Half-day tour to Trakai Castle, Lithuania (07/2019)
I took the public bus from Vilnius to nearby Trakai to visit its famous castle. Trakai is a popular destination due to a beautiful castle built in the 14th century […]
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Among the churches of Vilnius, Lithuania (07/2019)
I left Klaipeda in the early morning and took a bus to the capital of Lithuania: Vilnius. Vilnius is the biggest city of Lithuania with around 600,000 inhabitants. Due to […]
With the ferry from Kiel to Klaipeda, Lithuania (07/2019)
At the end of July, I took the overnight ferry from Kiel across the Baltic Sea to Klaipeda in Lithuania from where I would explore the three Baltic states. The […]
Birding at Rickelsbüller Koog, Germany (10/2018)
After visiting Holnis, the northernmost point along the German Baltic Sea, I visited the northernmost point of the entire German mainland, which is situated within the wetlands of the Rickelsbüller […]
Reaching land’s end at Holnis, Germany (10/2018)
In October, I visited the northernmost point of Germany along the coast of the Baltic Sea. A tiny speck of sand forms the peninsula of Holnis in Schleswig-Holstein. The landscape […]
A weekend in Bremen, Germany (08/2018)
I spent the first weekend of August in the pretty town of Bremen in northern Germany. Even though I always imagined Bremen to be a very beautiful city, I had […]
Germany 2018: Heligoland
Heligoland, Schleswig-Holstein: In early June, I went on a day trip to tiny Heligoland in the middle of the North Sea. Heligoland is a group of two islands located approximately […]
