We will be living in Fulda for 6 months while my husband is a lecturer at the University. We will have long weekends to travel and also 10 days over the Christmas holiday and two-three 5-7 day open dates in mid-Feb and March. We have been to Fulda 3 times and have traveled the Romantic Road and Bavaria but know there is much more to see and do. Any suggestions for long weekend trips by train or auto would be appreciated. We do want to go to Prague, Slovenia, Venice, Vienna, Berlin, somewhere in Switzerland, other places in Austria (have been to Salzburg). For our longer trips, we are looking at Rome and Almafi Coast; Athens and Instanbul; and maybe Christmas holdays somewhere warm; maybe the coast of Spain. We are looking foward to living in Fulda and our travels in Europe. My request for information is somewhat different than the posts I have read. If anyone has a website that is geared to persons living in Germany and traveling, I would appreciate the information. Danke
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I think one of the best things you can do is avail yourself of all the free information of the tourist offices. Fulda, other German cities, the German state it%26#39;s in, and various German regions all have tourist offices that provide mostly free excellent brochures, etc. and you can also ask them questions either in person or by e-mail. I also would visit a bookstore and buy tri-lingual (Gewrman, French, English) picture books of the surrounding areas, there are all sorts of them. Then you can see pictures of places you might like to visit and can prioritize them.
Another good thing is to purchase one or a few maps in the large scale (1 in is about 4 miles) %26quot;Die Shell Regional Karte%26quot; map series of Germany, with 18 maps covering the whole country. One map is all that is needed to have months%26#39; or years%26#39; worth of good places to visit. ALL rural roads, interesting towns, churches, intact or ruins of churches, palcaes, monasteries and castles, waterfalls, vista points, caves, scenic drives, rivers, or valleys, etc. are shown, with the better being highlighted in yellow if cultural and green if scenic, and the best also having a box around them. Even non-highlighted places can be excellent to visit. Also the railroad and train stations are shown, as well as those parts of roads subject to traffic jams.
For longert trips about Europe, there are many discount airlines, unfortunately Fulda is probably poorly located for using them. Some possible airports to use are Stuttgart, Bonn/Cologne, and Duesseldorf. Visit GermanWings at www.germanwings.com and sign up to be advised of their flight specials, sometimes even for free. They use both the Stuttgart and Bonn/Cologne airports as hubs. However, to visit interesting places you don%26#39;t have to go far from Fulda, as I mentioned before, there are months%26#39; worth of good places nearby.
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join the whinging expats at
www.toytowngermany.com
apart from constant german-bashing they do have a wealth of information about living in G and traveling europe.
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I%26#39;m an American expat that%26#39;s now lived in Germany almost four years. After I recently visited toytowngermany I decided it held little of interest for me. To me it mainly represented people who still largely thought like Americans when it comes to travel, as the original poster does. Although I understand the desire to travel to distant locations to see things, as I have done and still do, it really is a shame to overlook all the excellent things close to where you live. After you start investigating the more local things you should see all the great places you are missing going to those distant destinations where you will experience fellow American and other tourists and not the %26quot;real%26quot; whatever country.
Do, however, visit Istanbul for at least a week, my favorite city in Europe which Americans should find exotic.
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