THE MOST UNIQUE GERMAN TOWN YOU CAN VISIT (They have a pickle queen!)
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2024
- When you imagine Germany (Deutschland), you are probably picturing fairytale villages filled with half-timbered (Fachwerkhaus) buildings...but today we are going to show you a part of Germany you never imagined existed! This is a village where instead of streets, there are canals, and where instead of cars, there are boats. The architecture is also something you will have never seen with snakes wearing crowns cresting the top of every straw roof. This is also a place where the king and queen of pickles can be found! This is, the Spreewald. 😊
Filmed: Lübbenau / Spreewald / Lehde, Germany - June 2020
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❤️Aubrey was a Speech-Language Pathologist, Donnie was graphic designer, but we both had a dream to travel the world and experience cultures. After three years of being married and dreaming about if something like this great adventure would be possible, we decided to quit the rat race and take on the world. We sold everything we had, quit our jobs, and took off! After 9 months of aimless and nonstop travel, we now get to fulfill our dreams of living abroad as expats as we move to Germany!
I honestly don't know if we can ask for more places to visit in Germany at this point because our list has grown uncontrollably and impossibly long already because of you guys...but have at it because we are now addicted to collecting unique places in Germany on our list to visit...what are more unique places to visit in Germany?? 😂
The Wadden Sea in Schleswig-Holstein or the Blautopf in Blaubeuren ;-)
the nordsee also has many awesome places & a lot of nature , also you can wander through the mud :).
I remember as a kid wandering with my parent to the Breitachklamm in bavaria, also a pretty awesome place ( but no idea how to describe it in english).
In nürnberg you can visit the Reichsparteitagsgelände (the place where h-itler did his speeches).
in frankfurt as mentioned you can check out the main-tower.
i also really can recommend hanging out at hamburgs elbestrand.
once a year we have the night of museums in frankfurt wich allows people to pay entry once and enter over 50 museums the entire day until late at night :) but its canceled this year.
also i can reccomend checking out german festivals like rock am ring ( but i guess also canceled).
if you are interested in pretty buildings and old churches I really can recommend checking out a trip to poland or czech. theres also a lot to see but its not as "popular" as germany. but on the other side trips cost nearly nothing and food/drinks/entertainment is also way cheaper there :)!
i hope some of my ideas arent on the list yet :)!
greetings as allways :)!
The Baltic sea area is beautiful. Kühlungsborn and the villages on the way there come to mind. But also Warnemünde. There you'll find a really cool hotel made of containers (yes, the one from ships) in walking distance to the beach.
The North of the Island of Sylt called Listland ist one of the most unique places in Germany. It has the biggest sand dunes in Germany and is also the northernmost point in the Country. I lived there for five years and there is no place i've ever seen like it. Like the Sorbians in the East, we have the Frisians with their own language and culture in North Frisia, where Sylt and Heligoland are.
Also Heligoland is very remote, but beautiful
Don't mind about the pickle lady. I'm born and live in the south of germany but always have a little culture shock when I go see my relatives in Berlin or former east germany. They're sometimes rough and sound rude but have hearts of gold when you get to know them. Or like you said she had a long day. I liked this video very much seeing you experiencing some special areas of germany. I live near Stuttgart and we are only a few hours away of great places like Oberstdorf (Oberallgäu), Bodensee or the borders to austria, switzerland and france. On our way to Bodensee we have Burg Hohenzollern, Schloß Lichtenstein, the town of Zwiefalten an der "Oberschwäbischen Barockstraße" known for their famous church. In the area of Schloß Lichtenstein we have two stalactite caves worth visiting called Nebelhöhle and Bärenhöhle.
