Two-and-a-Half Rivers Tübingen with a Thousand Scenic Views
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Two-and-a-Half Rivers Tübingen with a Thousand Scenic Views

Tübingen is Germany’s two-and-a-half river city but any resemblance to Pittsburgh stops right there. There are no steel furnaces in two-and-a-half rivers Tübingen, no ketchup factories (labeled H. J. Heinz or otherwise) and no world-famous sports clubs – Tübingen’s soccer team plays all the way down in Germany’s sixth tier. Instead, you will get plenty…

A Neanderthal Hike
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A Neanderthal Hike

Following in the footsteps of our distant ancestor – and meeting some of his four-legged friends on this Neanderthal Hike Why Neanderthal Man? Why is he the star in that collection of human ancestors, more famous than Peking man* and Heidelberg man, never mind the even less snappily named Homo Habilis and Australopithecus? There may…

What Makes The Old Town Of Goslar A UNESCO World Heritage Site?

What Makes The Old Town Of Goslar A UNESCO World Heritage Site?

Where to Go in Germany Goslar The Hexenstieg in the Harz, Germany’s northernmost mountain range, is one of the country’s top hiking trails. During the Cold War period, the Iron Curtain (aka the frontier between east and west Germany) ran right through the heart of the Harz, and the region (a restricted zone in the east,…