It is now exactly one week ago, when I tried to escape my duties at home for university and travelled into the so called ‘Ruhrpott’ to Dortmund (located close to Cologne). With this visit I continued visiting friends who turned their back on their hometown and moved some where else to study.

DO-Travel-Insight No.1: I desperately need a navigation system.

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The year 2009 is coming to its end. Tonight I will be sitting together with my closest friends, having a buffet, drinking beer and simply sitting together, celebrating into the new year. Towards the end of the year, you can find many flashback shows, articles and stories all over the place. In this blog, you’ll also be getting one. But not the ones you have seen so far. This is my personal flashback of the year, what delighted me, what got me upset, and mostly the answer to the question: “Chrissara, how was your year 2009?”
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At least there is one good thing about friends studying all over the country – you have a reason to visit them and the cities itself. Which for my part I think we do far too seldom. We travel to all these different, foreign countries and totally forget about the country we live in. Many of us probably do not know much about the country we live in, or have seen many places within it. The last four days I took off to Germany’s capitol: Berlin.

My last visit to Berlin is a few years back, so I wanted to see all the “important” sights again. Continue reading “A visit to the German capitol”