Tag: Germany
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Official Name: The Federal Republic of GermanyEstablished: 1871 (German Empire), West Germany and East Germany 1949, Reunification 1990Population: 83,166,711 (2019 estimate)Religion: 31.7% Protestants, 31.2% Roman CatholicsLanguage: GermanCapital: BerlinOrder of Visit: Thirteenth First Visit: 11 May 2006Last Visit: 09 April 2024Next Planned Visit: 01 December 2026 to 06 December 2026Duration: 23 Days (includes 8 days for planned 2026 visit)Times Visited: 4 times (2006, 2013, 2024 and…
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Tuesday 09 April 2024Highlights: Visiting Palace Pławniowice, Exploring Wawel Royal Castle Today was a long travel day from Berlin, Germany to Krakow, Poland. This is a roughly 600 km trip which was originally expected to take 6 hours but leaving at 07:30 and arriving at 17:15 it took 9.5 hours. This was mostly due to…
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Sunday 08 April 2024Highlights: Brandenburger Gate, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, The Canals of Berlin, the stunning Berlin Cathedral, visiting the remaining section of the Berlin Wall, exploring an underground bunker. Today our Tour CEO Christin kindly offered a tour of Berlin that wasn’t part of the official G Adventure tour. Originally this…
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Sunday 07 April 2024Highlights: Getting lost trying to get to our hotel, meeting our tour group Today we ended our short pause in Helsinki to get to the start of our G Adventures Eastern Europe, Croatia and the Balkans tour starting in Berlin.
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Friday 30 August 2019 Highlights: Singapore Airlines A380 First Class The thing to keep in mind about Australia and travel is it is so far away. My return home started on Thursday evening in New York (USA), which was Friday morning back home, and it will take almost 48 hours to get back there.
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Wednesday 24 October 2012 Highlights: Madrid at night tour, Flamenco dancing show There is definitely something to be said for being able to walk to the airport terminal from your hotel room. I’m always worried about getting delayed, not much chance of that when you are staying at the airport. I did learn today that…
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Tuesday 23 October 2012 Highlights: Heidelberg Castle I had originally planned to go on this tour at 3.30 pm but last night it was moved to 9.30 am. This meant an earlier start, the hotel breakfast (from my unearned Hilton status) involved a huge selection.
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Monday 22 October 2012 Highlights: Easy free travel day. Today was a travelling day to allow me to get back to Frankfurt and continue on my Round the World ticket on Wednesday. Breakfast in the Hilton Executive Lounge was once again provided an extensive choice, a great bonus getting free access. With any luck I’ve…
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Sunday 14 October and Monday 15 October 2012 Highlights: Surviving 48 hours on the road, Airport Lounges, QANTAS business class fun and pyjamas A very long 2 days with 4 flights, 4 airlines, 5 countries and over 8,800 miles to get to Reykjavik, Iceland from Bangkok going via Singapore, Frankfurt and finally London. I somehow…
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Sunday 25 June 2006 Highlights: Promenade des Anglais With almost everything shut in Munich I awoke to the sound of car horns that had not stopped all night the German’s had won last night and they didn’t want anyone to forget it. Taking a chance I didn’t buy the 9 euro ticket to the…
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