The memorial site devoid of any beauty has a turbulent cloud of angst hanging over it. The caption on the gate ‘ARBEIT MACHT FREI’ was an ironic barren promise that suggested work would offer freedom.
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In 2019 the 186th Oktoberfest had approximately 6.3 million visitors. That is a huge number of jovial people to accommodate for a 16 day folk festival in a relatively small area of 300 000 square meters.
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Not everyone wants to spend all their time at the Oktoberfest in Munich. What else has Munich to offer in autumn?
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How much do you know about Germany? 11 awesome, useful and amusing things I learnt.
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The atmosphere at the markets is filled with the essence of Christmas. It has nothing to do with the glühwein, eierpunsch or feuerzangenbowle that they sell. Hmm, maybe just a little bit.
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Would we go with a tour group again? It is not really our style of travelling and we haven't done it again.
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Why would one eat Chinese food in Amsterdam?
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At a distance Venice gave off an air of elegance, yet there was much ruin and decay when you looked closely. Mind you, I would also rot and shrivel up if my feet were stuck in water for centuries.
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Rome with its myths, power and prestige was once called an Eternal City, the largest in an Ancient Empire but now doesn't even feature in the top twenty largest cities of today. Yet it's still impressive.
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We found Paris quite confusing to get around. We didn’t have the luxury of GPS’S and Google maps.
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Another highlight with some gloomy undercurrents was visiting an old cotton mill, which was still in working order. How sad to know that children used to work in the mill to earn a living.
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It was a blurry mish-mash of different sights from historic buildings, art galleries, roaming the streets to rushing from town to town.
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