A Travel Blog
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
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
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
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
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