The Everglades without Airboats, Alligators and Rattlesnakes 😆👍
I was on vacation in the Spreewald last week, by bike. I and my girlfriend drove in the barge in Burg / Spreewald. Was a Bike Holiday we drove about 130mls, in 5 Days from Cottbus to Burg, Lübben to Lübbenau, Burg Cottbus
You drove 200km on a 50km distance ? You must have criss-crossed and tried each existing bike-path ;-)
Being a German I have to admit I have never heard of this lovely place. So thank you for this
Nice! Glad to show you! 😊
Du kanntest den Spreewald nicht? Ich dachte immer, der ist deutschlandweit bekannt.
Wie weit aus dem Westen muss man denn kommen, um den Spreewald nicht zu kennen?? 😜
@@michaausleipzig Also weiter westlich als die Eifel gibt es ja kaum und selbst ich kenne das Sorbengebiet / Spreewald.
@@michaausleipzig Ich komme quasi von der niederländischen Grenze und selbst ich kenne den Spreewald.
Stop telling everyone about these nice places, we keep them secret for a reason. There's too many people there already 😁
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You two are very soft and quietly speaking Americans. That is very comfortable.
hahahaha! Video: .. a place where you find....... me: peace of mind!...........video: Tons of pickles :D
Thanks for making me laugh so hard!
Thank you so much for another great video about beautiful german areas and places. So well researched, captured and edited... you did an amazing job! 👍👍👍
Love this! Excited to visit this area once we get to Germany. So cool how a Slavic tribe has been there for 1400+ years!!
It has to do with the colonization history. These people have been the original native population and during the german colonization of eastern areas they just passed the area and never really settled there until the 19th century so that they werent killed off or assimilated completely. and so they still live there - but now together with germans. Btw as the sorbs were the original natives theyre also the reason many towns and cities have slavic names (ending with -itz eg).
Wow this footage is absolutely breathtaking 😮😮 I love how you explain everything and give background information about the places. It really feels like you are taking us with you and I can absolutely feel the peaceful vibe 😃I feel a little ashamed now. I am from Berlin and have never gone there, although it's really not far from there. A friend of mine always went there and told me how beautiful it was...but yeah, I guess I didn't really listen to her 😂
haha, that's the way it always goes with our home country I think. We have been to many different places around the world and now travel about every weekend in Germany, but in the US...we have barely even scratched the surface with traveling around 😂
@@PassportTwo So there is only more to discover when you get back to the States ☺️😁
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You was in the Spreewald an eat "Königsberger Klopse"??? That was the right time to eat Quark, Kartoffeln und Leinöl...
14:06 Those are for depositing the hay. So there are fields where some green hay grows. Then, they cut the hay down, and it gets dry because of the sun. Once it is dry, they gather it into those pillars, and is kept like that until moving it to barns. Keeping it on those pillars is better because first the hay is gathered all in the same place, slowly, and then the big gathering keeps it a bit away out of rain, and it would not decay so fast. It only rains on top, but the rain would not get very deep. Until bringing carriages or trucks to take that to the barns, the hay just stays there temporarily not for long, otherwise it will decay because of the rain. It is then very convenient to just load the trucks with hay as it is gathered in one place, rather than moving all around the field to fill it up. You spend less time for transporting the hay.
That hay is used to feed animals, and is very useful in the winter, when there is snow, and the animals have no other plants to eat. Though it can also be used during summer.
Great! You did it!
I did not know if you read my recommendation.
Now I see it was just in time 😁 love the video 👍
Great video! These is the types of places I really enjoy watching and learning about. The out of the way, not so touristy places.
Pleased yet again. Well done, thanks guys!
I like it.
This is the not-widely-known-touristy kind of stuff I usually look for at my vacation destinations.
Good stuff 👌
14:07 These things are used to dry and store the hay. The hay is still cut by hand, not by machine.
This type of hay storage can still be found everywhere in Romania, because the still cut the grass by hand with the saber in the mountains. My grandfather also built these things in the Carpathian Mountains when I was little.
This looks so lovely! Thanks for sharing!
