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Vyšehrad Castle

Vyšehrad is a historical fort located in Prague. It was probably built in the 10th century, on a hill over the Vltava River. Situated within the castle is the Basilica of St Peter and St Paul, as well as theVyšehrad Cemetery, containing the remains of many famous people from Czech history, among them Antonín Dvořák, Bedřich Smetana, Karel Čapek, and Alphonse Mucha. It also contains Prague’s […]

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Golden Lane

Golden Lane (Zlatá ulička) is an ancient street within the Prague Castle complex with small houses built between two defence walls. Golden Lane dates from the 15th Century and has a beautiful, olden world quaintness about it. It comprises 11 historic houses, inside which period scenes have been created to show the life of the artisans who […]

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Malbork Castle

There are a lot of impressive sights in the world and a great number of wonderful buildings.  To me there are very few as impressive and as memorable as the Malbork Castle.  The sheer size of it, the scale of buildings and the magnificent decor and layout are simply stunning.  Malbork is 3 castles in […]

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Lazise

Lazise is a small port town with a great castle dating back to late 800s.  Like most old European towns this one too has a small beautiful square a nice old church, Saint Nicolò, dating back to 1200s and beautiful painted houses.  Of course the lake is the dominant feature of this little municipality so we try […]

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Family Palace

Not as grand as Schllos Weissenstein but equally as charming and far less expansive to heat and staff is this little residence Volker’s brother calls home. This little house is a bit of work in progress, after years of neglect it is slowly being restored. Whatever the shape – the family has its palace and […]

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Bierfest

Today is, if you are a god-fearing folk, a Happy Cadaver Day, literal translation in German. This means it’s a holiday and everything is closed except churches and beer gardens, both of which are open for business and will gladly take your money.  Since we don’t drink beer, but have been to church before, we […]

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Pottenstein

The plan for this Saturday was to go to Pottenstein.  Pottenstein is a small village about 60km north of Nuremberg.  It is famous for its cave, its trout smokehouse and the summer sledding park as well as a beautiful castle perched on the top of the hill..  We decided to spent a relaxing day away […]

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