Hohenstaufen is situated at the north-western side of the Swabian Alps. The time of the Staufer was coined by […]
Staufer, Hohenstaufen, Wittelsbacher
Staatsbad Bad Kissingen, Czars, Emperor, Kings, Reichskanzler, ketchup
Bad Kissingen maybe is Germanys most known Spa, even ahead of Baden Baden. It is situated in the Region close […]
Weimar Classicism, ice cream Schiller, Goethehaus
After we experienced the harmonic chocolate of Goethe near Frankenhausen we went to the epicenter of German Classicism, to Weimar […]
Barbarossa Cave, Kyffhäuser
Once in a while Barbarossa needs to have time to himself after sleeping together with Charlemagne in the Unterberg Mountain […]
Warthburg, Eisenach, Thüringen, Luther
The history is full of smudgy walls. You can go back in history further and further and you will find […]
Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain Rome, Forum Romanum, Piazza Navona
Ronald D. went to Roma (Rome) to attain some spiritual development and enlightenment as we all know, he needs some. […]
Castle Grünwald
Wittelsbacher Ludwig der Strenge was able to take over the Castle Grünwald from the unlucky “Andechs Merander” Dynasty. The castle […]
Ejection Seat Training with Big Rocket Man
After Ronald D. dropped into the Wittelsbacher fountain during the Splash Mob event and almost drowned but was pulled out […]
Canale di Tenno Giacomo Vittone
The little village of Canale di Tenno with its mediaeval look is clinging at a sheer mountain slope. It was […]
Climbing towering walls Arco Italia
Marie Sophie, short after her arctic adventure used the chance to make a trip to Italia again, this time to […]
Koblenz at the Rhine
Koblenz at the Rhine River Koblenz 2016 when we went on the cruise on the Rhine river on the paddle […]
Drachenfels, Castle, Train, mountain
The mountain Drachenfels at the right side of the Rhine River maybe 50 km south of Cologne became a very […]
Happy New Year
Happy New Year (respectively old year in Sidney Australia) Sheila and Rudolph joined me on New Year’s Eve to welcome […]
Vienna calling; Sissi and Franzl coming home; my castle is my home
After Wolferl recently went home to Salzburg, Austria, Sissi and Franzl decided to pay Sissi’s and Franz Joseph’s former home […]
Titanwurz Botanical Garden Munich, Amorphophallus titanum
Sheila heard rumors that in May 2016 a giant “Titanwurz” was going to bloom in the Botanical Garden München Nymphenburg […]