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A brilliant family campervan roundtrip from England to Croatia

27/01/2020 by .
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TripReporter’s regular testing family, Carole and Jason and their young boys Evan and Andy went on an exciting campervan roundtrip from England to Croatia with their VW campervan through ten countries, 2,920 miles and nine campsites.

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Celebrating the Bauhaus in Berlin

12/08/2019 by .
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The Bauhaus was one of the 20th century’s most influential schools of art, design and architecture. As part of celebrations to commemorate the centenary of the school’s foundation, in Weimar during 1919, Germany’s capital is hosting the Bauhaus Week Berlin from 31 August to 8 September.

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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 .
Guide to the carnivals of Frankfurt Rhein-Main

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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The Night Train to Berlin. Loaded with romance

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.

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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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