Germany

Moving abroad during the pandemic: What can you expect?

Moving abroad during the pandemic: What can you expect?

11/02/2020
Germany, Personal Stories
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In March of this year, I was in New Zealand. I had landed after three months in Australia, ready to commence my working holiday via. Coronavirus was, at the time, a purely European issue - and despite being from the UK, I naively assumed it would never reach the Southern Hemisphere. Since we all lived through it, I'm sure you can guess what happened next.[...]
Are You Obsessed with Mad Men? You Have to See This Hotel

Are You Obsessed with Mad Men? You Have to See This Hotel

02/16/2020
Hamburg, Hotels, Inspiration
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Don Draper's Uncle is Alive and Well in Germany. (Hamburg, specifically.) When I was a kid, I dressed up as a "poodle girl" for three Halloweens in a row. For those of you who aren't familiar with the technical term poodle girl, it was the 8-year-old saying for a wannabe 60s sock hop gal, complete with a baby pink, flouncy skirt adorned with - you gues[...]
Hotels we love: Breathing Nordic air in Smucke Steed

Hotels we love: Breathing Nordic air in Smucke Steed

09/22/2018
Hamburg, Hotels, North Sea
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One of my long-term travel resolutions this year has been to reduce the amount of flights I take and explore my surroundings a little better. I wanted to get to know Germany's lesser known hideaways a little better and felt that two decades of escaping to faraway places left me clueless as to where a good old weekend on the countryside can be spent. Now Smuc[...]
Hotels we love: Villa Sorgenfrei & a weekend in Dresden

Hotels we love: Villa Sorgenfrei & a weekend in Dresden

04/23/2018
Dresden, Hotels
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In Germany, the city of Dresden has become the centre of political debates in recent years, take the refugee crisis, the nation's and Europe's response to it and growing right-wing extremism (like the weekly PEGIDA demonstrations). I know, this is not your typical intro for a travel piece but it's impossible not to reflect on Dresden's history and present if[...]
Hotels we love: Bleiche Spreewald

Hotels we love: Bleiche Spreewald

09/21/2017
Berlin, Countryside, Hotels
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Do you know that strange feeling when you look yourself in the eyes and realise that you’ve been completely out of touch with yourself and your body for way too long? The latter might somehow be functioning because it always does and you go about your daily business, or businesses. It may be when you step out of the shower, put sun screen on your legs an[...]
10 great tours to experience Berlin in an unusual way

10 great tours to experience Berlin in an unusual way

08/16/2017
Berlin, Cities, Favs F, Top 10
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You've seen Mauerpark, Berghain and Brandenburger Tor, and now you're wondering what else is there to do in the exciting, vibrant city of Berlin. How about a guided tour? The German capital has a lot more to offer than the standard hop-on-and-off tours you were forced to do with your parents or on school trips. Here are some of my favorite Berlin city to[...]
Traveling sustainably: A Green trip to Hamburg

Traveling sustainably: A Green trip to Hamburg

08/13/2017
Cities, Food & Drink, Hamburg, Wanderlust F
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We all know it: traveling is a wonderful thing. Period. But it is often also full of contradictions and dilemmas. To me, some of the biggest of these are to justify all the pollution and problems it can cause. To put it bluntly, I wonder often if we have to harm our planet in order to discover its beauty. I don’t know; one sounds antithetical to the othe[...]
Escape to Sylt island for a girls' weekend away

Escape to Sylt island for a girls' weekend away

07/09/2017
Germany, North Sea
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I seem to be discovering a new side to Germany every week at the moment and loving it! Last month, I headed to Norderney to eat and sleep and sauna; this time the guys from Airbnb invited me on a trip to get to know the island of Sylt through locals' eyes. We discovered a bunch of places that - along with the seaside air - immediately made my mind go wild a[...]
24 hours of Bavaria - Sleepless in South Germany

24 hours of Bavaria - Sleepless in South Germany

07/08/2017
Bavaria, Germany, Personal Stories
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I’ve got a confession for you today: I’m quite German. At least that’s what my passport says and my family told me. I’ve been asking for some multi-cultural stories from far away ancestors for a while now, but none of my folks could tell me any of those yet. I gotta face it: they might simply not exist. No crazy Mexican uncle, cooking me the worlds [...]

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