Transportation to and within Braunschweig
Since April 1977, steam locomotive 01 1063 has been on display in front of the main railroad station in Braunschweig. This locomotive was in active use on the German railways Read More …
Tag: Train travel
By bicycle or train to Friedrichsdorf
There are signposted bicycle routes leading to Friedrichsdorf from all directions, though when I went through Bad Homburg I had some trouble finding my way because either one sign was Read More …
By train to Toulon
Unlike Victor Hugo, who traveled from Marseille to Toulon by stagecoach in 1839, I came by train. His excuse was that the railroad didn’t even reach Toulon until twenty years Read More …
By train to Avignon
The train station Gare Avignon TGV was opened in 2001 on the outskirts of Avignon as part of the new LGV Méditerranée, the high-speed railway line from Lyon to Marseille. Read More …
Trains and bicycles in Osnabrück
Osnabrück Central Station (in German: Osnabrück Hauptbahnhof) is unusual in that two major railroad lines cross here at right angles, on two different levels. On the upper level, with tracks Read More …
The Bielefeld Conspiracy
Anyone who used to click around a bit on German-language websites in the early years of the 21st century has probably come across a phenomenon known as The Bielefeld Conspiracy. Read More …
The family and town of Montmorency
From the tenth to the seventeenth centuries, the town of Montmorency was ruled by an aristocratic family of the same name, one of the most ‘distinguished’ and powerful families of Read More …
Camille Claudel Museum in Nogent-sur-Seine
Nogent-sur-Seine (pronunciation here) is a quiet town of nearly 6000 people, located 93 km southeast of Paris. In the nineteenth century, four generations of sculptors lived in Nogent-sur-Seine. They were Read More …
Rostock twenty years later
My first visit to Rostock was just five days after the opening of the Berlin Wall, as I have described in my post Rostock 1989. My second visit was a Read More …
Rostock 1989
It wasn’t planned that way, but my first visit to Rostock came at a major turning point in recent German history. I arrived there on 14 November 1989, just five Read More …