This past weekend we relaxed a bit with a trip to the countryside to visit a friend and his (relatively) recently acquired farm house (plus barn), about an hour outside of Hamburg on the way to Berlin. Since no trains stop there and since we have no car, we traveled by Mitfahrgelegenheit — basically a …
The last post in my series of photos from my trip to eastern Germany last weekend is dedicated to Görlitz, which charmed the socks off of me. The city is filled with gorgeous architecture (that wasn’t destroyed in World War II) and while I wandered around on Friday afternoon, the streets of the Old Town …
Before continuing on with photos from last weekend, let me take a second and wish my American readers a happy Independence Day! Hope you’re somewhere warm, bbq-ing, relaxing with friends and family, and watching beautiful fireworks. — Yesterday’s post featured photos from the village that I stayed in last weekend in eastern Germany, and today …
I spent last weekend exploring the easternmost edge of Germany on the Polish border, and was immediately enchanted with the history and the architecture of the area — with villages celebrating their 750th anniversary, homes dating back a few hundred years (the cellar of the house I stayed in dates back to 1776!), and various …