Rick Steves Germany 2015
Rick Steves
Language: English
Pages: 1093
ISBN: 1612389708
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Germany.
This guidebook takes you from fairy-tale castles, alpine forests, and quaint villages to the energetic Germany of today. Get the details on cruising the romantic Rhine or summiting the Zugspitze. Have a relaxing soak at a Black Forest mineral spa or take an exhilarating summer bobsled ride in the Bavarian Alps. Flash back to Berlin’s turbulent past at Checkpoint Charlie; then celebrate the rebirth of Dresden and its glorious Frauenkirche.
Rick’s candid, humorous advice will guide you to good-value hotels and restaurants. He’ll help you plan where to go and what to see, depending on the length of your trip. You’ll learn which sights are worth your time and money, and how to get around Germany by train, bus, and car. More than just reviews and directions, a Rick Steves guidebook is a tour guide in your pocket.
chapter). Gray Line Tours offers rushed all-day bus tours of Neuschwanstein that also include Ludwig’s Linderhof Castle and 30 minutes in Oberammergau (€51, €7 Rick Steves discount if you buy your ticket at EurAide—cash only, two castle admissions-€23 extra, daily all year, www.sightseeing-munich.com). Tours meet at 8:10 and depart at 8:30 from the Karstadt department store (across from the station). While tours are designed to be in both English and German, if groups are large they may split
his Neuschwanstein Castle). Eisenach Connections From Eisenach by Train to: Erfurt (2/hour, 30 minutes on IC or ICE train, 45 minutes on regional train), Leipzig (hourly, 2-2.5 hours), Wittenberg (every 2 hours, 2.5 hours, most transfer in Naumburg; also possible in 3 hours with additional changes), Frankfurt (hourly, 2 hours), Würzburg (hourly, 2 hours, transfer in Fulda). Train info: Tel. 0180-599-6633, www.bahn.de. Wittenberg You need only look at its official name—Lutherstadt
& Sauber Waschcenter chain has a location in Prenzlauer Berg (daily 6:00-23:00, exact change required, Oderberger Strasse 1). Shell Games: Believe it or not, there are still enough idiots on the street to keep the con men with their shell games in business. Don’t be foolish enough to engage with any gambling on the street. Updates to This Book: For updates to this book, check www.ricksteves.com/update. GETTING AROUND BERLIN The city is vast. Berlin’s sights spread far and wide. Right from the
notorious Nazi book burning. It was on this square in 1933 that staff and students from the university threw 20,000 newly forbidden books (authored by Einstein, Hemmingway, Freud, and T. S. Eliot, among others) into a huge bonfire on the orders of the Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels. In fact, Goebbels himself tossed books onto the fire, condemning writers to the flames. He declared, “The era of extreme Jewish intellectualism has come to an end, and the German revolution has again opened
produced free, self-guided audio tours of the top sights in Munich, Berlin, Salzburg, and along the Rhine River. All of this audio content is available for free at Rick Steves Audio Europe, an extensive online library organized by destination. Choose whatever interests you, and download it for free via the Rick Steves Audio Europe smartphone app, www.ricksteves.com/audioeurope, iTunes, or Google Play. Begin Your Trip at www.RickSteves.com My website is the place to explore Europe. You’ll find