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Checkpoint Charlie   Berlin

Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin

 187 Reviews  BERLIN ..I , like most who visit Berlin took a visit to Check point Charlie!!. I know it's the real touristy thing to do but I was very interested to see this site from the military point of view..... 

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Dachau (Concentration Camp)   Munich

Dachau (Concentration Camp), Munich

 80 Reviews  "... so ich nicht nach Dachau komm." (Dear God, make me mute, so I don't get sent to Dachau). So went a common child's prayer during Nazi times. You dared not say anything remotely controversial,... 

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Römer   Frankfurt am Main

Römer, Frankfurt am Main

 77 Reviews  The building is really eye catching. It consist 3 buildings and the middle one is called Zum Romer meaning “At the Romans”. People say it was called like this because there were many Roman villages... 

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Reeperbahn/St. Pauli   Hamburg

Reeperbahn/St. Pauli, Hamburg

 42 Reviews  St. Pauli is a traditionally working-class district of Hamburg, near the harbor. It includes the red-light district around the Reeperbahn as well as numerous bars and music clubs. Second and third... 

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Old Town/Altstadt   Düsseldorf

Old Town/Altstadt, Düsseldorf

 67 Reviews  This beautiful Medieval church in the old town, built in 1288 is the oldest building in the city - the slightly twisted steeple was an accident caused by builders using damp timbers! Unfortunately I... 

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Cologne Cathedral/ Kölner Dom   Cologne

Cologne Cathedral/ Kölner Dom, Cologne

 246 Reviews  Since the 10th century The cathedral of cologne has been home to many treasures; stored safely in their treasury. These were purpose built rooms, but not open to the public. The first public display... 

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Mercedes   Stuttgart

Mercedes, Stuttgart

 26 Reviews  In 2006 we visited the Mercedes Benz Musea at Stuttgard.... I must say its a really good Museum because you see how everything had changed during the time that has passed... even when you are not... 

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Castle   Nürnberg

Castle, Nürnberg

 38 Reviews  The majestic Nuremberg castle, the Kaiserburg, is considered Nuremburg's main sight. Indeed it does create a marvelous, medieval atmosphere to the Old Town of Nuremberg, which is almost completely... 

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Zwinger   Dresden

Zwinger, Dresden

 99 Reviews  This is a fantastic display of military armor and weapons. The collection of display totals 1,320 pieces and a lot were donated by European and Oriental rulers. A standout is the gold scrolled armour... 

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Castle/Schloss   Heidelberg

Castle/Schloss, Heidelberg

 196 Reviews  I decided not to take the funicular up to the castle, but to walk instead, and I think it was a good decision. The walk was not too strenuous to me and I liked the views I got during it. It was also... 

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Marktplatz   Karlsruhe

Marktplatz, Karlsruhe

 22 Reviews  Marktplatz is the central square of the city, so it's truly unlikely that you'll miss it. It features a Pyramid that has become a symbol of the city. There is also the city's Rathaus (picture) and the... 

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Old Town   Hannover

Old Town, Hannover

 52 Reviews  Hannover has one of the biggest and oldest Fleamarkets in Germany! Every Saturday people come from all over Germany to sell and buy. The market starts at 6:00 am and finishes at 4:00 pm. After... 

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Beautiful Old Town   Koblenz

Beautiful Old Town, Koblenz

 63 Reviews  With the growth of cheap low-cost flights, more and more people have discovered the delights of german Christmas markets. The one in Koblenz has all the normal ingredients of a 100 or so wodden... 

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Architecture / Historical Sites   Leipzig

Architecture / Historical Sites, Leipzig

 20 Reviews   Leutzsch is one of the oldest parts of Leipzig. It was founded in 11 century by Sorbs under the name Luszh (means Place of Meadows and Swamps). In 19th century Leutzsch transformed from a little... 

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Rhine River   Mainz

Rhine River, Mainz

 16 Reviews   Imagine you are on a cruise headed down the Rhein River near Mainz – the part of the river in Germany that is UNESCO designated as a natural wonder. As you look from your ship upwards on both sides... 

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Reichstag   Berlin

Reichstag, Berlin

 213 Reviews   Since our last visit to Berlin the Reichstag building had acquired its glistening new dome, the work of Norman Foster. As an admirer of his work, and a fan of “new meets old” architecture, I was keen... 

