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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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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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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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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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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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a great place for all fans of vintage-cars

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In the Black Forest, close to Hinterzarten and Freiburg im Breisgau you will find one of the best specialists for the restoring of vintage cars of all types : British Classic Cars in D-79286 Glottertal - Talstraße 14I have been there several times, admiring these wonderful cars, that are unfortunately totally out of my financial range. To a certain extent you may take a look at these cars, when you are lucky to find a nice soul letting you into the big hall. A few cars are also standing outside of the Garage, but those are sometimes in poor condition and waiting for their time to be restored.In any case, for car-enthousiasts there is also one of the best collections of rare vintage-cars close to Freiburg, just a few km over the border in France : The Schlumpf-Collection in Muhouse/FranceDriving there by car is just a bit more than 1 hour from Freiburg im Breisgau: The world's largest...

Blankenese - the most exclusive suburb of Hamburg

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Blankenese is a small village in the outskirts of Hamburg, in the west of the port and along the river Elbe and it is mainly well known for lovely villas facing the river Elbe. Rich and wealthy people built their regular residence or summerhouses there. All of the houses there seem to be noble villas, take a look at my main photograph : Thats the Kindergarten of Blankenese !----------------------------------You can get to Blanenese easily by S-Bahn S1 and walk downhill from the train-station to the river Elbe, where you will see the most beautiful villas along your way downhill.

Soviet submarine U-434 as a museum in Hamburg

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The Soviet spy-submarine U-434 as a museum is one of the modern attractions in the port of Hamburg : this submarine is one of the largest non-atomic-submarines in the world and you will be able to enter it like a museum and take a look at all details !In times of the cold war it was impossible to even see such submarines from a big distance, nowadays they are sold to the former enemies...You will find this submarine at Versmannstrasse 23CHafencity, Baakenhafen - get out at Metro-station Messhafen and walk another 15 minutes...The submarine is open for visitors at the following times :April 1st-October 3rd: Mon-10.00a.m.-06.00p.m.and from Friday till Sunday 09.00a.m.-07.00p.m.Oct. 4th-march 31st: daily 10.00a.m.-06.00p.m.entrance-fee is 8 euros (7,- for holders of hamburg-card)

Bergedorfer Schloss in Hamburg

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Bergedorf is a small town in the westend and within the city-limits of Hamburg and it has a lot of beautiful half-timbered buildings including a very famous half-timbered church and a lovely water-castle : Bergedorfer Schloss that is used as a museum today. The interior of the museum is really worth a visit for some great furniture and old decorations - see some parts of it in my 3rd and 4th photograps !.Something special in Bergedorfer Schloss is an old confectionary dating back to the middle of the 19th century, it is fully equipped with lovely furniture and may be even rented for private festivities (my last pic).----------------------------------------------Go to Bergedorf by S2 or the regional-train R20. Both S-Bahn-trains are leaving at Hamburg Hauptbahnhof. Bergedorf is still inside the tarif of section A+B, that is included in the day-tickets of the HVV and the Hamburg-card !

Bergedorfer Kirche, a windmill & more

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The old city centre of Bergedorf in the western part of Hamburg is worth seeing because of plenty of old halftimbered houses but the most beautiful is without doubt the beautiful half-timbered church, that you will see in my main photograph ! Unfortunately the church is not open to the public, but it looks great already from outside. Opposite of the church you will see an old inn (my 3rd picture), also with a beautiful and ornate facade. A bit outside of the city-centre of Bergedorf there is also an old wind-mill, it is privately owned and you can see just its outside from the fence, where I took my photo (my 4th photograph)----------------------------------------------You may get easily to Bergedorf by S2 or the regional-train R20. Both are leaving at Hamburg Hauptbahnhof. Bergedorf is still inside the tarif of section A+B, that is included in the day-tickets of the HVV and the...

