Trip: The World (Part II)
There are [389] stories from my trip: The World (Part II)
GERMANY | Thursday, 2 Jan 2014 | Views [2268]
Quedlinburg and Goslar are Teutonic treasures, quintessentially German. Surprisingly, neither was mentioned by Rick Steves in Rick Steves Germany , though both are World Heritage sites. Quedlinburg is in the former East Germany (we seem ... Read more >
GERMANY | Wednesday, 1 Jan 2014 | Views [587]
Martin Luther hardly started out to be a religious leader. He was on his way to becoming a lawyer. But when fearing for his life in a storm in 1505 he called upon St. Anne a la Burt Reynolds in The End. “If you save me I will ... Read more >
GERMANY | Tuesday, 31 Dec 2013 | Views [572]
It is a shame to spend a sunny morning struggling against bureacracy, especially Indian bureacracy, but there it is. The Indian visa process recently changed; all forms must be filled out online and submitted in person but the website is woefully ... Read more >
GERMANY | Sunday, 29 Dec 2013 | Views [2273]
During its peak the Hanseatic League included nearly 100 cities. Besides their mercantile interests, towns like Tallin, Riga, Lubeck and Wismar shared an interesting architectural style – interesting if you like unassuming, geometrically ... Read more >
GERMANY | Friday, 27 Dec 2013 | Views [540]
Loyal readers will recall the Hanseatic League from our time in Estonia and Latvia and Poland. It was a confederation of merchant cities in and around northern Germany that basically monopolized trade in the North and Baltic Seas from the 13 th ... Read more >
GERMANY | Friday, 27 Dec 2013 | Photo Gallery
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GERMANY | Thursday, 26 Dec 2013 | Views [1799]
Essen is Germany’s version of Pittsburgh. Coal processing plants provided fuel for the electrical plants and steel mills from before WW II until the 60s and darkened the skies for miles. That was then. Like PBH of today, the skies ... Read more >
GERMANY | Wednesday, 25 Dec 2013 | Views [686]
The scent of votive candles and incense perfumed the air as the organ pumped out something by Bach. The Christmas Evensong service had begun. Even if you aren't Catholic . . . even if you don't understand German . . . even if you don't speak ... Read more >
GERMANY | Monday, 23 Dec 2013 | Views [607]
Charlemagne is lucky. He is buried in the Aachen Cathedral and didn’t have the hassle of finding a place to park. Aachen sits in western Germany on the Dutch/Belgian/German border. Interminable holiday traffic and “Besetzen!”... Read more >
GERMANY | Sunday, 22 Dec 2013 | Views [567]
Rick Steves doesn’t think much of Heidelberg, Germany’s one time capital and home to the oldest university. It isn’t worth a single day, he says, in the typical three-week holiday in Germany. And if you have only three weeks, ... Read more >
GERMANY | Saturday, 21 Dec 2013 | Photo Gallery
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AUSTRIA | Friday, 20 Dec 2013 | Views [586]
Austria's Romantic Route runs along the Danube through terraced vineyards, connecting interesting looking medieval towns like beads on a necklace. This would be a wonderful route on a bicycle on a sunny day when the grapes are ripe. The Danube, ... Read more >
AUSTRIA | Thursday, 19 Dec 2013 | Views [504]
The Hapsburgs had a pretty good thing going for several hundred years. World War I put a very definite end to that but the grandeur of their reign lives on in and around Vienna. Vienna was a city worthy of an empire, still is, but today it ... Read more >
HUNGARY | Wednesday, 18 Dec 2013 | Views [550]
Baden is a cute Vienna suburb with big city attractions; an opera, symphony and a classy casino. Pension Amadeus has everything we need at a reasonable price. It is also conveniently near the Austria-Hungary border so it was easy for ... Read more >
AUSTRIA | Tuesday, 17 Dec 2013 | Views [582]
Even a stopped clock shows the correct time twice a day. The Glockenspiel Clock in Graz is five minutes slow, and is never right. That wouldn't happen in Germany! But we weren't in a hurry. We just wanted to see the carved wooden ... Read more >
AUSTRIA | Sunday, 15 Dec 2013 | Views [626]
Hotel rooms on the Austrian side were hard to come by on the weekend so we stayed at Hotel Big-Koch (no kidding) in Ainring on the German side of the border. It was only a short train ride from Salzburg on Saturday afternoon then a nice walk ... Read more >
AUSTRIA | Saturday, 14 Dec 2013 | Photo Gallery
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GERMANY | Saturday, 14 Dec 2013 | Views [581]
After a surprisingly comfortable night in the Oslo airport sleeping hobo-style on a restaurant banquet, we continued on to Munich. Our hotel was conveniently near the Bahnhof, giving us the option of walking or taking public transportation around ... Read more >
NORWAY | Sunday, 8 Dec 2013 | Views [629]
Tromsø doesn’t look much different at 9 AM than it did at midnight. It is still dark outside, the stars are shining and nearly every light in town is turned on. We are in Norway, about 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle and ... Read more >
NORWAY | Thursday, 5 Dec 2013 | Photo Gallery
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