My pleasure 😊
Der Spreewald ist toll. Ich hoffe ihr hatte auch Zeit fürs Elbsandsteingebirge. Viel Spass ihr beiden. 😊
Leider haben wir diese Reise nicht gemacht...nächstes Mal! 😃
@@PassportTwo Das wird bestimmt auch magisch. 😊
Talking about unique places you should definitely visit the Elbsandsteingebirge and many foreigners don't seem to associate Germany with the sea, so I would recommend Rügen for example.
@@PassportTwo Ihr müsst unbedingt ins Elbsandsteingebirge ! Es ist magisch und traumhaft schön dort !
Hallo als Lausitzer Flachlandpflanze bin ich so happy so schöne Bilder aus der Heimat zu sehen. Spreewald war in meiner Kindheit ein Highlight der Sommerferien.
Falls ihr noch nie da wart, weicht lieber nach Lübben aus. Lübbenau ist ziemlich überteuert und überlaufen, ausser ihr wollt ins Lehde Museum. Lübben hat alles was Lübbenau hat und einen Park mit einem tollen Wasserspielplatz, nicht nur für Kinder toll.
Die Gurken sind wirklich gut, leider wurde das Rezept angepasst, die sind mittlerweile viel süßer geworden 😟
Gurken immer aus dem Fass!!!
Vergesst nicht Quark mit Leinenöl zu probieren und selbstverständlich gibt es fantastische Plinse (Eierkuchen).
Falls ihr Kanu fahren wollt, passt auf nicht reinzufallen. Die Spree ist nicht tief, aber der Schlamm stinkt furchtbar!!!
Love your outtakes... more guys should do that ^^
Also nice video in a nice area! 👍
Love your channel
Thanks! 😊
I have been living in Berlin for 14 years and Corona might be the reason for my first visit to Spreewald, as we can't go anywhere abroad anyway. It's unbelievable, I know.
Definitely, especially since you are so close you might as well 😊
Ihr seid großartig ! Den Job gekündigt und Lust auf Abenteuer ! Den Traum hat wohl fast Jeder !? Alles Gute weiterhin und viel Glück und Erfolg !
Another wonderful video, showing your curiosity and openness towards your host country - much appreciated by this German!
14:07 These are traditional hay stacks, common in many regions, for instance in the alps. Today, we mostly have these big rolls of hay, but the kind of machinery necessary for those may be rare between the canals.
Honey pickles were new to me, too, but I can imagine how good they taste.
Did you see any christmas tree pickles?
Thanks for that information about the haystacks! Must have definitely misunderstood them 😂
We didn't but we definitely looked for a Christmas tree pickle! My understanding is that this isn't actually a German tradition?
@@PassportTwo It was - see "Weihnachtsgurke" in German Wikipedia. Alas, I haven't known these for 60 years until some American vlogged about this "typical German" item. Then, I found them on Nuremberg's Christkindlmarkt. When asking today, I thought that they may be popular in the Spreewald.
Other observations from your video:
10:46 These are festive women's garments most likely. The guy coming up next is dressed up extremely, more than usual. He is marked a "Hochzeitsbitter" which is a wedding (guest) inviter and ceremony master of weddings of the time.
I looked it up and both on the English and German Wikipedia pages it says this is not a German tradition but an American tradition that is often falsely attributed to Germany. The most likely story is this - "It has been suggested that the origin of the Christmas pickle may have been developed for marketing purposes in the 1890s to coincide with the importation of glass Christmas tree decorations from Germany. Woolworths was the first company to import these types of decorations into the United States in 1890,[4] and glass blown decorative vegetables were imported from France from 1892 onwards.[7] Despite the evidence showing that the tradition did not originate in Germany, the concept of Christmas pickles has since been imported from the United States and they are now on sale in the country traditionally associated with it.[4]"
So it seems that this isn't a German tradition but may be becoming one now but the German page says they don't know if it is because it is old German traditions basically forgotten somehow coming back, or (the more likely explanation) is its popularity in the US is spreading to Germany now. 😊
Hey you two, some additional information: Sorbs are one of Germany´s official protected minorities, along with Danes (mostly Schleswig-Holstein), Frisians (western Coastline of Lower Saxony) and Sinti and Romani People ("Gypsies"). If you like the Honey Pickles, you may also like "Schlesische Gurkenhappen / Silesian Pickle Bites" and "Honig Gurken" by Kühne. You´ll find them in jars in many german supermarkets. By the way: If you want to experience a real unique area of germany, that has been important for the whole country, you should visit the Ruhr Area or "Ruhrgebiet". Also, my area, the Lower Rhine region (Niederrhein) is another diverse region, influenced by the near netherlands and with it´s own nature and culture. I´d be honoured to guide you.
