Parr Planet – Travels with Stephen & Kathleen
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Wow! What an amazing city. It is so Western that you feel about as at home as you will anywhere in the world, yet so grand and European that it impresses on a whole different level. It is, as you can imagine, a very large city, but you feel like you can get around very …
Dresden, Germany August 18 and 19, 2013 Dresden has come a long, long, way since it was almost entirely destroyed in the war. This once glorious city has restored what one can only imagine is a great deal of the historical splendor. Ornate palaces, cathedrals and opera houses dominate the old part of the city …
Munich – August 16th and 17th, 2013 Munich is the Bavarian capital and main tourist stop-over in this part of Germany. It is bustling with life and beer gardens and pedestrian streets abound. It has a great little tram system to get you to various areas of town. We spent a whole day walking, exploring, …
Garmish-Partenkirchen August 14th and 15th, 2013. Yes, the name of this town really is Garmish-Partenkirchen. If you have been reading my Germany blogs already, you have probably guessed that there is a river here and the town on one side is called Garmish, while the other bank is Partenkirchen. Whew! What a mouthful! But an …
Lindau – August 13th, 2013 Lindau is on Lake Konstanz, the largest lake in Germany and a summer resort area. One of its main attractions is the town of Lindau. The history of this lake-side town goes back to the first century, A.D., when a Roman Settlement was built here. These days it is a …
Freiburg, Germany, August 11 &12, 2013 Another fine German town with a beautiful Aldstat (old town center), the piece de resistance of Freiburg is the Dom or Cathedral. It is a massive structure and probably Germany’s most impressive gothic cathedral. Unfortunately, the bell tower was scaffolded during our visit so we could neither obtain perfect …
Heidelburg, Germany, August 10, 2013 We had just one night in Heidelburg, but what a fine night it was. We arrived on a Saturday in the midst of celebrations marking the 400th anniversary of the marriage between the German prince Frederick and Mary Stuart of England. They actually were married on February 14th, but this …
Bernkastle-Kues, August 3 – 9, 2013 A small town on the Mosel River seemed like the perfect place to regroup for a week after travelling pretty furiously since leaving Bergen. Wow! What a great choice. The hypenated towns actually represent the towns on either bank of the river, which for some reason always seem to …
Hannoversch Munden, Germany, August 2, 2013 Although hard to pronounce and remember the name, we won’t quickly forget this very quaint, very Bavarian-looking (although actually still North of Bavaria) little village, full of genuine timbered houses (this is what they seem to call tudorian) many hundreds of years old and all in different astonishing-looking states …
Hamburg, Germany – August 1, 2013 I bet you didn’t know that Hamburg is Germany’s second largest city after Berlin….we didn’t either but were interested to learn about it and experience this budding metropolis for the first time. This is another city where there is a healthy dose of both the old and the new …