Feel like being at Hawaii

Havaianas, Brazil

There are some things I would never ever do at home, like walking around without a shirt or wearing flip-flops. I still remember this annoying sound of (mostly female) students walking around with these minimalistic sandals in front of my office door. But coming to Brazil makes doing those things a pure necessity because of the high temperature, especially if you are arriving from a much more chilly country like Germany.

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Wismar

Wismar is a small town located Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, 30 km north of Schwerin. Why should one go there? The old town is in fact a World Heritage site of UNESCO. If you’re close by you should drop in to see the marketplace, the small houses – or to get some fresh fish.

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Beautiful Warmia

Olsztyn, Poland

Olsztyn (Allenstein) is a small town in Warmia (Ermland) and capital city of the region of Warmińsko-Mazurskie (Ermland-Masuren). It is 160 km southeast of Gdańsk and only 130 km south of the Russian city of Kaliningrad (Königsberg). The city has 175.000 inhabitants, the river Łyna (Alle) is crossing and around the town you’ll find wonderful woods and lake regions.

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Toruń overnight

Toruń, Poland

Toruń (Thorn) is a beautiful small town in the center of the northern half of Poland. It is one of the partner towns of my home town, Göttingen. I arrived here by car from Berlin on my way to Gdańsk in Pomorskie (Pomerania, Pommern). The city, located at the river Wisła, is well known for its old city center consisting of a lot of buildings in Brick Gothic style.

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