Germany
A brilliant family campervan roundtrip from England to Croatia
27/01/2020 .Celebrating the Bauhaus in Berlin
12/08/2019 .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.
Read the full story hereInsider guide to Munich. Immerse yourself in Bavaria’s beautiful capital
16/01/2019 .Stuart Forster reveals his insider guide to Munich. An essential companion to see the best sightts.
Read the full story hereInsider 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 hereThe Night Train to Berlin. Loaded with romance
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.
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”?
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