I'm sitting in Bergisch Gladbach near Cologne as I write and the trip is winding down. It hasn't been a relaxing vacation at all, mainly because of all the driving. Germany is no more fun to drive in. It's become horribly congested since I was last here in 2005 and the highways are nothing but work zones with narrowed lanes and lowered speed limits. But we have seen some good stuff.
Why can't we get these in the US? They're ubiquitous here.
The only kind of shopping that really matters.
My wife didn't know there were Minis other than the current model she has.
My wife still has a hard time distinguishing between Martin Luther and Martin Luther King. But here she is a few meters from where Martin Luther was born in Eisleben.
On Friedrichstrasse in Berlin. No idea if it's real.
This was super cool. It's a formerly divided village on the border between Thueringen and Bayern where they left the fortifications in place (and maintain them) as a memorial. This place was very hard to find even with the GPS. No signage at all once off the hwy.
more to come