Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I was incredibly remiss in forgetting to mention that you can get from Frankfurt to Amsterdam in about 3 hours or from Cologne to Amsterdam in 2 1/2 hours on the ICE train. The BeneLUGgers will be pleased to show you a good time in Amsterdam :-) Nathan Nathan Wajsman wrote: > Hi Don (and others who have spare time): > > I will give you a few options for spending a few extra days in early > October in that area: > > 1) Go down to Bonn and Koblenz and then take a drive south along the > Mosel river. Koblenz is one of my favorite towns in Germany. It is > located where the Mosel and Rhine rivers meet and is very pictoresque > in itself. As you follow the Mosel, you pass through a wine-making > area which produces some of world's best Riesling and sweet wines and > has some very beautiful towns such as Bernkastel. October is harvest > month, so there will be a lot of activity and perhaps even various > harvest festivals (although I am not sure if they do them in Germany). > You can also take in the city of Trier, which, like Koblenz, dates > back to Roman times. All this of course requires a car. > > The above makes most sense if the weather is good. We are talking > early October in northern Europe, which means that the weather can > range from wind and rain and 5C to a burst of Indian summer. If the > weather is bad, then a big-city trip is better, since there will be > things to do indoors (museums, shopping, exhibitions etc.). From > Cologne you can easily get to: > > 2) Berlin (about 4 1/2 hours by train). This has become a truly > amazing city since reunification. Old buildings have been restored and > enhanced, like the Reichstag, and some of the world's must stunning > buildings have sprung up all over the place, particularly in what used > to be no man's land. The cultural life of Berlin is also incredibly > vibrant, and regardless of whether you and your wife like modern art, > punk rock, traditional art or whatever, you will find it in Berlin. > > 3) Paris obviously needs no introduction, and you can get there by > high-speed train from Cologne in under 4 hours. > > 4) If the weather is truly horrible, you can also escape down to the > sun for a few days. Air Berlin is one of Europe's largest low-cost > airlines, and they will fly you from Frankfurt to, say, Malaga, for > under 300 EUR. Have a look at www.airberlin.com. > > Hope this gives you some possibilities to consider. > > Nathan > > Don Dory wrote: >> All, >> I would like to spend three or four days after the LHSA meeting >> breaks up in >> Europe. Specifically from October 3rd to the 7th, is there anythig >> really >> special that I and SWMBO should do or see? The starting location >> will be in >> Frankfort so a driving trip to Sicily would probably not work but what >> interesting ideas do you all have? My only real restriction is that >> I don't >> want to spend a huge percentage of the time traveling. >> >> Thanks for taking the time to consider, and I expect there will be >> more than >> one of us contemplating finishing the week enjoying the fall. >> >> Don >> don.dory@gmail.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands SUPPORT FREEDOM OF SPEECH, BUY DANISH PRODUCTS! General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog