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| Baden-Württemberg | |
| Bavaria | |
| Brandenburg | |
| Hesse | |
| Lower Saxony | |
| Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | |
| North Rhine- Westphalia |
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| Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| Saarland | |
| Saxony | |
| Saxony-Anhalt | |
| Schleswig-Holstein | |
| Thuringia | |
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| Berlin | |
| Hamburg | |
| Munich | |
| Cologne | |
| Frankfurt am Main | |
| Stuttgart | |
| Düsseldorf | |
| Dortmund | |
| Essen | |
| Leipzig | |
| Bremen | |
| Dresden | |
| Hanover | |
| Nuremberg | |
| Countries and seas neighbouring Germany | ||||
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GERMANY – Of the eighteen months I lived in Berlin, I spent eleven in the southern part of the city. Though some of Berlin’s most interesting neighbourhoods (Neukölln, Kreuzberg and Schöneberg) lie south of the center, I have to say that I found places of interest fewer and further apart to the south of the…
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GERMANY – Just like royal families other countries built their residences just outside their capitals, the kings and queens of Prussia chose to build their permanent residence in a town just west of Berlin called Potsdam. Bombed in WW2 and separated from West Berlin by the Iron Curtain afterwards, many things have happened there since…
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In the morning of the second day of my journey to Berlin, I made a walk of about 12km, through the city of Hannover. I found it an interesting and very beautiful city. Sometimes it was pitiful for the pictures that it was grey, clouded, winter weather. But I enjoyed visiting this German city very…
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This is a night walk, of about 4km, through the old parts of Hannover, Germany. I visited Hannover in December 2018, on my way to Berlin, where I was going to visit a friend for some days. Not exactly sure why I choose to visit this city on my way to Berlin and not knowing…
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GERMANY – The northern edge of Berlin is a very nice place to go for a bike ride when spring is coming into full bloom. So in this post, I will take you on through the fields and forests from the former east to the former west, through an area Berliners definitely consider part of…
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GERMANY – In this post, I will take you on a bike ride from near Pankow station to the neighbourhood of Weissenssee (which is now part of the borough of Pankow). Like much of Pankow, Kissingenstrasse, which goes east from Pankow station, is spacious, green, and lined with stately looking buildings: A building in a…
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GERMANY – To fully understand Berlin, one has to understand how spacious it is. This means that some districts are so far from each other that they could almost be in different countries, both visually and culturally. To many Berliners, this also means that many other parts of the city are full of the wrong…
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GERMANY – The wall used to stand just a few hundred meters from my first address in Berlin, on the other side of the tracks at Schönholz S-Bahn station. The people whose apartment I lived in told me that the whole neighbourhood (including a good friend of mine, who was too young to remember it)…
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GERMANY – In this post, I will show you some winter shots of Reinickendorf, the northern borough of Berlin where I spent my first 7 months in the city. Reinickendorf has about 250,000 inhabitants and covers 89.5 square kilometres, making it roughly the same size as my previous home towns Utrecht and Liège. This makes…
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GERMANY – On another short holiday in Berlin (little knowing that I would move there a mere three months later), I decided to continue my exploration of the surrounding countryside. So I picked another random destination that looked nice on Wikipedia (Neustrelitz), borrowed my friends bike and took a train there. In contrast to my…
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GERMANY – Wuppertal (population: +/- 350,000), which as the name suggests, lies in the valley of the river Wupper, is a town I had long wanted to visit for two reasons. Firstly, “only” 40% of it was destroyed in WW2, making it good place to see what other towns in the heavily industrialised Rhine-Ruhr region (most…
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GERMANY – In August 2017, a friend of mine had to spend two nights in Cologne for his job. As his Airbnn was pretty big, he asked if I felt like a short holiday. And who would say no to a free holiday? I had passed through Cologne before, and thought I’d give it another…
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GERMANY / LUXEMBOURG – A friend of mine was at a small festival on a campsite in the German Saarland for a weekend in May 2017, and I decided to go there by bike and spend the night. Day 1, 2017-05-26 I took a train to Luxembourg City, and from there headed mostly downhill to…
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GERMANY / POLAND – Most people have heard of Frankfurt am Main, an international center of finance, industry and transport. But there is another Frankfurt, which, even though no one has heard of it, is even more international by virtue of it being in two countries. I’m talking about Frankfurt an der Oder, which is…
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GERMANY – While on holiday in Berlin in December 2015, I borrowed my friends bike and started to explore the part of the former DDR (the former communist East Germany, for those of you who don’t know) just outside the city, starting in Brandenburg an der Havel. It was an interesting experience, due to both…
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