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I Smell a Rat!
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 […]
It’s Mines, All Mines!
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 […]
Bergen-Belsen Memorial, Lower Saxony, DE
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 […]
A Castle in Kassel
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 […]
Days of Wine & Roses: Eltville, DE
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 […]
Brussels: The Word That Lies Like a Rug
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 […]
The Biggest Funfair on the Rhine Dusseldorf, DE
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 […]
Wismar, DE
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 […]
The Fagus Factory, Alfeld, DE
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/ […]