With almost 40 million foreign overnight guests every year, Germany is one of the seven most visited countries in the world. There are 6,135 museums, 366 theatres, 34 leisure and adventure parks, 45,000 tennis courts, 648 golf courses, 190,000 km of hiking trails, 40,000 kilometres of long-distance cycle paths as well as holiday and theme routes available for use in tourism.
Business and congress tourism is of outstanding importance; Germany is the most important international trade fair location with several world-leading trade fairs: Caravan Salon Düsseldorf, CMT Stuttgart, etc. The Internationale Tourism-Börse Berlin is the world's leading tourism trade fair. Germany also has the highest density of festivals like Wacken, Rock am Ring,
Outstanding sights: Sanssouci Castle - Brandenburg Gate - Cologne Cathedral - Saxon Switzerland National Park - Wadden Sea - Hamburg Harbor - Brocken - Old Town of Hameln - Externsteine - Wartburg - Neuschwanstein Castle - Zugspitze near Garmisch-Partenkirchen - Rothenburg ob der Tauber - Königsee in Berchtesgadener Land - Old town of Bamberg - Imperial castle in Nuremberg - Mainau Island in Lake Constance - Lichtenstein Castle - Meersburg - Ulm Minster - etc.
The interesting offer of a house to be restored in Wassertrüdingen from the 17th century with a detailed description of the “life cycle” of the house brought us to the medieval town of Wassertrüdingen.
Christmas time is coming but due to Corona most of the wellknown Christmas Market are closed. So this is a short story from the past. After some busy and hectic days in the run-up to Christmas, Brita had taken the afternoon off to drive with us from Iphofen to Nuremberg to the Christkindlesmarkt.
We were traveling in the Taunus and that's how we came to Bad Soden, where you can still find springs in many places, including many warm and salt springs, so that Soden has now become Bad Soden.
Bad Camberg is the heart of the Goldener Grund, the second largest city in the Limburg-Weilburg district and the oldest Kneipp spa in Hesse.
Our tour of Bad Camberg quickly showed that the place has much more to offer than water, fresh air and a beautiful landscape. The small town always surprises with many picturesque and unusual buildings.
Our tour of Bad Camberg had almost come to an end, at least according to our schedule, when we came across other imposing buildings: the so-called Amthof with the town and tower museum, which unfortunately had already closed.
After the carnivalists had slowly "withdrawn" from the Bad Camberg market square, peace and quiet was possible again to enjoy the excellently restored half-timbered buildings in the old town.
Since the 19th century, the official opening of the carnival session has taken place in many areas in addition to or separately from the start of the "normal" carnival season on Epiphany, January 6th, on November 11th, the "eleventh within the eleventh". took place, which of course we didn't have on our radar during our visit to Bad Camberg.
Rodgau is part of the Rhein-Main metropolitan area, one of the economically strongest areas in Germany, so it is not surprising that we were invited to a working lunch in the region.
For some time now, we have had business contacts in Wiesbaden, which, due to the really well-working Internet connections, could be managed by email so far.
Dangast - We've already reported on the spa house and its famous rhubarb cake, as well as the local culturally interesting surroundings with their artistic approach, but once again we wanted to use our time on the coast for a long walk.
Quedlinburg - The UNESCO World Heritage town lies on the northern edge of the Harz Mountains and was a famous royal palace in the Middle Ages.
Rappbode-Talsperre - Of course, we had long since heard about the huge suspension bridge at the Talsperre, and we were already familiar with the double rope slide almost parallel to the dam wall.
A very special experience takes place in Naumburg during Advent: "Christmassy in the courtyards", the title of which should perhaps be expanded to include the words "and in the wine cellars".
Aging agricultural machinery such as Schlüter, Deutz, Kramer, Porsche or Deering tractors from the 1950s and especially the legendary Lanz Bulldogs are still particularly attractive today when, for example, a threshing machine can be operated with them via a belt drive.
There are numerous reasons to plan a visit to Naumburg, because not only is there an impressive old town with numerous historical buildings such as the Naumburg Cathedral, the Nietzsche House, the Marientor as rare Barbakane and the town church of St. Wenceslas, we can also see the vineyards and tasting the exquisite wines made from it.
We were out and about in Naumburg again, first strolling through the historic old town and then along the Marienmauer to the Marientor, the only remaining city gate of Naumburg's city fortifications, which used to have five gates.
The romantically decorated old town of Naumburg, a small but nice Christmas market and the unique Naumburg nativity scene with its larger-than-life wooden figures (we have already written an article about this) are now hoping for numerous visitors again, because the cathedral city is particularly attractive during Advent.
Who still knows them, the barrel organs, also known as barrel organs, which used to be pushed through many a city and then played in a busy location, much to the delight of many passers-by.
When we were looking for a workshop for motorcycles, we first came into contact with Tim, who referred us to his father Steffen, who has far more than just a knack for extraordinary motorcycles, especially for KTM, Ducati and others, what else still driving around.