Right, I’ve gone through Lemmy, queueing and smoking in pubs; on to the Reeperbahn. We left Lubeck after an early start (by me anyway) gave me a proper coffee with a view of the Rathaus for £1.60. I love German bakeries with their self services cafes and bargain prices. The normal highlight of the city… Continue reading THE REEPERBAHN
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CIGARETTE SHARING, JAYWALKING KASSEL
The drive back from Southern Poland to Calais is 14 hours of motorway punctuated by nine McDonalds across five countries. Even on mainly German roads that’s not healthy in a day, so we stopped at another place we’d hardly ever heard of before, halfway between the honeypots of Leipzig and, er, Dortmund. Kassel is, I… Continue reading CIGARETTE SHARING, JAYWALKING KASSEL
GORLITZ
We’re in Poland with some friends from our Cambridgeshire village, staying at their flat near Katowice, which sounds very middle class. Other folk flew, missing out on tram/hat-Gate in Krakow, and a great border town in Gorlitz. Timing it just right, or wrong, we missed their Christmas markets by a day, but the old town… Continue reading GORLITZ
LEIPZIG – TOP ARCHITECTURE, HIDDEN BOOZERS
Once past Braunschweig the German roads became a bit bumpier, and service stations/McDonalds a lot less frequent. Combined with a loss of internet, this produced the sort of search for fuel fun that you really don’t want in freezing fog. Mrs RM and I had always wanted to visit Leipzig. A city with a league-topping… Continue reading LEIPZIG – TOP ARCHITECTURE, HIDDEN BOOZERS
THE BRAUNSCHWEIG QUESTION
Sunday mornings in rural Germany are noticeably quieter than in similar shopping-fuelled towns in England, so we had a quick getaway from Osnabruck. I wish German had an alternative coffee option to McDonalds. Every alternate service station on the main road to Poland brings a giant M that would imperil a lowflying drone. That’s the… Continue reading THE BRAUNSCHWEIG QUESTION
CRAFT BEER & CHRISTMAS CHEER IN OSNABRUCK
Mrs RM wanted to stay somewhere new and German on her birthday as we headed down to Poland. I briefly entertained the idea of Monchengladbach, but a quick sighter on the Duisburg-Dortmund train last year suggested this may indeed be the Deutschland Middlesbrough. Without micropubs (or parmos). Osnabruck has the advantage of a budget B&B Hotel, a… Continue reading CRAFT BEER & CHRISTMAS CHEER IN OSNABRUCK
LANDBIERPARADIES -NUREMBURG’S GEMS
I cannot tell a lie. The highlight of our Nuremberg trip was the sensational “craft” ice-cream in the street below, which is one of my favourite in the world. As is the city, which is firmly in my Top 5 (with Manc, Genoa, Ghent & Berlin). Nuremberg’s neighbourhoods/suburbs can’t rival those in Berlin yet, but they do… Continue reading LANDBIERPARADIES -NUREMBURG’S GEMS
ERLANGEN – AN UNDISCOVERED BOOZER
After a sobering morning walking round the old Nazi marching grounds, inadvertently intruding on the Rock in the Park site, we needed something a bit uplifting. Erlangen seemed the ideal lunchspot. A university town the size of Cambridge, whose most famous resident seems to have a love-hate relationship with his home, rather like myself. I… Continue reading ERLANGEN – AN UNDISCOVERED BOOZER
NUREMBERG BEER FEST – DON’T DRINK THE WHISKY BOCK
I’m sure there are some excellent articles on the Nuremberg Beer Fest; this one won’t be much help to future beer tourists. I’d start with Paul Bailey’s comprehensive review from last year, which even gives it it’s proper title. I’ve have made a better job of it if I’d just followed Erlanger Nick’s steer, but… Continue reading NUREMBERG BEER FEST – DON’T DRINK THE WHISKY BOCK
BAYREUTH – CRAFT WORK BUT NO WAGNER
In the year that Sonic Youth’s much abused Goo sleeve was released, I bought the Wagner Ring cycle (’60s Karajan, obvs) from Garon records in Cambridge. I must have played one side of those 19 LPs in the 25 years since, that good bit from Tristan und Isolde. Without the mental fortitude acquired from a session… Continue reading BAYREUTH – CRAFT WORK BUT NO WAGNER
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