Exploring Koblenz by foot and by cable car Evening blog fans! We had a great day exploring Koblenz’s historical sites today, and relaxing along the shores of the River Rhine… To help us recover from last night’s birthday celebrations our first stop this morning was a lovely […]
Happy birthday to me! Today is my 37th birthday and what better way to celebrate a birthday in Germany than with beer and schnitzel, right? It’s a terrible cliche, I know, but I can’t believe I’m 37! I certainly don’t feel any older than I did […]
Palaces, parks and Prussian kings Guten tag blog fans! It was yet another beautiful day in Deutschland today and given how sunny and warm it was we decided to head out of Berlin and spend the day strolling Sanssouci Park in Potsdam. Potsdam is about 30kms […]
“Paris is Paris, but Berlin is still becoming Berlin.” This is a French saying our tour guide shared with us today; it pretty much summarises what we saw of Berlin during the 4 hour walking tour we did of the city. Berlin certainly seems to be reinventing itself […]
Welcome to one of Europe’s premier cities! We’re in Berlin! We’re so excited to be here in Germany’s cosmopolitan, multicultural capital city – home to 3.5 million permanent residents and, in 2012, 9 million visitors. Divided for most of the 20th century, this city has had to reinvent […]