I am also from the Lower Rhine Region and I would recommend you to visit Xanten especially the APX. You will learn a lot about the Roman Empire.
Wow! I have to say this was an amazing video! Very educational as well! Some of the Bavarian style buildings reminded me of a little town in SW Iowa I passed through while they were having a festivity of some sort. It was almost 15 years ago, so I cannot remember the name of it. I enjoyed this a lot!
Thanks so much and we are glad you enjoyed it 😃
Congrats, you made it to Spreewald ❗👍👍👍 I spend my whole life in Eastgermany und was never there till today. 😔 Greetings from Thuringia ❗👋
That looks like so much fun! I wanna go somewhere!!!!!!
Very awesome trip I see. I am one of those who had not heard of this unique gem. That would be nice to see one of these days. Thanks again for sharing. :).
Wow! I can't believe we found something you haven't seen yet! 😃 Must be a very secret if even Darion hasn't been there at least 8 times by now! 😂 Definitely check it out sometime. It is worth a quick day trip from Berlin or Dresden 😊
@@PassportTwo lol lol lol :), it had taken me nineteen years to get back to Germany back in 2008 and since 2008 I have been back to Germany nineteen times. I tend to go back to places that I really love being around. I also go to new places of course:). I try to saver the moments as much as possible lol.
Eure Videos werden immer besser/professioneller! Das Intro war perfekt! Ansonsten seid Ihr beiden wie immer absolut sympathisch! Ich freue mich über jedes Video von euch. Liebe Grüße aus Berlin. PS: ich war vor 20 Jahren dass letzte mal im Spreewald! ..ich sollte mal wieder hinfahren.
Ich auch, ich war noch nie dort, obwohl es von Leipzig nicht weit ist ! Es soll da auch schöne Radwege geben .
The German word, that sounds like boat, is the German word for boat.
3:41 LOL :D
Spreewaldgurken sind die Besten!! :)
Ahhh der Spreewald.... wunderschön
I was there (some years ago) on holiday too, and I stayed at the "Schloss Lübbenau" Hotel... such a lovely/quite/calm place❤
Ich glaube, ich werde das auch mal erkunden!
The "barn" things are just a traditional way of stacking hay. It's still very common in Central and Eastern Europe. The central pole gives it the stability to stick together in such a big lump.
03:43 made my day. And really suprising me that u guys know Oliver khan 😁👍
Lüneburger Heide ist toll. Ich empfehle eine Kutschfahrt in Undeloh nahe Soltau, am besten zur Heideblüte. Auch das Wattenmeer bei Cuxhaven ist eine Reise wert, hier kann man mit der Kutsche zur Insel Neuwerk fahren.
Can I recommend a visit to Geisa in Thuringia?
It was the Westernmost part of the former DDR. One sight worth visiting near there is Point Alpha, which was the US Forward point for the duration of the Cold War.
The normal approach to Geisa is from Fulda. Traditionally Fulda and Geisa were closely connected but because they were separated by the border, a Forrest was grown between the two towns. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the residents of Geisa cut the Forrest themselves - their own particular Berlin Wall moment.
I'd recommend a visit there!
On your way back from Dresden you should definitely check out the Heidecksburg castle in Rudolstadt, specifically the "Rococo en Miniature" exhibition. It's the work of two friends who spent decades on building miniature rococo castles in their imaginary world. It has hundreds of little figurines and furniture and soo many cute details. It's definitely worth seeing.
