Super. You paint a very attractive picture, which challenges many of my preconceptions about these areas of Germany. It seems more at ease with itself than I imagined the former DDR-Länder to be. Would you say that’s the case?
Thank you Katja, a delightful account of your travels through Eastern Germany. Travel Germany should put your account on their website. I imagine you saw a great variety of popular local dishes as you travelled, can’t always be wursts and schnitzels, the only constant being fine beer. I always thought that the DB was the epitome of efficiency. In other SM I mentioned a coffeehouse on Friedrichstraße with splendid Schokoladenkuchen, you reminded me of the name. Good read with my Sunday morning coffee.
Fascinating travelogue, I wish I had travelled more in the east of Germany However, when I was living in West Berlin, I was in practice confined to East Berlin (haupstadt der DDR) though I did get to Potsdam. That had changed a great deal when I revisited some years after reunification. As for Berlin, it is an entirely different place, located in the east but not of it.
The last Zeitgeist of 2025 which has you painting a vivid picture of what eastern Germany has to offer the sightseer/tourist, would you say part of the secret attraction would be areas not being overrun by holidaymakers although i expect Rugen does get busy in the summer. It's always a bit of a balancing act between, no one comes here and it's beautiful to It's lovely but so crowded.
Yet again you provide excellent and evocative writing. So much so I've already read it twice.
Would it be fair to say that 110 plus years ago, some of these areas might have considered themselves as central rather than eastern Germany?
Super. You paint a very attractive picture, which challenges many of my preconceptions about these areas of Germany. It seems more at ease with itself than I imagined the former DDR-Länder to be. Would you say that’s the case?
Thanks for taking us along on your journey! Seems to me there is a book in there somewhere…
Thank you Katja, a delightful account of your travels through Eastern Germany. Travel Germany should put your account on their website. I imagine you saw a great variety of popular local dishes as you travelled, can’t always be wursts and schnitzels, the only constant being fine beer. I always thought that the DB was the epitome of efficiency. In other SM I mentioned a coffeehouse on Friedrichstraße with splendid Schokoladenkuchen, you reminded me of the name. Good read with my Sunday morning coffee.
Fascinating travelogue, I wish I had travelled more in the east of Germany However, when I was living in West Berlin, I was in practice confined to East Berlin (haupstadt der DDR) though I did get to Potsdam. That had changed a great deal when I revisited some years after reunification. As for Berlin, it is an entirely different place, located in the east but not of it.
The last Zeitgeist of 2025 which has you painting a vivid picture of what eastern Germany has to offer the sightseer/tourist, would you say part of the secret attraction would be areas not being overrun by holidaymakers although i expect Rugen does get busy in the summer. It's always a bit of a balancing act between, no one comes here and it's beautiful to It's lovely but so crowded.