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Insider guide to Munich. Immerse yourself in Bavaria’s beautiful capital

16/01/2019 by .
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Stuart Forster reveals his insider guide to Munich. An essential companion to see the best sightts.

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Insider guide to Frankfurt

01/10/2018 by .
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Frankfurt is where a New York Skyscraper Skyline meets reassuring Germanic reliability. Germany’s fifth city is rapidly becoming an attractive weekend break.

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Northern Germany by bike

15/07/2018 by .
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Rupert Parker explores the three north German cities of Lübeck, Lüneberg and Hamburg on two wheels 

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Visiting Gotha

05/09/2016 by .
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Stuart Forster takes a look at some of the reasons to make visiting Gotha in the east German state of Thuringia very worthwhile.

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Brilliant Guide to the carnivals of Frankfurt Rhein-Main

10/02/2015 by .
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it is carnival season again, and this year TripReporter offers up a Guide to the carnivals of Frankfurt Rhein-Main a German region comprising one of the biggest collections of carnivals in Europe.

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Night Train to Berlin

27/11/2014 by .
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On a rainy night in February, I was waiting in Paris’s Gare de L’Est station for the night train to Berlin. Those last four words are loaded with romance. And I was taking this winter journey in search of the romance of rail travel in a European winter.

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Bavaria In the Footsteps of Hitler

18/08/2014 by .
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Bavaria In the footsteps of Hitler. The music coming from behind the closed door of room 105 up on the second floor was not unexpected given this was the Munich University School of Music and Performing Arts. A building of some majesty it has to be said; marble pillars, two grand marble staircases and art deco balconies everywhere you look. However, this particular building hides a very dark past. In 1938, it was better known as The Führerbau or Leaders House and behind door 105, Adolf Hitler sat in his personal office. The very place where British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Hitler and Mussolini signed the Munich Agreement,  an act which ultimately led to WW2.

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On the trail of Richard Strauss in Germany

26/03/2014 by .
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This is the view from composer Richard Strauss’s house in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Is it any wonder that he wrote the “Alpine Symphony”?

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Cologne Christmas Markets. Markets and Magi.

19/10/2013 by .
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Perhaps it was the gluhwein kicking in, or my extra portion of bratwurst. Whatever it was, I found myself getting rather disoriented.at the Cologne Christmas Markets.

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The Rhine Valley. Or should it be the Vine Valley?

30/07/2013This entry was posted in Europe and Middle East, Frankfurt Main, Germany and tagged , , on by .
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Marcos and Marco are father and son. They also happen to own a castle. Not just any old castle you understand, but a real, solid, medieval one, sitting up on the banks of  the mighty Rhine valley just up river from Rudesheim.

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