Well, this trip was two weekend ago so we are already back...but we will add this to our list for next time we are over in the area! 😊
Hey Donnie and Aubrey nice Video. Could you please tell me from whom the music of the first few seconds in your video is? Its realy beautiful for relaxing
Oh... Spreewald! That's where I went on my last proper holiday... dang, over six years ago 😒
Can only recommend it!
When I visited the Spreewald, I decided to rent a canoe, and took three days to explore the area independently.
Late to the party, I know... But I wanted to thank you to mention the "Lehde"village! My maternial grandmother's maiden name was "Lehde" and I was not aware that there is a village/town of that name! I have been born in Paterborn (NRW) and have only been to Magdeburg, Dreseden (just a few hours) and Weimar (a frew hours as well) and Berlin, of course (6 days in 1986 during a school trip, so before the fall of the wall) - but I definitely have to go! Oh, and by the way: I just today picled Gurken from our garden (and Zucchini) - also with sugar, so sweet- and- sour...
During my time in the university choir there was a sorbian guy and I wasn't even aware before he told me. Even though I'm saxon myself and they live in parts of eastern saxony I had never knowingly met one. We got along great though and when our choir did a concert in Prague it was great to have him around. He could speak and understand czech, much to the surprise of the czechs who are not used to a german speaking their language (sadly actually...).
I 'm born there, I think you are one of the first American tourists reporting about this on UA-cam. Cause also inside Germany, this is considered as something for retired people only sometimes. If you look into the boats, you will confirm. But it's also nice and quiet on kayak and bicycle. Always start your tour with enough change, to tip the helping people on the locks. (not more than 1€ per kayak, don't spoil them).
The Freilichtmuseums of Lindlar in NRW and Bad Windsheim in Franken are a must visit site........
Very "entschleunigend" beginning (good for coming down). Probably you can compair a glass of "Senfgurken" (fe from rewe) with your glass.
Up until the early 20th century, wealthy Berlin families would often employ young sorbic women from the Spreewald area to look after their children. They often came from child-rich families and were thought of as honest and hard-working. So for a while, the sorbic traditional dress and headdress became synonymous with a nanny uniform in Berlin.
Hi Donnie! glad to see you´re well.great video.It could serve for a promotion video for the Spreewald.
You made a (oliver) Kahn tour? LOL Have you already seen Dresden or are you still going there?
If you´re still going there, you must visit the "sächsische Schweiz.Impressive!
Great that you´re so interested in the diverse style of german regions.You found good facts about the
sorbian.thumbs up!
how long are you still in germany and what do you want to see?
Are you interested to visit the deepest west of germany?
Go on with the funny takeouts,stay safe and all the best!
This trip was actually a couple of weeks ago now and we are back. We want to go back and see the Sächsische Schweiz!
We are living here now and don't know how long but we won't be leaving any time soon 😊
We want to see it all! haha, We are living in far west Germany now so we would love to find more around us as well!
What a fun place!
I knew what you were going to show even before clicking on the video, even though I've never been there - my grandma's second husband came from there.
Jede Gegend von Deutschland ist einzigartig...
The haystacks are called "Mieten". They stack them up, to keep the hay dry. Rain would run down the stems . The same pinciple as the reed roofs. Nice vlog, bye the way !
It s just the old way of storing hay,..
was it around 7:35 Wotschofska? ´cause by boyfriend also said, we had a drink there 2 years ago at our tour around the Fließe...
Luckily I have a photo of the map at my mobile, so I´ve been looking 4 ur boat--route constantly ... -_-'
In fact the last time in Lübbenau was my 3rd or 4th ride and during the first vacation with my boyfriend, where I showed him my 2nd home...
My dad comes from near Berlin, my mom near Weimar and both met in Eisenach and worked here at the AWE (former Automobilwerk Eisenach, now Automobil Welt Eisenach). They lived in the same dorm and even stayed in the area. Both are now living in a smal village about 6-10 km away from the town, where I life now since about one and a half years.
