Fun parks and recreation

We have spent the last fortnight in Celle, Germany, visiting with my wife's family. It's a town of around 80,000 people in Lower Saxony, in the north of the country. When we're not visiting with family, we're looking for "family...

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Erse Park

(VIDEO)  We just went to Erse Park in Uetze, Germany. This is a fun place with rides, life sized model dinosaurs, and a whole lot of truly weird shit. German fairy tales are clearly meant to frighten children into silence at night...

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German observations

Thoughts on Germany and Germans, from an Australian bloke with a German name and a German wife. The Roads The Germans are much smarter than us about speed limits, which are slower in town and faster on the freeways. Australians, myself...

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Roaming across Europe

Well, a little bit of it, anyway. Five of us - three adults and two children - have stuffed our gear into a VW wagon and made our way from France to Germany, via Italy and Austria. The highway system that links these countries is consistently...

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The old master

Today we walked up the hill, rising from our seedy city neighbourhood through several social strata to the Musee Matisse. Between the museum building itself and the little cafe outside, there's an absolute rarity - empty space. This...

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