just another personal blog of a bisdak
There are 20,000+ castles, palaces and ruins in Germany. And one of them is Castle Hartenfels in Torgau which has been around since 1500. It used to be a one rectangle building only but it was attacked, rebuilt, burned, rebuilt, modernized until what we see nowadays. Not all castles/palaces are maintained in Germany because that…
Search for “castle” in google map and Sachsen or Saxony, the region where I am in, does not disappoint. So when we had spring-like weather in February (Sunny @ 18C), we went out on a day trip. First stop is Karl’s Erdbeerhof which we love by the way. Parking is free and there is a…
Back in Germany for 2 weeks now. From Copenhagen, we drove to Gedser for 2 hours and took a roro called Scandlines Ferry and after 2 hours, we are back again in Germany. But before going home, we made a stopover in Uckermark to visit important places like the Wasserburg where we got married, Mann’s…
Or simply open air museum. This place is like 15 minutes drive from our hotel and it is made of several houses with roofs made of grass depicting how life was back in 1900s in the east side of Germany. Something that was nostalgic for Mann since he grows up as a farm boy in…