I would recomment Eisenach for a visit, if we wouldn´t have a problem with nazis and "we aren´t nazis but" - people. Besides the political there are beautiful hiking-tracks, the Wartburg, the Nightkeeper-tour near evening and the Burschenschaftsdenkmal. Also, if you´re in the area, Ruhla is also beautiful especialy in winter, when many goes out for hiking, ski or snowboard tours. My driving teacher only said in every picture with lots of snow "Ruhla". It also have a long history of clockworking (I hope that´s the right word for Uhrmacherei...) and forging. We hiked this year about 4 hours from Southern Eisenach throu the Drachenschlucht and the Hohe Sonne to mini-a-thür in Ruhla, where all the sightseeing thuringias is placed just in smal and in one place. In winter it´s closed also while this situation like most of the museums and other cultur-aspects. But after the pandemics it´s absolut worth a shoot. ;)
What you called "huts from hay" is hay stacked around a pole to be protected from rain and dew so that it can go on drying. There are different types of contructions, the type you saw is a "Dreibockreuter" I guess. And hay is very different from straw. Lying in hay does not stich at all.
Germany is blessed 🙏♥️♥️ with nature & wonderful Human beings..✨
If you ever get to this place ever again try to be there around easter. The Easter time is one of the most important times and festivals for sorbs ... and the whole area is decorated like ... ... I can't even find a way to describe it proper.
you just have to see it 😅
Yayyy Spreeewald! Let's. fucking. go!
Most natives need to spend their vacation time in other countries, but haven't even seen 2% of their own country after 5 decades ...
Right, but I always say, I keep it for retirement. Whe you are fit you can go to the Titicaca or the Kilimanjaro, the short trips you can do when you are 75.
You walked next to my grandparents house ( 3:50)😁 i hope you enjoyed the time in Spreewald
That’s such a small world! haha We loved it 😊
nice video
KAHN, hahahaha, i like your video editing. :)
One thing I do recommend is to visit the lake of Konstanz . Specially the pilgrim church of Birnau, Meersburg with it's oldest Burg in Germany and the Pfahlbauten where you can see how people lived around 10 thousand years ago. Of course the city of Konstanz is worthwhile visiting too with it's 2000 plus year old history.☺👍
Was only one time there, but the pfahlbauten were fantastic, sadly it was before the opening of Meinau (i think its written wrong , its the flower isle of the bodensee!
Pfahlbauten sind in Unteruhldingen, Birnau und Meersburg sind auf der gleichen Seite des Sees.
Meersburg ist sehr alt und wunderschön, viel Fachwerk und die Burg Meersburg. Es gibt eine Fähre auf die andere Seite des Sees.
Konstanz ist auf der anderen Seite.
Ab Friedrichshafen, ein paar Kilometer von Meersburg, gibt es eine schnelle Fähre nach Konstanz - Staad.
Where i live in Wichita KS we have the Old Cowtown Museum. It is the main street of Wichita back in the late 1800 or earlier 1900
😅 The first 1 minute 20 secs...OMFG ! One of the best movie intros I've seen on YT for a long time ! So well cut and filmed and put together, it was touching and I thought I'm about to watch something that is going to get an award later on....and then came pickles 🤣
I didn't expect the Kahn joke. I hope no soccer balls came past your Kahn.
You mean football right?
Nah, definitely soccer 😉
@@PassportTwo what is that strange soccer game? I think you mean football the game with the ball you play with your foot nor the American rugby the game with the leather egg you play with your hands xP
So, last year my friends and I actually went so the Gurkenfest in Golßen . It was exactly as it sounds: totally weird and totally awesome 😂 So sad it got cancelled this year. We wanted to make a big excursion 😂😂
You have these houses with straw roofs also in Northern Germany which are actually typical for Germany's coast region.
Die Pickle-Lady war wohl sauer ;-D
Donnie, did you eat Königsberger Klopse in Lehde? They looked delicious!
