings)
- the Old Town Hall (not so old after all, built 1904)
- Sparrenburg Castle (on a hill within the city limits - good view on the city)
- Kunsthalle (art museum) - some interesting temporary exhibitions
- the "Bauernhaus-Museum", an Open Air museum with old farm buildings and a windmill
- the small zoo in Olderdissen.
Apart from that, Bielefeld is
- rather close to the region "Ostwestfalen-Lippe" and the cities of Bückeburg (great renaissance palace), Rinteln, Stadthagen and Havixbeck (nice Old Town).
- to the the Arminius monument (dedicated to a Germanic tribal leader who battled the Romans, built in the 19th century),
- to another impressive patrotic monument (Kaiser Wilhelm-Denkmal) in the city of Porta Westfalica
- to the geological monument "Externsteine" and the surrounding National Reserve with good hiking possibilities.
The most remarkable thing about Bielefeld seems to be the so-called "Bielefeld Conspiracy". There are people that claim that this city doesn`t exist for real. The reason is unclear to me, but there is an explanation that is because Bielefeld is barely recognizable from Google Earth.
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Check out information on Heligoland which is a small island near Hamburg,Germany.I thoroughly enjoyed my trip there with my young son about 12 years back!It is a very cute,sailing town with duty free shopping,relaxed atmosphere.I loved the layout of the island. I also found the whole atmosphere very relaxed inspite of it being a duty free place.Not many know about it outside of Germany.
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Former East Germany has also a lot of jewels that do not fit into the grey image that we have about that part of the country. Leave a Comment
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Generally, travelers are too regimented and too afraid of wandering off the beaten path. For example, we celebrated Pentacost by joining a procession after Mass at a small Bavarian church in Rupberg. Then, after Mass we joined the parishioners at the annual festival--brats and beer and fellowship. Leave a Comment
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Germany has great Pizza parlors, but pferroni is not pepperoni, it is a green pepper and the dark olives have pits in them. Beware!! Leave a Comment
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Getting off the main roads and traveling through small towns that have traditional architecture and totally unlike the large urban areas
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