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Marienplatz   Munich

Marienplatz, Munich

 148 Reviews   This is the centre of the Old Town of Munich, a very lively square. The centre of it is the Mariensäule, a column that was erected in 1638. The Town Hall is an abundance of New Gothic style. It was... 

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Churches   Frankfurt am Main

Churches, Frankfurt am Main

 72 Reviews  Built initially as a gothic cathedral between XIV and XV centuries, it was rebuilt few times after that and this is why the look is now a neo-gothic one. It is anyway impressive and probably the 95 m... 

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Port (Hafen)   Hamburg

Port (Hafen), Hamburg

 95 Reviews  For years various residents’ groups in St. Pauli have been resisting gentrification and huge building projects in their neighborhood. Starting in 1994, the Hafenrandverein (Harbour Edge Association)... 

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Rheinturm   Düsseldorf

Rheinturm, Düsseldorf

 41 Reviews  This is the telecommunication tower of Dusseldorf. It is 240m tall and 20 years old. I know that you can climb on the top but unfortunately I didn’t do it. They say the view is great. Also the tower... 

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Old Town   Cologne

Old Town, Cologne

 43 Reviews  I just loved walking around Old Town Cologne; it's just so beautiful! There are so many colorful buildings, plazas and little streets to wander around and I would keep finding one area or building... 

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Events   Stuttgart

Events, Stuttgart

 34 Reviews  Stuttgart is a city of wine the vineyards almost reach the central station, and every year in August the annual Weindorf is takes place for about ten days. The whole Marktplatz and Schillerplatz are... 

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Lorenzkirche - St Lorenz Church   Nürnberg

Lorenzkirche - St Lorenz Church, Nürnberg

 31 Reviews   In Lorenzer Platz stands the twin-towered Gothic church of St Lawrence (St-Lorenzkirche; 13th-15th c.; Protestant), the city's largest church. Above the beautiful west doorway (c. 1355) is a rose... 

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Semper Opera   Dresden

Semper Opera, Dresden

 56 Reviews  Named after the architect, Semper, the building was constructed in 1841, but destroyed by fire in 1869, and his son rebuilt it again to finish in 1878. There were all the famous opera starts like... 

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Old Bridge   Heidelberg

Old Bridge, Heidelberg

 41 Reviews  All great romantic cities have a river: Prague has the Vltava, Paris has the Seine, Florence the Arno, and Heidelberg the Neckar river. "Die Alte Bruecke" (=the old bridge) is named after Kurfuerst... 

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Speyer / Spire

by Fabriano

Spire was central to the Holy German Empire. Indeed, its "Dom" hosts the graves of German Emperors (it's called a necropole). Emperor Conrad ok'd its building around 1030.What's more, many Emperors were elected here.That's why I was so eager to see Spire as the German customs officer gave me my passport back.As a French citizen, the only thing I can think of before getting here is Saint-Denis. The kings that oppressed the French people were crowned in Reims, ruled in Paris and Versailles, got buried in St-Denis, close to Paris. Everything was already centered around Paris. In Germany, things happened differently.The Holy German Empire was kinda unidentified political object. It had no capital, so the newly elected Emperor rode around in the whole Empire to get recognized by his subjects : it was a polycentric state. Aix la Chapelle, Carl the Great's capital, was a moral capital, but in...

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Gotha

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I arrived in Gotha on a sunny day. Walk from the station and you'll find the castle ; I had the sudden feeling to have become a character of Kafka's the Castle, because this castle located on the edge of a slope dominates the town and seems to crush it, as in the novel. Perhaps Kafka went here once and drew inspiration from this place ?Gotha also evokes an historical event, the foundation of Germany's Socialist Party SPD in 1875. Karl Marx wrote a Critic of the Program of Gotha. The tourist office employee showed me the place of that meeting.After 1875 Bismarck responded to the SPD's growing influence by a carrot-and-stick tactics. He forbade the SPD by the famous 1878 "Socialist Laws" ; and he founded a kind of Welfare State protecting the workers against the uncertainties of life.To know more about this history you should consider reading Bebel's My Life. A craftsman, Bebel soon joined...

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Tank Museum Munster (29633)

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I took my father to this museum in munster in lower saxonyhttp://www.munster.de/pzm/content/kontakt/english.htmI found it to be very interesting and a good day out.For those interested in contained exhibits from the first world war, second world war through to the cold war era. There are also a couple of exhibits kids+adults can climb into.Easy to park a motorhome (like we did), good clean cafe and facilities and a good day out

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In Francfort's Sachsenhausen district

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In the youth hostel I met a guy from the UK who had just met a guy from South Korea who had just met a girl from South Africa and we went out and met a guy from the United States.We spent the evening together and honestly, the beer was undrinkable, but they didn't have any Duvel beer and I had to fall back on a local beer I didn't like.It was so fun, but the beer gave me a headache.