On the menu it was called "Rindsknödel in Meerrettichsoße mit Kartoffeln" 😊
@@PassportTwo which is, more or less, a variety of Königsberger Klopse. Lecker!
This is something I would have liked to have seen while stationed in Germany. Liked the part about the indigenous people that have lived there for 1400 years. It is a wonder how they dealt with the 1st and 2nd world wars.
You know the difference between pickle-Königin vs. Pickel-queen? 🤣😂
Ich bin in Dresden geboren und aufgewachsen. Als Kind war ich öfter mit meiner Familie dort. Es ist sehr schön und entspannend. Aber ich bin seit 30 Jahren nicht mehr da gewesen. Es waren immer sehr schöne Ausflüge.
Schön! Wie viel Spaß es gemacht hätte, dort aufzuwachsen. 😀
Dresden liegt noch mal 60km entfernt.
@@connyapfelbaum4498 Heißt das du bist weggezogen?
I didn't even know we had unicorns in Germany. Learning so much about my country from you. 🦄🤣
You must not follow NALF on UA-cam or German professional American football www.unicorns.de 😉
You must be a wizard to see them or at least a nearby Wizard xD
Nawwww I just saw that you actually have already been to the Spreewald.... Oh men... I know a Kahn Fahrer in Lübbenau who also does English tours cuz I've done one with some USA friends.... 😅
i have lived my first 20 years in east germany and of course i knew there is the spreewald and the river spree, i know of the sorbs and know lots of slavic farytales(or legends?) and i still prefer pickles from this area, but i actually never was there myself and i didnt know how nice this region looks.
one thing that will probably prevents me from ever going there is that it looks like too much tourism, especially older people or people who know how to use a boot thingy.
i live in the schwarz wald right now and there is a town titisee-neustadt and i hate it for the same reasons.
Why did you leave the east but actually liked it there?
Due to Corona we are going to spend our holidays in Germany 🙄 and now we are looking for nice places to visit. Dresden and the Spreewald would be definitely a great destination. Thank you so much for the inspiration...🙋🏼♀️
I checked both this week, and they are still not very crowed. All the bus tours are missing, it's just some tourists who come on their own.
The area around the Spreewald, the Dahme-Seeland, is very very lovely, too! Wirklich schön!
Als ich Gurkenkönigin las, wusste ich sofort, dass Ihr im Spreewald seid! ;)
Was macht Ihr denn in der Ecke? Ist Berlin dort nicht die erste Adresse zum Besuchen?
Wir haben Berlin bereits zweimal besucht, es war also Zeit für etwas Neues 😃
@@PassportTwo Ah ok, sehr gute Idee! ;)
i am german and didnt know about this, i knew spreewald only for the pickles
btw: I'm a fairly decent English speaker (for a German) but i still get goosebumps when Americans call this sour vegetables pickles. It' slightly spelled different in German but it means and sounds like pimple in German
And everytime we see it on facewash, we imagine someone is rubbing gherkins all over their face 😂
Ich habe einen kleinen Wochenendgarten in Lübbenau, direkt am Kanal, ich würde euch so gerne auf eine Baddeltur einladen...
I'm not a soccer fan at all, but the Oliver Kahn reference was hilarious. :D (he's really famous in Germany)
I then googled it myself, and yeah, to find a description of the boat "Kahn" is actually not easy. :D
You guys have been to Schwerin, if my memory serves me correct,...that s also in the former GDR 😉
Dang...completely forgot about that...thanks for reminding us! 😂
And you have to visit Moritzburg close to Dresden. This Schloss was in one of the most beautiful Cinderella films.
Drei Nüsse für Aschenbrödel, the original German name of Brothers Grimm. Ashes-maid is not as glamorous as Cinderella.
Watch the film on Netflix before you go there.
It is made by Czech film company and the prince and princess were the sweetest teenagers.
In East Germany and Berlin this movie is in cinemas at Adventszeit. Fully booked always.
