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Outside Berlin Berlin
32 Reviews I'ts a trip to dispair. You can see the quiet within the madness that a concentration camp used to be. The place around looks so peaceful it's hard to believe the horrors that went on in there. Take a...
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Dachau and Dachau Concentration camp Munich
22 Reviews Being a history major, I had been interested in seeing things from the other side. I met up on the bus to the site with a tour guide who was in training and they were trying to gather people for a...
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Skyscrapers Frankfurt am Main
15 Reviews Here is part of the Frankfurt skyline as seen from another unusual vantage point, namely from the Camberger Bridge, which connects the Gutleut and Gallus discticts by crossing over the railroad tracks...
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Blankenese Hamburg
9 Reviews Blankenese is a small village in the outskirts of Hamburg and it is well known for lovely villas facing the river Elbe. Rich and wealthy people build their regular residence or summerhouses there. You...
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Kaiserswerth Düsseldorf
4 Reviews This old stretcher is quite different to those we know by watching 'Emergency Room' on TV. It was used in 1850 in Diakonissenanstalt Kaiserswerth on the Rhine. I wonder about the cover on top. Was it...
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Around Stuttgart Stuttgart
7 Reviews hallo, i live in Germany for a half year and i've been in most of the places in Baden Wurtemberg by now. And i take all my friends who come here just for a weekend to Esslingen. Esslingen is a small...
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Saxonian Switzerland Dresden
16 Reviews This is a wonderful side trip to see something not usually found in Germany. The rock formations are about 600 feet above the Elbe river and formed over one million years ago resulting in jagged rocks...
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Expo Memories Hannover
9 Reviews Mongolia represented itself with a Jurt village. These are big round tents. I entered one and found a photographer and a rack full of Mongolian clothes. There was nobody around save the photographer...
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Leaving the highway Koblenz
2 Reviews Burg Lahneck is in a distance of just 6 km from Koblenz and you will see it already from the highway, when driving along the river Rhine. Lahnstein was built high above the place, where the river LAHN...
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Hidden Architectural Gems Leipzig
6 Reviews From my room I had a perfect view of the area north of old town that was developed in the late 19th century. In the centre of this area is the Nordplatz, a beautiful square which is dominated by St....
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Excavation Sites Mainz
3 Reviews As you can see, the excavation site begins right next to the platform of track 4, where an InterCity Express is going through (without stopping, of course). There is only a wire fence separating the...
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Things to do Berlin
25 Reviews The Mauerpark Flea Market is located in Prenzlauer Berg. Vendors vary from artists selling paintings and prints to antique dealers to people selling random junk. This large outdoor Flea Market is...
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Schloss Neuschwanstein Munich
16 Reviews Schloss Neuschwanstein is one of the most beautiful 2nd set of seven wonders of the world. King Ludwig spent the Bavarian empire into bankruptcy to build this and other castles in the proximity area....
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Zoos and Parks Frankfurt am Main
15 Reviews Most cities, especially those associated with big business, tend to emphasize just how green and liveable they really are. I suppose that Frankfurt doesn’t feel that necessary, as I have had a rather...
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Around St. Pauli and the port Hamburg
13 Reviews In the port of Hamburg you may see and visit one of the largest non-atomic-submarines in the world : the Soviet spy-submarine U-434 ! In times of the cold war it was impossible to even see such...
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Schloss Benrath Düsseldorf
3 Reviews We did it as kids in the afternoon, adult-visitors do the same. The Ballet-school is in the big main-building of the Orangerie. The other door leads you to the public librairy if you want to warm up...
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Outside Stuttgart Stuttgart
16 Reviews We could see this big thing on top of a hill that looked like a castle or fortress. So we decided to drive up there. It's a big fortress with a beer garden inside. There are events there all the time....
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Meißen Dresden
9 Reviews This is a very nice place to come and visit, possibly during the off season to avoid all those pesky tourists gawking around and tour buses dropping off their flock. Many shops are around to buy...
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Burg Eltz Koblenz
1 Review Muenster-Maifeld is just a tiny detour on your way to Burg Eltz. It is a lovely little town of maybe 8000 inhabitants that has a lot of interesting half-timbered houses and a church that looks a bit...
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Castles Around Leipzig Leipzig
4 Reviews Just 45km east of Leipzig is the town of Torgau. Torgau is well known for its Elbe-Bridge on which Soviet and Allied troops met the first time in World War Two on April 25th, 1945. But the landmark...
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Wiesbaden Mainz
1 Review when you're in Mainz, don't forget to visit Wiesbaden, the capital of the state of Hessen, as well which lies just on the other side of the Rhine. In my opinion Wiesbaden is even much nicer than...
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River Spree, Wannsee and Havel Lakes Berlin
19 Reviews IMPORTANT: Berlin's Higher Administrative Court has ruled on April 3, 2009 that the FIRST PART of the walk (pic 1) IS PRIVATE. Residents will no longer grant the general public access to the lake! ...
