Freinsheim & the Deutsche Weinstraße
Spend any amount of time in Germany and you’ll learn that the locals don’t do things by half measures – it’s all in or nothing. You can read a lot […]
Category Archives: Countries
Heidelberg
Some places you visit because you are drawn to them throughout your life, others wantonly sell themselves to you. Some places you stumble across whilst heading somewhere else, and others […]
Along the Main River
Bavaria’s Bamberg is a remarkable example of a central European town with a still intact medieval street pattern, and surviving ecclesiastical and secular buildings from the same period. It boasts […]
Dresden
Dresden is Germany’s phoenix, rising from the ashes and rubble of World War II in all its former baroque splendour. For us Brits it’s an uncomfortable reminder of perhaps our […]
Pirna
Along the Elbe and first documented in 1233, Pirna was a thriving Middle Ages town based on favourable river trading rights which profited the Electors of Saxony and through their […]
Bastei and Königstein
Following in the footsteps of that most famous of German romantics, Goethe, we went north into Saxony to climb above the Elbe at the rock formations of Bastei. Towering 194 […]
Northern Bohemia
From Medieval times, Bohemia was synonymous with wildly beautiful landscapes, cut through by the sandstone canyons of the Elbe which provided a trading and transport route for the heavy freight […]
