A love letter to culture and slow travel
There are a few things Germans are better at than everybody else: technology, punctuality, beer (as a Belgian, I must say this one is debatable) and Christmas markets! I was never one to fully embrace the Christmas spirit, but I had to admit defeat after visiting the Christmas markets in Continue Reading
I was 13 when the Berlin Wall came down. While I was counting the minutes to the next break, my history teacher went on about “big changes” and “huge impacts”! I couldn’t care less about it at that age… Fast forward 28 years and I find myself at the Brandenburg Continue Reading
We arrive at the Hackerbruecke hostel at 11am. The reception is full of people and empty beer cans, a forerunner of what awaits us a few miles further on the Theresienwiese. Two days of Oktoberfest in Munich, that is the plan. Hopefully. We didn’t make any reservations for the beer tents Continue Reading