A Travel Blog
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that when you travel overseas you’ll come across a public holiday or two. If you’re not prepared, you can find your plans derailed with sights and/or shops closed, public transport schedules changed, places crowded. The positive thing though is that such days often provide an opportunity to learn something deeper … Read more
When we were planning our route back to Dusseldorf from where we were to fly home, we decided to stage through Mainz for one main reason, the Rhine – and so we took a ferry up the Rhine on the second last day of our holiday. We could have gone all the way to Bonn, where we were … Read more
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
When we booked our trip from Berlin to Mainz back before we started the trip, we decided to give ourselves a 6-hour layover in Leipzig. We’re glad we did, because it’s an interesting town and it fleshes out a little more our East German experience. Goethe studied law here, for example, and Schiller apparently worked … 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