Bavaria’s Bamberg is a remarkable example of a central European town with a still intact […]
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Dresden
Dresden is Germany’s phoenix, rising from the ashes and rubble of World War II in […]
Pirna
Along the Elbe and first documented in 1233, Pirna was a thriving Middle Ages town […]
Bastei and Königstein
Following in the footsteps of that most famous of German romantics, Goethe, we went north […]
Northern Bohemia
From Medieval times, Bohemia was synonymous with wildly beautiful landscapes, cut through by the sandstone […]
Where three countries meet
Standing on a grassy bank opposite an innocent looking and soggy line of forested trees […]
Liberec
Quietly, on a rainy Friday morning we made a ‘back door’ border crossing by climbing […]
Lower Silesia & Jelenia Góra
Trip days can sometimes frustrate best laid plans. We had only expected to do 80 […]
Wieliczka Salt Mine
Salt, the white gold, provided Poland with one third of its income in the time […]
Kraków
The history of Kraków can be read as a potted history of Poland. It has […]