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Mainhattan

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Mayence is the birth town of Gutenberg, but tough luck, I didn't have the time to visit the Gutenberg Museum. I just changed trains here and took the S-Bahn to Francfort. In the S-Bahn I heared a guy speaking French with his cell. I discussed with him, he's from Cameroon and studies computer science at University.I got off the train at Francfort Hbf and began walking to the hostel.What does "Hbf" mean ? Well, it's an abrevation for Hauptbanhof or Main Station. Germany's railroad network is organized according an hourly-cadenced schedule, meaning there's one train every hour everywhere. Trains stop very often, slowing speeds but allowing many transfers, with regional or commuter or other main line trains.The notion of "transfer" ("Umsteig" in German or "correspondance" in French) is central, hence the importance of these "node-stations". France's network is more like an airline system ;...

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The Rhine at Worms

by Fabriano

Next I went to Worms, the town where Luther stood up for his ideas, challenging Emperor Carl the Fifth's power in 1520.The episode of the Diet of Worms has remained famous ever since, as famous as Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Adress in US History, the Assault on the Bastille fortress in France or Garibaldi's landing in Sicily in Italy, the 1830 uprising against the Dutch occupation in Belgium, etc... (just take any famous episode from your homeland's history, see what I mean ?).I first enjoyed the Romanic Church with its baroque altarpiece. Afterwards I had a walk to the Rhine.It flows about 500 m / 600 yards away from the center of the town. I like large rivers. The flowing water is a picture of time going by.I grew up in a town located on the Loire, France's longest river (I should say : France's ONLY long river).It was cute : I sometimes went to the shore of the river and just watched...

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Trier / Trèves

by Fabriano

The main interest about Trier / Treves is that all the periods of history are reviewed : Roman Empire, Middle-Ages, Baroque, Marxist. Indeed, there's the Porta Nigra, the Catholic churches, the Palace of the princes in Baroque style, and the birth house of Marx.The most beautiful thing is the amphitheatre, kind of half way between the town and the country. Just next I visited the Roman Therms where people had a bath, twenty centuries before Louis Pasteur's hygien-based ideology...Visiting the house of Karl Marx turned out to be very interesting. It's so strange to think the "devil" was born here to an affluent Jewish background. His father was a lawyer and you see it's rather a bourgeois house. Thus Marx got very learned but in his youth he first was interested in Philosophy rather than in Economics or Politics. This changed very soon...The exposition also tells the fate of his ideas...

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Journey to Fulda

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I now had to leave Francfort. I took the ICE (Inter City Express), Germany's high speed train, at the Hauptbahnhof. Once on the train, I noticed we were tilting. In fact I'd just gotten on an ICE-T, a tilting version of the ICE. It means u slightly bend in the curves, in the sense of the curve, in order to gain speed.ICE trains are very comfortable ; the trouble with it is it's very expensive. It hurts your credit card. If you have a long stay in Germany, you should consider buying a Bahncard. You pay for your ticket 25 or 50 % off for just 50 or 200 € in one year.DB staff is very competent.Running from Francfort to Eastern Hesse, you cross a green hilly region. It's very beautiful. But "green region" often implies "rainy region". And when I got off the ICE at Fulda, it WAS raining.My project was : 1/ to spend the afternoon in Fulda ; 2/ to sleep in Eisenach, Bach's native town (to be...

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Things are expensive, Postcards inexpensive

by SLLiew

Trying to find the budget to buy souvenir for all the relatives and friends but not enough Euros.Postcards are cheap substitutes but it is the thought that counts, right? Ja.Postal rate for postcard to Malaysia: Euro 0.45

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Xanten - Roman Archaeological Park

by MichaelFalk1969

Xanten (Rhineland) has been a roman border town in antiquity, and some buildings of the settlement have been (partly) reconstructed in an archaeological park, featuring villas, temples, and even a small roman arena, giving you a vivid impression on what life was like at the frontier of the Roman Empire and "Germania". Be aware that most buildings are only partly rebuilt to give an impression what they looked like; sometimes you just see foundations. Xanten itself has some nice Old Town - buildings and is worth a detour.

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