Upper Middle Rhein valley

The famous Loreley rock. To be completely honest, our experience with the Rhine valley consisted of two separate visits. We visited Koblenz on [...]

Köln

The Dom of Cologne, a gothic masterpiece, took 6 (!) centuries to be completed. During all this time, the builders stuck to the [...]

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OK, so it did take me several days to come up with a good title for this blog post. I wanted it to [...]

Our tent at Gastätte Asel Sud. During our German stay this summer, we headed out for 3 days to the center of Germany. [...]

To start of our summer holidays in 2012, we headed to Amsterdam for 4 days. It was a memorable trip for multiple reasons. [...]

Visiting Potsdam was a treat-on-the-side for our citytrip to Berlin in December 2014. Our original plan was to have a full day of [...]

This world heritage property consists of 6 social housing estates, all located in and around Berlin, built between 1910 and 1933. This was [...]

Cast away by Slovenian storms in the first week of our summer trip, we found refuge in the sunny but touristy peninsula of [...]

As a chemistry teacher, I have a profound interest in the chemical elements that build our planet. As a geology enthousiast, looking for [...]

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When pursuing a quest to check out as much UNESCO world heritage sites as possible, one occasionally comes across some unexpected scenery. For [...]