Before we make our next blogger trip with AIDA to Norway in September, we were invited to the 1st AIDA Barcamp and Blogger meeting on board the AIDAperla in Hamburg. Of course, we were very pleased about this 🙂 It was a task to celebrate the 1st birthday of AIDAperla in Hamburg with other AIDA storytaggers, to spend a creative day together and to exchange ideas.
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The Federal Republic of Germany is the most populous country in Europe, with more than 82 million inhabitants. The country borders the North Sea and Baltic Sea in the north and the Alps in the south. The capital is Berlin (3.5 million inhabitants), other cities with more than one million inhabitants are Hamburg, Munich and Cologne. Germany is the largest economy in Europe and the fourth largest in the world after the USA, China and Japan. About 4,000 of Germany’s 11,116 municipalities are organized in tourism associations, 310 of which are recognized as spas, seaside resorts and spas. There are 6,135 museums, 366 theatres, 34 leisure and adventure parks, 45,000 tennis courts, 648 golf courses, 190,000 km of hiking trail network, 40,000 km of long-distance cycle paths and holiday and theme trails [Source: Wikipedia]. All this makes Germany one of the seven most visited countries in the world.
The Opel-Zoo – A visit of the Zoological Garden in Kronberg (Germany)
On this year’s Good Friday we were greeted in the morning with a blue sky and a lot of sun, so that the idea quickly became clear that we would drive to the nearby Opel Zoo in the Taunus. Even though we live nearby, we have never had a visit to the zoo on the screen or were there for the last time 20 years ago – so a lot of things have changed. And since we also had a …
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Sometimes you don’t have to travel far into the distance to discover new things 🙂 And so we came up with the idea of going to the 75-kilometre-wide town of Speyer to visit the local museum and the cathedral. Both were completely new to us.
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This year we should finally go to the ITB travel fair in Berlin. Last year we had already planned to do so, but unfortunately it didn’t work out in time. We were all the more pleased to be part of this year.
» Read the full blog postSpreepark – The abandoned amusement park in Berlin (Germany)
In preparation for the ITB in Berlin, we took a look at our Berlin pictures and found out that we have not yet written a post about the Spreepark, which we visited in October 2013. We would like to make up for this at this point 🙂
» Read the full blog postThe Felsenmeer (Rocky Sea) & the Monastery Lorsch (Germany)
On our day tour through the Odenwald today, we first hiked the fairytale trail in the Obrunn Gorge in the morning and noon, looked at Fürstenau Castle, the Einhardsbasilica and the old town of Michelstadt and then walked a little through the alleys of the old town of Erbach. In the early afternoon we continued towards Lautertal to the rocky sea.
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Sometimes you don’t have to travel far to discover something new 🙂 The occasion was a visit that awaited us at the weekend. Of course, one always wants to show its visitors something of the surroundings and since we live almost at the gates of the Odenwald, it was obvious to look at some attractions and sights of the Odenwald. Here you will find such beautiful cities as Michaelstadt or Erbach.
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After a week of Danube cruise with A-ROSA Bella we have arrived safely in Passau. A shuttle bus of the A-ROSA had driven us and other guests from the Danube pier, which was about 45 minutes from Passau, to the main station Passau. Since our train only went back to Frankfurt in the afternoon, we still had enough time to take a closer look at Passau.
» Read the full blog postThe Messel Pit Fossil Site – A window into prehistory (Germany)
Today we made a trip to the Messel pit, which is only about 20 minutes by car from our home in Darmstadt.
» Read the full blog postHamburg – Tourist Attractions, Things to do & Photo spots (Germany)
Since Sandra had lived in Hamburg for a while, we wanted to use this free weekend to explore the Hanseatic city on the Elbe together.
» Read the full blog postDresden – Tourist Attractions, Things to do & Photo spots (Germany)
This weekend we made a trip to Dresden. Dresden is the state capital of the Free State of Saxony and has about 550,000 inhabitants.
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