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The first time, I slept in a castle in Neckarzimmern, then went to Munich and walked around and visited the art museums. We also got to Fussen and saw Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau. We drove on the Romantic Road and visited Nordlingen.
The second time I spent four days in Munich, most of it at the surgery clinic on Nussbaumstrasse. My daughter had become sick on a Girl Scout Trip, and had an appendectomy. The last couple of days there we walked around Englischer Garten and visited the Center for Unusual Museums.
The third time I went for three weeks to attand my brother's wedding. We visited medieval towns of Hildesheim and Goslar, headed to Berlin and spent three days, visiting the Kurfurstendamm, Alexanderplatz and Unter dem Linden, taking the famous 100 bus, getting to potsdammer platz when it was still a construction site, the checkpoint charlie museum, the Kaiser Wilhelm Gedachtniskirche, and listening to a concert by the Berliner Philharmonic in the Waldbuhne. We visited Auschwitz (in Poland) and Buchenwald Concentration Camps, took a Rhine tour and stayed a few nights in the wine town of Bacharach am Rhine. We saw the Rhine in Flammen festival in Bingen and drank more wine. We visited Burg Eltz, a castle 900 years in the same family. We visited the black forest, saw the worlds biggest cuckoo clock, and the town of Freiburg. We attended a community concert of American Gospel singers. We drove around the Bodensee (on the Swiss side, and spent time in the alps, visiting Oberammergau, and the wonderful high baroque chapels at Weiskirche and the Ettaler monastary. We spent time in Munich again, this time getting to Theresienweise, Victualien Markt, and to a Japanese tea ceremony in German in Englishergarten. We traveled on to Rothenburg ob du Tauber and toured the Watrburg before returning home.
The fourth time I spent five days in the medieval town of Goslar, where a friend was living. Goslar was a favorite seat of the Holy Roman emporers, and the site of an historic mine.
The fifth time I went for two months, one in Berlin and one in Bonn, studying German with the Goethe institut. I saw many great sights in Berlin, Bonn, and Köln, and was there on 11/11 at 11:11 to see Karnival in in Köln. I also visited Boppard am Rhine for some great wine festivals, was in Potsdam for the 15th celebration of German Unity Day, was in Dresden for the dedication of the new Frauenkirche, in Wittenburg for Reformation day, visited Hanover, the Black Forest, Frankfurt, and managed to visit the Mosel from Trier to Bernkastle-Kues, the Wartburg, sleep in the Augustinerlkloster in Erfurt (where Martin Luther was a monk) and see both the Thomaskirche and Nickolikirche in Leipzig. We also toured most of the Zwinger in Dresden.
We visited Christmas Markets in Bad Godesburg, Bonn, Koln, Trier, Bernkastel-Kues, Koblenz, Erfurt, Leipzig, Dresden, and Goslar.
We're hoping to go again in October. |
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