And the party begins! It just started! The greatest festival, Oktoberfest is finally happening now! Munich’s Mayor, Christian Ude tapped the first barrel of beer and handed the mass or mug to Horst Seehofer, Bavaria’s Minister President this noon time in Theresienwiese in Munich, Germany. One of the beer tents we visited in Oktoberfest. This […]

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Thanks to the little diary I had, I can always remember some of the travels I did this year. I can always remember the place I visited from my past travels but sometimes, if you don’t write the details, you might be able to forget it. I just took a look of my travel diary […]

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It was my third visit in Germany’s fourth largest city named Cologne. My first  visit was in 2006, followed in 2010 and the recently last May 5, 2013. It was quite a long drive from our place in Bavaria. Thanks to my dear friend Joy for being a power driver. I admired her driving to  […]

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Hamburg is the so-called “Germany’s gateway to the world”.  If I am not mistaken  the biggest port in Germany   is located here. We had a short 2-hours sightseeing  in this city which is not really enough to see many sights. Oh well, I was glad that I was there  even just for a short time. […]

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It is   Fasching or carnival season in Germany. I was browsing  awhile ago for some  pictures in my external hard drive. I was  looking particularly  about the photos I took during the Fasching or carnival parade  held four years ago in the town of Velburg in Neumarkt, Bavaria.  Witnessing such event especially if you are […]

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It was a long long trip but it was all worth it. We had a bus trip  that time and our main destination was in Bodensee and  a visit to Insel Mainau. The bus started in Regensburg at 6:00 am. It was around five hours drive with short stop somewhere down the road after two […]

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This is one of my favorite architecture in Germany, the  Neuschwanstein Castle of King Ludwig II (King Louis II in English) of Bavaria. The castle is located on top of the hill in Hohenschwangau  near Fuessen (written in German as Füssen) in the southwest part of Bavaria. I had the chance to visit this castle […]

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