Sausage! The Curry Wurst Museum in Berlin
You might think it weird for us as vegetarians to visit the „Curry Wurst Museum“ – a Berlin museum that …
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Masters of Design – a visit to the Bauhaus buildings in Dessau
Clear lines, abstract formality, total functionality: Bauhaus is the quintessential German design school. Of several locations of the Bauhaus school, …
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Aachen Cathedral – Splendour of Charlemagne (UNESCO WHS)
On Christmas Day in the year 800 AD, Charlemagne was crowned Emperor of the Romans by Pope Leo III in …
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Industrial culture at the Zollverein Coal Mine in Essen
Essen is a city in the middle of the “Ruhrgebiet”, Germany’s traditional centre of mining and heavy industry. But today …
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Along the Berlin Wall Cycling Trail – 160 km around Berlin
Pieces of the Berlin Wall are a mere tourist attraction nowadays. You have to seek them out in the city …
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Carolingian Corvey – a German UNESCO World Heritage site
The newly designated UNESCO World Heritage monastery of Carolingian Corvey lies in the middle of nowhere near the small town …
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Sniffing wood in the ancient beech forest of Serrahn
At a minute to ten we are ready to start for the guided walk through the UNESCO-listed ancient beech forest …
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A winter visit to Wittenberg – Luther without heating
In a cold and drab Berlin winter, we find that we need to get out for a weekend. We decide …
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The Elbe Cycle Path (part 3) – from Magdeburg to the North Sea
After cycling from Prague to Magdeburg last year we continue on the Elbe Cycle Path towards the North Sea. Again, …
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The Amarna exhibition in Berlin invites the blind to see Nefertiti
A hundred years after the discovery of the famous Nefertiti bust, the Berlin Egyptological Museum is showing off finds from …
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