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Travelers share memorable experiences across Germany, including cycling in Berlin, the Black Forest and Sylt, visiting Cologne cocktail bars and North Sea beaches, exploring Münster's distinctive architecture, and climbing the Müngsten Bridge near Düsseldorf. The article also highlights an affordable month of public transportation for 63 euros.
From cycling in Berlin and the Black Forest to world-class cocktail bars in Cologne and magical North Sea beaches, readers share their travel tipsIn an often overlooked corner of Germany, near the Dutch border, Münster is an absolute gem.
Covered porticos will convince you you’re in northern Italy, gothic churches will remind you you’re in Mitteleuropa and the buns fromin 1648 and mull the report card of nation states in the nearly 400 years since. But really, it’s a great place just to drop-anchor and lose a few days. In the verdant countryside near Düsseldorf, the 129-year-old Müngsten Bridge, the country’s highest railway bridge, rises 107 metres above the River Wupper.
The impressive iron and steel structure is billed as Germany’s answer to the Eiffel Tower and if you’ve got a head for heights, you can don a harness and make the exhilarating climb to the highest point. You’ll be rewarded with incredible views across the valley, especially if you steel yourself for the nerve-racking walk across the narrow beam that spans the top of the bridge.
Eat your heart out, Sydney Harbour Bridge. Every week we ask our readers for recommendations from their travels. A selection of tips will be featured online and may appear in print. To enter the latest competition visit theSylt is more than a North Sea island to us.
My German grandmother met my British army grandfather, and Sylt became my mother’s childhood island. It feels made for cycling, with peaceful paths winding between grassy dunes, sweeping beaches and little villages. Spend the day riding, watching the surfers and eating warm Nutella crepes by the sea, before settling into a traditional hooded! An entire month of public transport for €63 – buses, trains, trams, ferries ...
The only thing that isn’t included is faster long-distance trains, but you can figure out how to get from A to B using thewebsite, which has a special “Deutschlandticket only” filter; the need to change trains means you’ll end up discovering places you wouldn’t otherwise visit. It’s worth it just for a week, or, if you do want to travel long distances quickly, just for inner-city transport. Use the German public transport app Mopla to buy one at any time.
Cologne’s famous cathedral dominates the skyline and tops most travel itineraries. But having visited for a day on a previous trip, we returned for a city break with one thing in mind: cocktails. The mixology scene here is world-class. The jewel in the crown isall contend and offer different vibes.
While not sat at the bar, you’ll find excellent 20th-century art, street art and a lifesized Milka cow at the chocolate museum. On a warm autumn afternoon in Berlin, a friend and I rented classic Dutch bikes to explore the city. As the golden hour approached we discovered. Used as an airfield during a darker era, today it’s a vast recreational green space.
Biking on the disused runway was enjoyably bizarre. Berliners and visitors alike were picnicking, kite flying, inline skating, lolling about on bales of hay, skateboarding, tightrope walking, birding … you name it. It is also an important site for rare flora and fauna and grazing animals.are the perfect way to explore the beauty and vastness of the Black Forest.
Powering up gravel tracks that would be impossible on a push bike was so fun and a real hit with the teenager. Setting off from the astonishingly well preserved town of Gengenbach, we headed to the viewpoint at, where we were rewarded with a glorious 360-degree view of hills patterned with colour and wisps of cloud. On the way down it seemed churlish not to stop at themountain hut and restaurant for possibly the best sausages of my life.
A thoroughly deserved reward: ebiking counts as exercise, right? Görlitz, near the Polish border, merited more than just the day trip I had planned from Dresden so I returned later in my holiday to explore its delights. It’s chock-a-block with charming, colourful buildings, making it beloved of German and international film-makers.
Strolling through the cobbled streets of the old town is like leafing through a lavish picture book of 500 years of German architecture, from gothic through the renaissance to art nouveau – don’t miss. Eat hearty Silesian sausages at beer houses and if you feel like a swim head out by bus to Lake Berzdorf, with views of the mountains from the sandy beach – or even the middle of the lake where I ventured to.
When my son turned 16 we drove to Munich so he could buy his first beer legally. Breaking up the journey we stopped overnight near thecircuit. You turn up, pay €30-€35, and get in the queue. We were overtaken by everything apart from a coach full of Italian tourists and an ice cream van.
, a Unesco world heritage site. On water feature days, park below Wilhelmshöhe Palace , ride to the Hercules monument, then follow the water downhill on foot. The free spectacle sends 750,000 litres tumbling without pumps through baroque cascades, waterfalls and a Roman-style ruined aqueduct, culminating in a soaring 52 metre fountain.
Following the rushing water from one dramatic stage to the next was an adventure, and after the 2.3km descent, your car is waiting at the bottom.
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