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Germany Holidays: Sylt
The most expensive aggregation of sand and marram grass in the North Sea, Sylt makes an unlikely celeb heaven. On the map, the 40km-long island of Sylt, just south of the Danish border, appears like a...
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Germany Holidays: Pied Piper of Hamelin
Within easy reach of Hanover is a far more attractive town, and one with a well-known story attached. Every Sunday, from May to September, 80 townspeople of Hamelin (aka Hameln) re-enact the best-known...
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Germany Holidays: North Sea islands
These low-lying low-impact islands run all the way along the top of Germany’s North Sea coast. Germany’s North Sea islands are typical of the content of this site: they are little travel gems,...
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Germany Holidays: Ideal cycle country
Northern Germans are big bike users, and they’ve given a lot of thought to the regional cycle routes. Northern Germany is ideal cycling country. This landscape doesn’t detain many passing motorists,...
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Germany Holidays: The Harz Mountain Railway
This restored steam-hauled railway criss-crosses the Harz and the former border between Germany’s East and West. In many parts of Germany the train still plays the role of local bus service, holding...
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Germany Holidays: Miniatur Wunderland, Hamburg’s model railway
Squirrelled away up in the waterfront warehouses of Hamburg’s 19th century Speicherstadt is the eighth wonder of the world. Miniatur Wunderland is a permanent exhibition that attracts over a million...
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Germany Holidays: The Hamburger DOM
Once it was where they went to get closer to heaven, but these days the Hamburger DOM is where northern Germans go to get flung up into the sky. The name is confusing, even for Germans. Dom is...
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Germany Holidays: Wattwandern, otherwise known as mud-flat hiking
It may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but Wattwandern is serious recreation along the low coasts of northern Germany. Once you’ve got used to the ooze of North Sea goo between your toes, it can be both...
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Germany Holidays: Seafood and salty humour
Fresh fish, smoked fish and pickled fish are all much loved by northern Germans, and no visit to the coast is complete without a seafood takeaway. In the UK it is the barrow boys of London’s markets...
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Germany holidays: kings, castles and a very British connection
Braunschweig, Hanover and nearby towns Celle and Marienburg are fertile castle-hunting territory It’s fair to say, judging by the size of the National Trust and the success of programmes like Downton...
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