15 days in Denmark and a bit of Germany. A nice mix of big cities, tiny villages, cycling and hiking in nature, islands and ferries, and open air museums.
Tag: Germany
Cycling in the Ruhr area, Germany 2022
In May / June 2022 I spent a week cycling (on my human-powered bike, not an e-bike ;-)) and seeing surprising sights in the former industrial area Ruhrgebiet in Germany. Most of the city centers are quite ugly but there are cool industrial sites all over the place. Many former mines and factories are now open for visits. The whole region is very green, has picturesque old villages with half-timbered houses and some excellent bike paths.
Germany + Austria 2021
In September 2021 I finally went outside of the Netherlands for the first time in 18 months because of the pandemic. My own country is beautiful but I had missed real mountains. I was very lucky with dry sunny days for 3 weeks except a few foggy or rainy hours here and there. I hiked …
The history of my last name “Obertop”
The corona crisis gives me plenty of time to re-read the history of my last name, as investigated and written by distant cousin Frank Obertop in a work of almost 100 pages. Obertop stems from the name *Topp* in Westfalen, Germany and has traveled wide and far… My ancestors turn out to have been quite the …
Berlin 2019
Thursday 26 September - Monday 30 September 2019 My 8th visit to my 2nd most favorite city in the world: Berlin! ♥ (My most favorite city is my home town Amsterdam of course :-)) Unfortunately we had quite a lot of rain on 4 of our 5 days there, but that did not keep us …
Munich and the Alps, Germany
Monday 20 May - Saturday 25 May 2019 For a number of years now I had been curious about Munich: a big city but also close to the Alps. Various people warned me that it's not as cool and quirky as Berlin, in fact kind of posh and maybe even boring. However, online I found …
Monschau, Germany 2018
Tuesday 23 - Saturday 27 October 2018 A lovely autumn break to the Eifel region in Germany. Only about a 3 to 3.5 hour drive to be 'abroad' in every way. Did a 4.5 hour hike in autumn colors, explored Monschau and Stolberg, and visited a former 'Adolf-Hitler-Schule' school for nazis in the 1930's called …
Cecilia 