From Moritzburg it is one or two hours to Elbsandsteingebirge.
Enjoy Sachsen. 😁
Der Titel (in Großbuchstaben!) riecht nach Clickbait - ist es aber nicht! Thumb up! In die Stadt muß ich auch mal!
Kahn tours are for pensionists - rent a kayak is more for a younger crowd. The haystacks (in German: Heuhaufen oder Heudiemen) ar an old fashion / traditional way to store hay in Europe with the hay functioning as it's own roof: if it rains only the top layer of the hay gets wet keeping the rest of stack dry.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieme
I heard of something Unique, only few germans know. In the north there is a Nandu farm. In the 2000s a storm hit the area and 6 birds or pair of birds got in the wild. They couldn't get caught and so they live in northern germany. Now we have more than 300 Nandus and because they life so good, the Nandu is now an animal of german heritage, i don't know the right word x.x i am sure there is someone witjna business to watch them.
And they have already become a nuisance for local farmers.
First i thought it's Emden because of the Kanals, but there are no pickles!
Finally you have been in Eastgermany
Kahnfart😂😂:P
I would've thought einzigartig is unique enough even without the superlative ... ;)
Deutsche Sprache, schwere Sprache 😂😅
I agree. The positive form of adjectives is adequate to describe your impressions. Comparative and superlative forms are unable to describe the equal beautyness all over the world. 😉
Ok, maybe two useful suggestions: Have you heard of Völklinger Hütte? Its an old steal factory(?) and an official UNESCO world heritage. Its pretty close to your area. My other idea might be a bit weird. There is a huge bunker system called Maginot Linie. I am not sure if that's something for you guys but I thought its worth mentioning. 👍
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@@Astrofrank :P Thx
@@DullyKrautheimer Always glad to help. Btw: In addition to your first suggestion (die hatte ich gar nicht auf dem Plan, ist aber eine gute Idee!), what do you think of Schiffshebewerk Henrichenburg and the Wuppertaler Schwebebahn, as they are also technical - unique enough? And what about a visit to Garzweiler and Hambach?
@@Astrofrank I think these are pretty interesting ideas. But I am not sure if Aubrey and Donnie are into this technical stuff. Let us know guys:). I have never been to Hambach but I know that there are nice places around like the Trifels and Bad Dürkheim with its "Saline". And you can travel along the Weinstraße and taste some good Pfälzer Wine. For that you should consider to have a driver who stays sober.
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Here in Lower Saxony we crown the german potato queen every year
Ill have to check that out! 😃
In der Grundschule war ich kartoffelprinzessin, weil ich die längste Schale von einer Kartoffel abgeschnitten habe 🤣🤣🤣 hab die Papierkrone tatsächlich noch immer.
As of special interest for Americans you could visit the rocket site a Peenemünde, they got a museum there. That is the place, where all that began, what is threatening all of us today.
Not to forget Prora on Rügen. As well as the Rügensche Kleinbahn running there. The Molli not to forget, too.
I'm sure. Werner von Braun, the designer of Saturn V, which took the USA to the moon, built the first successful rockets here.
@@pklausspk No, the very first succesful rocket with liquid fuel has been started by Robert Goddard in 1926 in USA. The first succesful German rocket got into the air at Kummersdorf/Berlin in 1934 of course by Wernher von Braun. The moved to Peenemünde in 1937 to deal with larger scales, which was not possible at Kummersdorf.
Well the Lady is 1. east german and this can happen... 2. she might have misstaken you for a "Rowler" from the Oberlausitz not to far away, which sound like Texans talking german, so there might be some local beef going on ^^.
I've gone through all the comments hoping that someone has explained the weird haystacks, but so far no luck. Ah well...
I did ;)
"These mysterious haystacks you saw all around are... just haystacks :) No more, no less. If you wanna train your German (or test Google Translate) you find some more information here: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieme
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I have received quite a few now 😂
Don't forget the Canadian aboot
The translation for „Kahn“ is barge