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Octoberfest in Munich 2019

December 9, 2019 Leave a Comment

Munich Old Town Hall

It has been years since we have been to Munich—decades since we have spent any time in Munich. While we were once here (decades ago) for the Christmas Market, the closest we came to Octoberfest was a breakfast beer at the Hofbrau the morning of the day Octoberfest was to open (before we had to […]

Filed Under: Activities, Destinations, Europe, Featured-City, Germany, Munich, Museums, Travel Tagged With: Octoberfest

Berlin Restaurants

November 21, 2012 Leave a Comment

We were tempted by Berlin’s growing roster of Michelin-starred restaurants (13 and counting)–and even made reservations at one. In the end, however, we decided to save our primarily culinary experiences to the French and Italian legs of our trip. Even so, we found a few good and atmospheric venues to sample all types of primarily […]

Filed Under: Berlin, Cities, Dining Tagged With: Berlin, Germany, restaurants

Berlin Museum Highlights

November 21, 2012 Leave a Comment

Berliner Dom

Berlin has two large concentrations of world-class museums, plus a number of smaller ones scattered throughout the city. Given our limited time, we had to be selective. While we briefly explored both of the big museum clusters—Museumsinsel (Museum Island) and Kulturforum–we selected three museums from these two clusters. plus one Nazi regime historical site on […]

Filed Under: Art, Berlin, Cities, Learning, Sightseeing Tagged With: art, Berlin, Germany, museums, Pergamon

Berlin Rebuilding

November 21, 2012 Leave a Comment

Bldg-shrapnel holes

Joyce and I first visited Berlin in 1991, while the Berlin Wall was still in the process of being torn down. While the Western section was relatively modern and lively, the recently opened Eastern section of the city was characterized by depressing Communist-era buildings and a somewhat foggy atmosphere, like it had just emerged from […]

Filed Under: Art, Berlin, Cities, Sightseeing Tagged With: Architecture, Berlin

Berlin Awakening: Recovering from an 80-Year Bad Dream

November 21, 2012 Leave a Comment

RC - Mem Park - Belin

Joyce and I first (and last) visited Berlin in 1991, while the Berlin Wall was still in the process of being torn down. While the Western section was relatively modern and lively, the recently opened Eastern section of the city was seemed to be in something of a haze; like it had just woken from […]

Filed Under: Berlin, Cities, Featured-City, Sightseeing Tagged With: Berlin, Berlin Wall, Germany, World War II

Mosel and Rhine River Cruise

November 17, 2012 Leave a Comment

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We do not normally do cruises. We generally do them only when necessary to see something we really want to see, such as the Galapagos, the Three Rivers Gorge (before the dam) and the temples and tombs of the Nile Valley. We similarly wanted to see the Mosel and Rhine River Valleys. The …

Filed Under: Featured-Trips, France, Germany, Rhine, Sightseeing, Wine/Wineries Tagged With: cruise, Germany, Mosel, Rhine, Strasbourg, wine

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