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Reisling Tasting in the Moselle Valley
Supposedly we were to scale back on all European travels for the remainder of the year, but I couldn’t refuse the £40 RT per person tickets to Frankfurt Hahn, albeit on RyanAir {{shudder}} over…
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Leipzig: An Update from the former East Germany
With Portugal following Ireland and Greece as the latest eurozone member to request a bailout from the European Union (with Spain faltering economically and Italy collapsing politically in its own increasingly strange ways)…
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A Quick Week in Saxony
This week I had the opportunity to visit Dresden on a work assignment for a few days. I chose to fly into Berlin, hire a car and drive the two hours on the…
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Christmas Market Crawling in Berlin
Berlin is the fourth major German city I’ve travelled to after Hamburg, Frankfurt, and Munich and from my perspective, the most different from its counterparts. This was Lily’s second visit to Berlin, but…
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Hamburg, Frankfurt & Munich, Germany
I had an opportunity to travel to Germany twice over the period of three weeks. The first trip was long and very busy and included a hectic itinerary in first Hamburg, and then…