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Locations in the Alps Munich
25 Reviews About a 2 hour drive south of Munich, in the heart of the Bavarian Alps, is the village of Ettal. The primary attraction is the monastery. While this monastery also brews beer and its famous...
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Main River Frankfurt am Main
4 Reviews Every Saturday from 8-14 is along the Main Riverside at "Museumsufer" Frankfurt's biggest flea market, where you can everything. It's very international flair from Turkey to Russia you find dealers...
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Outside Hamburg Hamburg
11 Reviews I have been obsessed with the sport of team handball for years. Most Americans have no idea what it is. It is NOT handball as most people know it (bouncing a ball against a wall). It is a very...
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My Main River tour begins (for the time being) here in Würzburg, a city in Franconia (Franken) which is 204 kilometers upstream from my home city of Frankfurt. Würzburg is also 243 kilometers upstream from Mainz, which is where the Main River ends because it flows into the Rhine.There are well-marked bicycle paths, mostly free of automobile traffic, all along the river, at least on one side but sometimes on both.
I have not been back to this place since I was here in the seventies.I'm talking about The area of Nuremburg where The Nazi's held their rallies. Nuremburg was supposed to be the new centre of Hitller's Reich and he built these awesome stadiums all designed by Albert Speer and his mates.When I discovered them back then,they were all overgrown and in ruins but still spectacular.At one end was an enormous complex into which I was able to enter throughan open doorway.Inside were the largest Theatres I had ever seen.It took me a while to figure out what this place was, as no-one wanted to talk about it at that time.I am pleased to say that now there is a memorial museum to those aweful times here and very well worth seeing from what I have been told by other friends. I will definitely go on my next trip to this wonderful old town. It is such a beautiful place that no-one should miss the...
The Treasury museum for the Cathedral in Aachen is considered to be one of the finest in Germany. The museum houses an extremely important collection of ecclesiastical art with relics from various periods of Christian history. Among the collection, highlights include the "Cross of Lothair", the "Bust of Charlemagne" and the "Persephone sarcophagus", the latter of which I found to be quite spellbinding. It costs 4 Euros to visit the treasury. It is opend from 10am to 6pm everyday but Mondays when it closes at 1pm and Thrusdays when it stays open until 9pm.
Here at Mainspitze the Main River comes in from the right, where the motorboat is, and joins the Rhine.The city of Mainz is over to the left, and the city of Wiesbaden is further up the Rhine on the right-hand side.The Mainspitze is well worth a slight detour while cycling, because of the great views and the very very fresh air.
In case the Main River should overflow its banks again, as it has done several times in recent decades, these floodgates in Wörth will be shut to keep the water from flooding the town.At least two other towns on the Main River are currently building such floodwalls and gates, namely Freudenstadt and Miltenberg.
In Erlenbach on the Main River there is a company call the Bavarian Shipbuilding Company (formerly Schellenberger) which has been building and repairing commercial river craft since 1652.The photo was taken from Wörth, on the other side of the river.
These trailer owners have set up two portable solar panels (on wheels) behind their trailer at a camping ground on the Main River near Laudenbach.This was the first time I have seen such a thing, so I had to take a picture of it, but maybe in a couple of years everybody will be doing it.
When I was cycling through I didn't even stop in Miltenberg this time, except to take a picture. But several years ago we had our annual staff outing in Miltenberg. We spent most of the day there walking around the town and up to the castle, and trying the local wines. In the late afternoon and evening we returned to Frankfurt by ship on the Main river.So if you are in the vicinity and want a nice day trip, I can recommend Miltenberg.
Somewhere along the Main River I came across this assemblage which looks at first glance like a Rube Goldberg machine. All sorts of tanks, towers and conveyer belts going up and down in all directions, some dripping with water, some not. All this apparatus looked pretty old, but there was a modern new green pumping station down by the river, so that at least explained where the water came from. Behind the towers some big piles of sand were piling up so I guess that was the point of the whole operation. Also there must have been some gravel piling up at the other end, because both sand and gravel were being loaded onto river barges a bit further downstream. This was near the town of Bürgstadt. Their website http://www.marktplatz-buergstadt.de/ lists dozens of local companies, but nothing resembling this one.If you don’t know who Rube Goldberg was, ask your great-grandparents or check this...
Here’s a typical scene along the Main Valley Cycling Route below Freudenberg, on the way to Miltenberg.You cross the border from Baden-Württemberg into Bavaria right about here, but I can’t say I noticed any difference.
Circus - The Hostel Berlin
7 Reviews and 710 Opinions Having previously stayed in the Central and Western Ku'Dam area I decided on my 3rd visit to stay in...
Kempinski Hotel Airport Munchen Munich
7 Reviews and 482 Opinions I stayed here one night when my flight was cancelled due to technical reasons. This hotel is a high...
Hotel Domstern Cologne
4 Reviews and 245 Opinions We stayed at the Hotel Domstern for two nights, based on online reviews. Always a bit hesitant when...
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