Discovering the beautiful European countries and their people
Hameln, DE On the way back to our hotel after visiting the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, we stopped in the town of Celle to find a nice place to have dinner for Sean’s birthday. Celle is another town known for its half-timbered houses and it contains over 400 of them. The […]
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Harz Mountains of Germany Part II In the last blog post, you saw that we visited a few towns in the Harz Mountains region of Germany and that I wrote quite a bit about our stop in Quedlinburg, whose old town is part of a UNESCO site. The town of […]
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If you were living in Europe and were asked where you wanted to go for your birthday weekend, which destination would you choose? Paris? Vienna, maybe? Or London? Prague? Well if you were my husband you would choose to go see the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Of course I was interested […]
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Kassel, DE Kassel, Germany had been on my list of places to visit because there is a UNESCO site there called Berpark Wilhelmshöhe. Once I started researching the area, though, I realized there was a lot more to it than the UNESCO site. We started off our weekend in Kassel […]
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While my parents were here visiting over the summer we took them to the town of Eltville am Rhein or Eltville for short. “Am Rhein” means “on the Rhine” and it was a beautiful day to walk along the river and through the town when we visited. We made the […]
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Late-night television talk show host David Letterman once famously described “carpet” as the word that lies like a rug, because it is neither a car nor a pet. I can’t remember what I had for lunch today, but I can remember that joke from years ago and I think of […]
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The biggest funfair on the Rhine, called the Rheinkirmes in German, takes places every July in Düsseldorf. We had wanted to go to Düsseldorf anyway, so we used the excuse of the funfair. (As a side note, I had never heard the term “funfair” before moving to Europe. Where I’m […]
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The last full day of our long weekend in northern Germany started off with a drive to Wismar. Like Stralsund LINK and Lübeck LINK, the two other cities we’d visited over the weekend, Wismar is known for its Brick Gothic architecture. Along with Stralsund, Wismar makes up one half of […]
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No, the title of this post is not a grammatical error. A shoe last is an actual thing that you will found out more about in a minute. After our visit to Hildesheim, LINK http://travelsandtipplescom.ipage.com/reconstructed-city-center-hildesheim/ we made a stop before heading home. That stop was a visit to the Fagus […]
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Hildesheim is a city in Northern Germany that is home to a UNESCO site called St. Mary’s Cathedral and St. Michael’s Church. I’m not quite sure why UNESCO lumps sites together like that as they are several blocks apart. In any case, we visited both St. Mary’s and St. Michael’s […]
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