A Travel Blog
It was a cold start, but our second full day in Berlin turned out to be pretty nice over all, with the odd cold patch interspersed with sun. It was another day of exploring the city, though this time we did enter some museums. Reichstag Our day started early as we’d booked to visit the … Read more
Now here’s the thing. When we planned our Weimar days, we looked to see what was closed on Mondays knowing that Monday is often museum-closed day in Germany, and made sure we went to those on Sunday. So, for example, Goethe National Museum was closed on Monday but open Sunday, while Goethe’s Gartenhaus in Park … Read more
We mentioned in our first Weimar post that the city has been called the spiritual capital of German culture. Here are some reasons why: JS Bach (1685-1750) lived here twice, in 1703 and then 1708-1717, though the house he lived in no longer survives. His son CPE Bach was born here. Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) lived … 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
It’s been hard for Sue not to think about Michelle de Kretser‘s Questions of travel as we’ve been traveling around. And this, our first full day in Biberach, brought de Kretser to mind and the character Laura. There’s a funny scene in India where she is asked where she’s going next and, after naming a … Read more