Category: German Tourism
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Berlin Bound: A Final Glimpse of the Ishtar Gate Before Renovations
You know those trips when you head to a city for one thing, and one thing only? Yeah, this was that type of trip. I’m sure Berlin is a wonderful city, but William and I only had eyes for the Pergamon Museum which closed after our visit to do renovations for 14 years. Darling told us…
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Traversing Cologne
Rick Steves says you could do Cologne in a day, and he isn’t wrong. While we originally planned for two days, I got very sick with a bad cold, so we decided to leave almost 10 hours early. We missed nothing. Taking the train from Kaiserslautern to Cologne, we arrived around 11:30 AM. We started…
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Our Second Day in Munich
We stayed overnight at a local hotel which was only a 10-minute walk to Old Town. So we slept in till 9 AM before hitting the ground running. We grabbed breakfast at a coffee store, a chain but not Starbucks, before heading straight to the Residenz building. Originally the home of the house of Wittelsbach,…
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Our First Day in Munich
Thanks to William’s work schedule, he can take three-day weekends occasionally. This past weekend, we decided to take advantage of this by visiting Munich in Bavaria. We left Thursday night and drove to a cute little hotel near the Munich City Center. We decided to do a self-guided walking tour around the city center on…
The Wandering Mcs 