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 […]
A marvellous day in Meissen… After spending the last couple of days in Dresden, learning about the history of this region, we have heard so much about Meissen, the little town that used to be the capital of Saxony. So we decided to take ourselves to Meissen for the […]
Delving a little deeper into Dresden’s history… Dresden is packed with people today! Overnight the city has morphed into a festival city of white tents, fun rides, portable breweries, whole animals on spit roast, and lots and lots of people…. We saw a few stalls […]
Wandering Soles 