Tag: Germany
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Middle Rhine Valley Day 3: Marksburg
Saturday September 19th 2026 I’d originally thought we might head off to a festival in St Goar with fireworks, food and music on the Saturday but we were both pretty tired and not feeling 100%, so we ditched that plan and decided to just go to Marksburg Castle during the day. It was a longish…
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Middle Rhine Valley Day 2: Hike Oberwesel to Bacharach
Friday September 18th 2026 This morning I woke up to do my scheduled run: 50 min easy plus 6 strides. I decided to avoid the rocky switchback and ran out along the road and down to Oberwesel before running upstream along the river until I was opposite Pfalzgrafenstein Castle. This is a toll castle built…
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Middle Rhine Valley Day 1: Arrival Oberwesel
Thursday 27th September 2026 We flew into Frankfurt at 9:20 am, and had originally planned to take a combination of train and boat to Oberwesel. Unfortunately the water level in the Rhine was so low that most of the KD lines boats were unable to run and none could stop at Oberwesel, so we caught…
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Berlin Pre-Marathon Days: 24th – 26th September
I do plan to recap our days in the Rhine and Mosel River valleys but wanted to do these marathon centric posts in close to real time. We arrived by train from Cologne just after 3pm on Thursday into Berlin and checked into our hotel, The Melia Berlin. We have a marathon package with Travelling…
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Dachau – Sat Nov 26th
We had to be in Munich to catch our flights home so we decided to arrive a day earlier to fit in a trip to Dachau. E was probably the worst he had been all trip and since it was so cold he decided to stay home. To be honest, three hours in the cold…
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Stuttgart to Munich – Fri 25th November
This morning we had a few hours to get breakfast and wander round Stuttgart before boarding our train to Munich. We had a look around Schloss Platz in the daytime. Our train to Munich was ridiculously hot. We stripped off as many clothes as possible but it was still stifling. Then we sat stationary for…
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Stuttgart, Porsche and Esslingen Christmas Markets – Thurs 24th Nov
Today was our final factory tour, this one at Porsche. We were a but rushed getting there because one of the trains out there was cancelled so we had a wait for the following one but we made it just after 10 am and had time to jump into the tour.phones and bags have to…
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Stuttgart Mercedes day – Wed 22nd Nov
I’m mainly skipping past Tuesday which was our travel day from Munich, which involved a long train trip. We did enjoy an excellent dinner at the Cube restaurant in the evening. This restaurant is on the top floor of the Kundtmuseum, with fabulous views and modern food. Our visit to Stuttgart was all about the…
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Hamburg Airbus Factory Tour – Mon 20th Nov
The big thing scheduled for today was a tour of the Airbus factory, but like all the factory tours, no photos were allowed. In the morning we went back to the warehouse district so we could have more of a look in the daylight. From there we caught a ferry, train and then bus out…
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Hamburg – Sun 19th Nov
Today I’d booked two tours with Experience Hamburg Tours. We started a 6:30am for the Sankt Pauli Fishmarket Tour. We walked down the banks of the river learning about Hamburg’s Maritime history stopping at various sights along the way until we got to the fish market. This runs from 7am-11am over the winter months. The…