Germany
Insider guide to Munich. Immerse yourself in Bavaria’s beautiful capital
16/01/2019 .Insider guide to Frankfurt
01/10/2018 .Frankfurt is where a New York Skyscraper Skyline meets reassuring Germanic reliability. Germany’s fifth city is rapidly becoming an attractive weekend break.
Read the full story hereNorthern Germany by bike
15/07/2018 .Rupert Parker explores the three north German cities of Lübeck, Lüneberg and Hamburg on two wheels
Read the full story hereVisiting Gotha
05/09/2016 .Stuart Forster takes a look at some of the reasons to make visiting Gotha in the east German state of Thuringia very worthwhile.
Read the full story hereBrilliant Guide to the carnivals of Frankfurt Rhein-Main
10/02/2015 .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.
Read the full story hereNight Train to Berlin
27/11/2014 .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.
Read the full story hereBavaria In the Footsteps of Hitler
18/08/2014 .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.
Read the full story hereOn the trail of Richard Strauss in Germany
26/03/2014 .This is the view from composer Richard Strauss’s house in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Is it any wonder that he wrote the “Alpine Symphony”?
Read the full story hereCologne Christmas Markets. Markets and Magi.
19/10/2013 .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.
Read the full story hereThe 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 Frankfurt, germany, Rhine Cruises on .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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