Blogs from Thuringia, Germany, Europe - page 3

It's a forest, It's a disabled friendly tree-top canopy walk, It's green. It's lovely, we are going for a fun day at the Hainich National Park.. we pack everything for the picnic, but forget the cheese, meet etc (happy we have fruits and leftovers left...) the canopy walk is amazing. the wheelchairs take the lift up, we climb the stairs. it's wide, stable, beautifully done and highly recommended. I'll just add some p... read more

So waking up early this morning I figured I would check out Buchenwald, it is only 8 Km from the ccentral station. There was an hourly bus that ran there so if you were late by 5 minutes you had to wait an extra hour. But arriving to the camp you go into the information center and they send you first to a short 30 minute movie showing hourly. It was very interesting and my school actually a few months ago had a survivor from Buchenwald come speak, he was a Polish Jew sent to multiple work camps and survived the death marches too. What surprised me about Buchenwald was how isolated it was, the Nazis chose this location because of that reason and to keep things away from the public. The camp started small but ... read more

Inzwischen bin ich mit Oma und Opa in Lehndorf angekommen. Es ist wie immer spannend, zwischen den Unwettern, unerträglicher Hitze und sintflutartigen Regenfällen kann man draussen recht viel Spass haben. Am Freitag habe ich einen neuen Fussball bekommen, original EM Variante, mit dem kann ich und Opa prima im Hof Torschüsse üben. Am Freitag gab es einen grösseren Einschlag, zum Glück hatten ich und mein Fussball damit nichts zu tun. Ein Auto hat das Nachbarhaus gerammt, soviel Action mit Polizei und Feuerwehr gibt es echt nur hier. Gestern waren wir in der Schwimmhalle, das letzte Training vor dem Urlaub um schnell genug schwimmen zu können falls etwas schiefgeht und ich grössere Strecken schwimmend zurücklegen muss. Man hoert ja immer wieder von versunkenen Schiffen. Morgen geht es in den Zoo nach Leipzig um mich schonmal an die ... read more

After visiting Erfurt, we made a quick stop in Weimar on the way to Dessau. Weimar was the former intellectual center of Germany, the home of many famous German writers, philosophers, etc. Dessau, in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, is the home of the Bauhaus architecture style and a city that clearly exemplifies its (grubby) East German past.... read more

A nice straightforward drive today and a lovely suprise when we entered the hotel - it was fantastic. The cheapest so far but with a swimming pool and sauna. The perfect relaxation after quite a lot of driving. The hotel was just off the motorway so easy to find in a nice rural setting and it also had bikes to hire for free so me and Sam went for a spin this evening but didn't quite make it into the town centre. Another gorgeous sunny day but at some point during the night we had a huge downpour. Feeling like we have made good progress and had a buzz when we saw signs for Berlin.... Lovely to know we will be there tomorrow and will be meeting Paul at the airport. ... read more