My wife and I ,in our 60%26#39;s, experienced travelers,but never Germany, want a taste of Germany.
Want to rent apt in a single town/city, 7-10 days, in a walking city and good public transportation. We will walk around, do a couple of museums, eat breakfast in, bring some meals home but like to eat out too. Late night activities not necessary!. Will do daytrips. Like trains Enjoy wine/wine country. Want neighborhood with shops/cafes/bakeries.
Where do we go?
Dave
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Augsburg?
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My favourite places are Munich and the Rhine / Mosel area. For the latter you can goto Wiesbaden and visit the many small town on the Rhine, perhaps take some cruises as well. Nice towns incl. Rudesheim am Rhein.
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Don%26#39;t proclaim to know that much but southern Bavaria is very nice. From the Munich area you can easily take day trips to Nuremberg, Salzburg, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Ludwig%26#39;s castles, Augsburg, Regensburg.
A wide variety of things to do and see and great inexpensive train service.
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There is no wine region in Southern Bavaria, so Munich and surroundings don%26#39;t meet the criteria...
Among Germany%26#39;s 13 wine regions, I%26#39;d suggest choosing among the following options:
BADEN: a) Base in Freiburg. Black Forest, Alsace, Basel, Baden-Baden are within reach. b) Base in Konstanz, heaps of options around Lake of Constance both on the German and the Swiss side, boat cruises, the islands of Mainau and Reichenau...
FRANKEN: Base could be in Würzburg or Bamberg. Places to visit could include Nürnberg, Regensburg, the hills of Franconian Switzerland, the wine villages in the Main valley...
MITTELRHEIN and MOSEL: the most touristy among the wine regions, narrow valleys, vineyards and castles, the romantic picture.
SACHSEN: Base in Dresden or maybe Radebeul. Dresden itself, Saxon Switzerland, the old mining towns in the Ore Mountains, the palaces, Görlitz, Meißen...
SAALE-UNSTRUT: Base in Naumburg. A less visited region in Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt. Places to visit: Weimar (also a suitable base), Erfurt, Eisenach, Leipzig, Halle, Freyburg for the wine, follow the traces of prehistory around Nebra Sky Disk, the traces of Bach and Goethe...
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The largest area of vineyards is in the Rhineland-Palatinate. Almost all of the rest are in the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg ( www.baden-wuerttemberg.de ; www.tourism-bw.de ; and www.schloesser-und-gaerten.de for the excellent castles, palaces, monasteries and gardens operated by this German state). Stuttgart ( www.stuttgart-tourist.de ) is Germany%26#39;s largest city with vineyards, and a rarity for a large European city in their being so extensive. There are scenic panoramic walks through them with wineries and places to eat along the way ( www.stuttgarter-weinwanderweg.de ). Stuttgart also has excellent museums, opera and ballet, Europe%26quot;s largest combination zoo-botanical gardens set amidst the nice Moorish architecture of this former palace ( www.wilhelma.de ), and three large baths associated with western Europe%26quot;s largest mineral waters. There are many interesting places nearby such as Esslingen ( www.esslingen.de ) with its well preserved medieval center, Ludwigsburg ( www.ludwigsburg.de ) with Germany%26quot;s largest perfectly preserved Baroque palace (in www.schloesser-und-gaerten.de ) with several days%26#39; worth of things to see and do, our favorite German town to repeatedly visit Tuebingen ( www.tuebingen.de ), and two fairytale-like castles ( www.burg-hohenzollern.com ; www.schoss-lichtenstein.de latter only in German), pus lots more.
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I would agree with Blandine that the less well-known wine areas of Saxony and Baade-Unstrut are beautiful and with lots of interesting sights (we %26quot;scratched the surface in summer 2007), but if you don%26#39;t speak German it%26#39;s probably less easy to travel around there than in the Black Forest or Rhine Valley or Franconia. All of these areas are much more geared up to English-speaking tourists; in eastern Germany you%26#39;ll find less info translated into English (starting with town websites) and fewer people who speak English. It%26#39;s something that my husband (who doesn%26#39;t speak German) has noticed, compared with our visits to western Germany where he would speak English and never havev a problem (it seemed at least!).
On that trip in 2007 the only places we heard English-speaking tourists was in Dresden (of course!) and Naumburg(more surprisingly). Admittedly we haven%26#39;t yet visited Weimar and the Luther towns.
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