European travel highlights
On this website you find different vacation reports, e.g. on Spain, Italy, France and other countries. All travelogues were written by private holiday-makers and show the personal experiences and impressions of these persons.
In August 2006, I travelled to Corsica together with four friends to visit some friends and acquaintances. Prior to the trip, we had divided into two groups, my girl friend and I took the plane, while the other two went there by car taking the camping equipment and the rest of the luggage.
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I knew Greece and the classical archaeological sites from former trips already. When I decided to go to Greece once again in 2005, I was curious about the Dodecanes and booked a trip to Cos.
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It was a beautifully sunny Monday morning, when we finally reached the Southern Alps after a long journey. I was hardly able to avert my eyes from the window of our old Mercedes although after the 15-hour journey, I was so tired that I could hardly keep my eyes open.
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I had been to Italy numerous times, but I had never been to Rome, when I decided to participate in a journey to Rome with the seminar of ancient history of the Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany, in 2002 at the invitation of Professor Dr. Gustav Adolf Lehman. Professor L. is the most ingenious of all professors of the University of Göttingen.
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In May 2007, I spent two weeks in the Catalan seaport of Barcelona. We took a low-budget airline from Cologne and took the metro to the city centre. The metro in Barcelona is relatively cheap and trains run from the airport to the city at short intervals even late in the evening.
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