After finally gathering enough points on the Deutsche Bahn, I earned myself a free round-trip train ride anywhere within Germany. Naturally, I decided to explore somewhere brand new and Dresden was at the top of my list. After booking everything, we discovered that our trip coincided with the 66th anniversary of the controversial Allied air …
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 …