Rainy Day Reads

The little town of Quedlinburg is located in northern Germany 3 hours drive southwest of Berlin. The houses in the city are timbered, and gives this small town a quaint medieval feeling. Quedlinburg The town is a UNESCO World Heritage site and it has celebrated its 1000 year anniversary, which is quite an accomplishment, considering it had to survive bombings in the Second World War and the urban renewal plans of the former East German government. The oldest timbered house in the town is from 1310 AD and that also makes it the oldest timbered house in Germany. The hallmark of the timbered houses of Quedlinburg are the facades of the houses that are highlighted in blue, red, yellow and green colors. My two girlfriends and I were struggling to find a holiday destination for the summer of 2013, and when we asked around for a place within driving distance, Quedlinburg came up a few times. So we decided to give it a go and do a road trip to this little town. Quedlinburg is quite ...

For Christmas I got the book "1000 places to see before you die" by Patricia Schultz and I was inspired. I have travelled a bit during these past years and flatter myself that I have seen a good deal of these places already. And I was inspired to write blogposts about the places I have been, since I would like this blog to also contain a few travel tips and inspiration. Paging through the book I had to go surprisingly far to find a place I had been (not the mighty traveller I thought I was), but the first place I came across was Brandenburger Tor in Berlin, Germany. But here I have been twice, once with a friend and once with my sister and little niece. Brandenburger Tor was planned in 1791 as a remembrance of a Prussian victory, and in 1961 it was incorporated into the Berlin Wall when this was built. The wall was 45 km long, 4 m high and had barbed wire on top. Many parts of this wall remain scattered throughout the city of Berlin today as a historical landmar...