Hi! My friend %26amp; I are planning to visit Germany for the first time in May for 2 weeks! We will be travelling by train/ bus/ boat during our stay.
We will be arriving in Frankfurt and we are looking at making 3-4 main areas as our base for convenience in branching out for day trips. Please help us in identifying which should be the base and for how long we should be staying in each base.
We have identified Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich, Fussen, Stuggart and Cologne as places we should visit. Is this too much to do in 2 weeks?
Planning is definitely half the fun %26amp; we are open to any suggestions!
Thanks much!
Cheers...
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In and within 100km around all the places you have named should be at least 2 weeks of excellent things to see and do. With six places mentioned, that%26#39;s about 2 days per place discounting travel time between them. By the way, if you substituted Hamburg for Fuessen, they would be Germany%26#39;s six largest cities. Although you can do day trips to the countryside from any of these places, you might like to cut out a few cities and spend more time in the countryside which is for the most part pleasant with many excellent things to see, and many of these things will be in their original state and not rebuilt after WW II, as all of these places except Fuessen were heavily bombed.
As I live in Stuttgart and enjoy it and the surrounding area immensely, have a look at www.stuttgart-tourist.de , www.esslingen.de , www.tuebingen.de , www.ludwigsburg.de , www.tourismus-bw.de , and www.schloesser-und-gaerten.de for the many excellent castles, palaces, medieval monasteries, and gardens operated by the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg. If you click on my name, there are hundreds of forum posts by me on this area as well as a GoList.
If planning is half the fun, you%26#39;ll have a ball, but I think that you%26#39;ll actually find it a headache, there%26#39;s just too much. With over 30,000 castles and palaces alone, you can begin to see what a large job it is. I had thought that I had put a major dent in the monasteries I had visited in Baden-Wuerttemberg (I%26#39;ve seen a large number of them), but have recently discovered there are/were over 700 of them, so I%26#39;m almost back again at the beginning. Sometimes I think that ignorance is bliss!!!
By the way, most places in Germany are happy to send you their excellent information, I know for sure that the Stuttgart and tourismus-BW websites will. Tourist information for most places in Germany can be accessed by typing www.PLACENAME.de, substituting the actual place name. (Be careful of your spelling, you can%26#39;t just ignore the umlauts (two dots) over some vowels, which means that you have to add an %26quot;e%26quot; after the vowel, therefore there is no place called Fussen, it is either Füssen or Fuessen. And if you misspell a word such as having a burg or berg ending substituting the wrong vowel, you%26#39;ll get completely different websites than what you wanted.) Oftentimes there will be an English option you can click on, otherwise just go to Tourismus and you may have to cope with German.
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hello there,
if you land in frankfurt, the middle rhine valley should be definately on your list! you could take public transportation to mainz, and board into the cruise ship there:
http://www.k-d.com/englisch/index.html
once you have taken the boat trip to Koblenz, you are not far away from Cologne, its cathedral is definately worth a visit
and the bavarian/franconian region with rothenburg ob der tauber, nürnberg, bamberg or regensburg are all really good options!
berlin, with its unique history and vital vibe is one of my favorite cities.
have fun - tom
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how could i forget heidelberg? unbelieveable!
heidelberg.de/servlet/…index.html
it is only a 45 minutes train trip away from frankfurt!
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