European trip
I wanted to take a trip to Europe in July, but I have never been to Europe. And I'm going alone. Maybe we can discuss the scenery and food in various places in Europe
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Madgirl · 26-30, F
Some advice on germany... since thats my home country.
Dont visit the big cities you might have heard of... instead go to a smaller town nearby, and you will have a lot better authentic experience.
Nuremburg intead of Munich
Mainz instead of Frankfurt
Koblenz instead of Cologne
Lübeck instead of Hamburg
and dont waste your time with Berlin... everything i awful about it
Dont visit the big cities you might have heard of... instead go to a smaller town nearby, and you will have a lot better authentic experience.
Nuremburg intead of Munich
Mainz instead of Frankfurt
Koblenz instead of Cologne
Lübeck instead of Hamburg
and dont waste your time with Berlin... everything i awful about it
SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
@Madgirl Definitely Mainz in preference to Frankfurt!
ArtieKat · M
@SunshineGirl I have vivid memories of Mainz railway station at about 5am lol. I was 15 years old, on my first trip outside the UK, on a school exchange; we had been travelling since around 10am the previous day - train from Liverpool to London, change to Dover, ferry to Ostend, train again..... Then changing trains at Mainz for the last leg to Frankfurt. Incidentally, I loved Frankfurt.
SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
@ArtieKat Good effort! So Liverpool to West Germany in a little under 24 hours 👍
I was on a business trip to Frankfurt and got quite panicky in the airport (makes Heathrow look like a flyng club). I had some free time after and one of our hosts took me to Mainz where I stayed for a few days. Loads of history (despite the best efforts of the allied bombers) and some of the best wine and food in Germany (quite a lot of French influence).
I was on a business trip to Frankfurt and got quite panicky in the airport (makes Heathrow look like a flyng club). I had some free time after and one of our hosts took me to Mainz where I stayed for a few days. Loads of history (despite the best efforts of the allied bombers) and some of the best wine and food in Germany (quite a lot of French influence).
ArtieKat · M
@SunshineGirl Interesting that you specifically say West Germany. This was the summer of 1968 - I was there when the Russian tanks rolled in to Prague to quell Dubcek's reforms. I remember well the panic on the TV news that in Frankfurt they were so close to the border that "what if the tanks crossed into West Germany"...
SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
@ArtieKat Habit. Some of my mother's relatives lived and worked around Saxony and it was a completely different world to the west . . actually in some respects rather more difficult to live in than communist Poland. Even today there is not full integration, hence the success of a certain right wing populist party.