The world's largest Coo-Coo-Clock is in Breitnau

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The largest Coo-Coo-clock in the world is to be seen in Breitnau in the Black Forest / Schwarzwald, at least that is what I read about it, although other places also keep telling us the same for their giant clocks...In any case that clock is as big as an ordinary house and it includes even the man and woman in the traditional costumes on 1st floor that will show up, when it is sunny and will disappear, when it is raining. Inside of that building you will at least find a large souvenir-shop, frequented by hundreds of bus-tourists every day in summer and winter because of the convenient parking there, the many toilets etc.This giant coo-coo-clock is next to the large car-parking of Hofgut Sternen in Breitnau, about 15 km east of Freiburg im Breisgau.

Goethehaus & more in Breitnau/Schwarzwald

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Breitnau im Schwarzwald is an interesting place of history : 1) Hofgut Sternen in Breitnau ( about 15 km east of Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a place of history, because it was one of the places, where Marie Antoinette (the austrian princess and youngest daughter of empress Maria Theresia) had a rest and spent the night on her way to Paris, where she was supposed to meet her future husband, the 15 years old Ludwig - the later king Ludwig XVI. Marie Antoinette herself was just 14 years old at that time.On top of the entrance to the hotel you may still see a painting commemorizing that special event and so you may get an idea, what such a royal carriage looked like.2) Directely opposite of Hofgut Sternen in Breitnau you will still see the house, where Johann Wolfgang von Goethe spent the night in september 29th, 1779 and nowadays it is still used as depandance of the hotel, so you can rent a...

great farmhouses in Hinterzarten

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Hinterzarten in the Black Forrest is a great place to see some interesting remains of the old, traditional Schwarzwald Farmhouses :The old Saw mill of Jockelehof is one of them, but most of the tourists will never find it, except they find it accidentally : It is at the very end of Winterhaldenweg, a street that is a one-way through the wide landscape, it starts at the trainstation of Hinterzarten and the last 3 km - the most interesting part - is for "Nur für Anlieger" (Anlieger is defined as someone, who is searching for something, BUT not as someone, who wants to have a shorter road to Titisee). A tourist searching for that old architecture would be allowed to drive there !There is an artificial lake next to the mill in order to store the water that was needed to drive the mill. You may see the outside of that mill and may walk around the building freely and without restrictions.

Heaven and hell are close to e.o. in Black Forrest

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Hoellental (hell-valley) is the name of the narrow and quite rough valley, where in ancient times all of the transports had to go through, when they wanted to go from Titisee/Neustadt to Freiburg im Breisgau. At the end of that hell-valley they called a small village : Himmelreich (heaven), certainly because all of the troubles were over in that flat landscape there.Even nowadays, when you have taken the steep road through the Höllental with plenty of heavy trucks in front of you, with icy bends in wintertime etc. you might be happy to be back on ordinary roads again.The village of Himmelreich itself has NO places of interest for the ordinary tourist, except maybe the funny name of the village printed out at the signpost in the train-station.It is really just a pity, that the station looks more like a Sprayer's heaven nowadays !b.t.w. take a look at my last picture : The village itself...

Schulau - The Willkomm-Hoeft of Hamburg

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Schulau is an interesting place for all fans of cruiseships and when-ever extra-large cruiseships are arriving at or leaving Hamburg, thousands of people will go there to see the ships from a short distance. Schulau is a small village in the west of Hamburg and plenty of years ago a restaurant had started a service to greet all of the ships,passing by.Willkomm-Hoeft is a great restaurant with an excellent view on all of the ships passing by and at its ship-station it will show the flags and play the national anthem of the home-port of the ships passing by and they will also announce a message of welcome or fare-well in german and in the language of the ship-registry. Of course plenty of local people will be there, when the biggest cruise-ship in the world is leaving Hamburg ! On my pics : M/S Freedom of the Seas, the biggest cruiseship in the world in july 2006. In my last picture : M/S...

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a great place for all fans of vintage-cars

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