A Travel Blog
It was another cold day when we set out to explore Mainz. It turned into a lovely sunny day after lunch, and suddenly the outdoor cafes were full, but the morning was something else. We walked through lovely old streets and squares, including Münsterplatz and Schillerstrasse, complete with his statue. Almost every town we’ve been … Read more
We dedicated our last full day in Berlin to its museums. You’ll be sorry to hear that we ran out of time and will not be able to report on the Currywurst Museum! Seriously, there is one – Berlin has a museum for pretty well everything – but, funnily, it wasn’t on our schedule. What … Read more
For our daytrip out of Berlin, the logical thing would have been Potsdam, but we decided to go in a different direction, to the twin towns on the Oder/Odra River, Frankfurt an der Oder (59,000 people) in Germany and Słubice (17,000 people) in Poland. We left first thing as it was going to take three … Read more
When we have a few days in a place we like to do a daytrip, like Toledo from Madrid and Arles from Avignon – and we did so from Weimar. Not that Weimar couldn’t occupy our full three days and more, but we like checking out the neighbourhood! We chose Monday because that seems to … Read more
While we kept our plans fairly loose for this Len’s-trip-down-memory-lane part of our holiday, we did want to get to the Bodensee (or, Lake Constance). Unfortunately our few days in Swabia coincided with a cold, damp spell. Thursday’s forecast was the best at 16°C albeit still with morning rain, so it was to be Bodensee … Read more