Author: david

Off to the High Tatras today. We drove to Tatranska Lomnica, and got a couple of cable cars half way up the mountain. From there we were going to get another (somewhat scary looking – there were no supports between the top and the bottom of it) cable car to the top of Lomnicky Stit, READ MORE

Had a full day in Slovakia, having arrived on (one of) this morning’s sleeper services from Prague: (which also carried cars!), and was met by Ferenc and Ferenc. We headed off to a treetop walk in Bachledka, which seemed to be extremely popular. Good views from the top. The top of the viewing tower had READ MORE

I’m sure the first couple of parts of this post will be of *zero* interest to almost all my friends 🙂 A very pleasant trip down from Hamburg on the train. Had a nice (albeit rather slowly served) meal in the dining car: The 6.5 hours flew by, with some lovely views at points; The READ MORE

After Minitur Wonderland I headed to the Rathaus. You can only see this with a tour. Sadly all the English tours were booked out. After a bit of indecision I decided to see how much I could follow on the German tour; it turned out about maybe 1/2 to 3/4, which was pleasantly surprising. I READ MORE

  Several friends had enthusiastically recommended Minatur Wonderland as soon as I’d said I was going to Hamburg. It didn’t disappoint. I seem to have taken several hundred photos, so just a handful are here. I was very glad I’d booked the “behind the scenes” tour in advance (there are only a couple of tours READ MORE

An afternoon in Hannover, en route to Hamburg.The Sprengel Museum of Modern art was OK; lots of works by Picasso. A lot of the collection is Sprengel’s private collection. It did start to feel a bit samey after a while, but was a nice enough few hours.After that it was the Altes Rathaus, which has READ MORE

More fun in Wuppertal today. The sculpture park, botanic garden and Von der Heydt museum. Photos below. The sculpture park was good; a lot of works by Tony Cragg (unsurprising really, as he founded it and lives in Wuppertal). Not as good as the Yorkshire Sculpture park, but OK. The VdH museum was good; no READ MORE

Some photos of the Schwebebahn…