A relatively uneventful day, except for 3 separate rain showers, my umbrella from Berlin has been the most useful thing I got. Went wandering throigh more of the city, doing what little shopping I could due to Sunday’s closure of 90% of the stores in Germany. Spent some time in in the horrifying Middle Ages … More Leipzig, Day 2
This is a post with random funny stuff I’ve come across. In Berlin on the city train 3 guys with instruments got on and started playing music loud when the doors closed. They also had a slightly hidden file player so they could “play” their instruments while sounding good. As soon as the music started … More Just Geman Things
Didn’t really do anything big today. Okay one thing was really big, but mostly today was a pleasant walk through the city of Leipzig, aside from the elegamce of Dresden and landmarks of Berlin, this city has a quaint old timey feel. Started with a trip to the apparently non-existant Leipzig sport museum which supposed … More City Walking
Not exactly a lot of things done today except taking the Zug (train) to the other major Saxon town of Leipzig (pronounced lipe-zish in German), a neat university town. I arrived at an awkward time around 1. Checking in at my hostel and dropping my stuff off, my first and only real stop of the … More Leipzig. No Clever Title.
Climbing and climbing. That was today’s lesson in Adventuring 101. I headed off nice and early to check on a long walk, much of which was uphill, out the German Military History Museum. It was closed for maintenance. And it is also closed tomorrow, those 2 days just happen to be the only days I … More A Rocky Road
Dresden, a city that was turned into a heaping pile of smoldering rubble in the final months of WW2 has rebuilt itself to one of the most architecturally impressive cities I’ve ever seen. Massive spires pierce the sky, and baroque and rococo art abound. Sooooo much done have to keep it short. Started off with … More Florence on the Elbe
Tchüss sadly meaning bye. My final day for visiting Berlin has come. A short walk to the Berlin Dungeon was quite exciting if a bit overwhelming. It is a heavily themed and decorated haunted house style walk-through with scenes and stories with cast interaction that loosely details Berlins history, from the plague, to the inquisition … More Tchüss Berlin!
Spandauer Zitadelle, a large fortress sits surrounded by a moat far in the western Berlin district of Spandau. It is nearly 900 years old and was originally a small island surrounded by a wall of wood sticks, but over the years it was rebuilt and added on to, and upgraded into a mighty fortress complete … More The Zitadelle
I finally got the pictures up on the post from a few days ago. The internet at my hostel went to garbage and I couldn’t get on for 3 days, so now I will be posing the next days rapidly. Another lengthy S-Bahn ride took me to Wannsee, a beautiful lake far on the outskirts … More Animal Houses
A ways north of Berlin lies the picturesque suburban town of Oranienberg, but the town contains a dark reminder from the countrys history. The House of Saxony, otherwise known as the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp in. It is a large triangular camp and was the main hub of concentration camps being so close to Berlin. More … More The House of Saxony and a trip to Potsdam
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