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Germany 2022 part VIII - Industrial heritage

July 23rd 2022
Coal, steel and rust This blog entry is going to be the last one we publish from our trip in Germany in 2022. The sites it covers chronologically both belong in the first week or so of our trip, not in the end. But hopefully nobody who reads this care about that. To us it makes more sense to put them together in one blog for a few other reasons. Those reasons are mainly => They ... read more

Europe » Germany » North Rhine-Westphalia » Essen

As Europe's largest economy and most populous nation, Germany remains a key member of the continent's economic, political, and defense organizations. European power struggles immersed Germany in two devastating World Wars in the first half of the 20t... ... read more

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Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Ake Och Emma

We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden. We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them. Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are Angel Falls in Ven... full info

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5th April 2023

Dancing Dave
David Hooper

"the most beautiful coal mine in the world".
and a stunning Supersized Faucet to boot. Germany is well known as a manufacturing giant so only fitting that they keep such sites as museums when their use is expended. Great blog & love this pic!!!

6th April 2023

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

"Look at the size of that thing"
What really amazed me about these sites was the size of things. Pipes, faucets, fans and so on. /Ake

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