History of Mainz. The city has over 2000 years of rich history and heritage. The adopted son of the Roman Emperor Augustus, Drusus, is considered as being the founder of the city. In the year 13 B.C., he established his camp on the bank of Main & Rhine Rivers: “Moguntiacum”, today’s Mainz, was born. It is known … Continue reading Places to visit in Mainz, Germany
This is a sequel to my other blog. Here I show the bright coloured faces of carnival of Mainz. Why I show faces separately ? Group says something else, face says something else. It is fun to watch the faces from close. Continue reading Carnival – colourful faces of Mainz city carnival.
Festivities start in November itself. Everyone eagerly waits for Xmas, year end holidays and again another bout of vacation for skiing in January, and carnival in February. Yeah, the carnival in February. It is celebrated by people of Germany in most cities. Cologne being biggest event. City of Mainz is no less. It starts on … Continue reading Carnival at Mainz in Germany
Osthofen – a small little town in state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany. No I do not write here the population, location, latitude, longitude, altitude and distance from Frankfurt and how to reach here. No way. You can find it all in Osthofen website in a better way than I would have explained. I will just … Continue reading Osthofen – the sleepy little town yet beautiful
Probing for next hike. I was probing for my next weekend destination. Best way is to browse the travel blogs of various individuals. When you search the Google, you get to see portals of many commercial travel agencies, which are are less use and uninteresting. So I look beyond these top rated web sites. After … Continue reading River that took a magnificent U turn. Boppard Germany.
Heidelberg is a town on the Neckar River in southwestern Germany. It’s known for venerable Heidelberg University, founded in the 14th century. Gothic sanctuary church towers over the cafe-lined Market Square, a town square in the Old Town (Altstadt). The red-sandstone ruins of Heidelberg Castle, a noted example of renaissance architecture, stand on Königstuhl hill. On the base … Continue reading Neckar River from sky – Heidelberg.
This is already second week of October. I was restless again. I somehow wanted to do atleast one trek or a hike in the forest before the winter. As usual looked around and zeroed in on Pfälzerwald e. V. Nature Park . This link lands you at a hotel in the edge of the nature … Continue reading Lost in Woods – Pfälzerwald e. V. Nature Park, Germany
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