Exploring Germany's Cultural Gems: Tübingen, Weimar, Leipzig, Schwerin, and Ostsee
Rediscovering (East) Germany - 2023 by Naimul Karim (originally posted on naimul.net ) Germany (Baden-Württemberg, Thuringia, Saxony, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania), 2023 Most journeys are a journey in space – where you go places. But sometimes it is also a journey in time. This is one of them. You cannot travel to East Germany (GDR) because it doesn’t exist anymore. But it lives in my memory. That’s where my German experience began. Even though I had lived many more years in (the former) West Germany and some more in unified Germany, East Germany remains special. Now I had to revisit and catch up with something I had failed to do during my 6 years there. And that is to appreciate the richness of its heritage in classical German culture and history. Christine too, wanted to catch up with her (childhood) friends. So, we went and did both. Along the way, we discovered something unexpected. The best time to visit Germany is April-May - when flowers are in bloom, days are long,...