Memories and hints of a travelling IT professional.
In an industrial zone of Potsdam, Germany you can find the candy factory of Katjes (in Germany well-known for gummy bears, also vegetarian ones). Here you can get up to the first floor to watch one production line and see how candy is made. Continue reading “Bonbon factory”
It was spring and the weather started to get better and more sunny. But then over night temperatures dropped and we woke up with a lot of snow in front of our hotel windows. For this day we had decided to go to the Biosphäre in Potsdam, Germany and that was a really good decision. It is a huge greenhouse with tropical plants, animals and tropical temperature. Continue reading “Biosphäre”
Little Big City Berlin is a miniature world telling the history of Berlin, Germany. It is located in the basement of the Fernsehturm (entrance on the back side) and I was a bit unsure whether this is a good place to visit. That was mostly because they have a too good marketing concept which made me suspicious. Continue reading “Tear down this wall”
The Fernsehturm of Berlin, Germany is visible from nearly everywhere in the city. And if you want you can get easily by elevator into the giant ball in the sky and watch the German capital from up above. Until today I didn’t meet too many locals or foreigners that went up – but now we tried this experience. Continue reading “High above Berlin”
The Düsterer Kellerbrunnen in Hann. Münden, Germany is just a small well where water comes out of a plastic tube that runs into river Werra. But it is the perfect destination for hiking on the Blümer Berg – because volunteers together with trainees and the local Bauverein (a housing corporation) created a nice hut there. Continue reading “Düsterer Kellerbrunnen”
Welcome to the jungle! Not too far away from the entrance of the Tierpark Sababurg in Hofgeismar, Germany you will find a bus stop named ‘Urwald‘ and a parking lot. From here you can explore the Urwald Sababurg, a forest with trees nearly untouched for hundreds of years. Continue reading “Urwald Sababurg”
The Modellbahnwelt Odenwald is a miniature railway exhibition based on track size H0 in Fürth im Odenwald, Germany. It is located in a large industrial hall and consists mostly of bought and integrated landscapes. The first ones were bought in 2008 from the Harzer Modellbahnzentrum and in 2012 the exhibition moved to the current location. Continue reading “Modellbahnwelt Odenwald”
The Sächsische Schweiz is the German part of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains (Elbsandsteingebirge) in Lohmen, Germany – not far away from Dresden. Once there was a sea in this region which created beautiful sandstone rocks. Both parts – in Germany as well as in the Czech Republic – have been declared as nature protection areas. Continue reading “Sächsische Schweiz”
The Loschwitzer Brücke (König-Albert-Brücke until 1912) is a 280 meters long metal bridge spanning the river Elbe in Dresden, Germany. It is an example for German engineering art as to allow ships passing unhindered it was not allowed to have pillars in the water. It is therefore commonly referred to not by its name but by the title Blaues Wunder (blue wonder). Continue reading “Blaues Wunder”
The soccer world championship 2010 in Germany created enough revenue and therefore the German football association (DFB) decided to create a national soccer museum – the Deutsches Fußballmuseum. Dortmund, Germany was selected to be the best location and it opened its gates in 2015. Continue reading “Soccer history”