AT#209 - Travel to Eastern Germany

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2009

⏱️ 40 minutes

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The Amateur Traveler talks to Eleonora about visiting eastern Germany. Eleonora grew up in Dresden and starts our tour there with a city restored from the rubble of World War II to one that boasts beautiful baroque architecture. She takes up verbally to the Master’s Gallery and also to the Green Vault in the old palace. She recommends the famous opera house as well as the recent rebuilt Church of Our Lady (Frauenkirche). We climb to the old fortress (Festung Koenigstein) which protected the area. After Dresden Eleonora directs us to the mountains of Saxon Switzerland and to the Oer Mountains with its tradition Christmas wood carvings. From there we go to Leipzig and to Bauzen (capital of a slavic minority – the Sorbs). We make a sobering stop at Buchenwald concentration camp before hiking in the Hatrz Mountains. Then we head north to Saxony-Anhalt where we stop by the oldest chocolate factory in Germany in Helle. Eleonora encourages us to visit the palace of Sanssouci at Postdam and the Hanseatic cities Rostock and Stralsund. While in Eastern Germany we should try Christstollen, Baumkuchen, and Saxon Potato Soup. Two special tips from Eleonora are to visit the Hechtfest multicultural art festival in Dresden and the medieval Christmas market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good
0:08.0	in my passport photo.
0:11.0	Amateur Traveler episode 2009. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about
0:16.3	nostalgia and castles and cake as we go to Eastern Germany. Welcome to the The city one more cafe.
0:25.0	I know that I should be heading home, but maybe not, maybe not
0:31.0	today.
0:32.0	Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen.
0:35.0	Before we get into this week's interview I do have three news stories for you. The
0:38.7	first one coming from the UK. A British businessman has spent 350 pounds to visit every country on earth in record time.
0:49.0	Businessman Kashi's Somedar had to occasionally dodge bullets and bombs in some unstable countries to get
0:55.8	his name in the Guinness Book of World Records.
0:58.7	In the second story, if you've ever been annoyed because when you booked travel online you weren't told up front what the total
1:06.2	fees were, counting taxes and airport fees, then you might applaud the latest decision to find a travel agency called
1:14.3	ultimate fairs $600,000 for failing to disclose those fees.
1:20.1	In another good news item for frequent travelers, a U.S. senator is investigating the airlines
1:25.2	for their practices for frequent flyer miles and why millions of frequent flyer miles are disappearing
1:31.9	without notice from their customers accounts.
1:36.0	For links to all of those news stories and others check out the show notes at amateur traveler.com. I'd like to welcome to the show Elianara who's come to talk to us about Eastern Germany.
1:47.0	Elianara welcome to the show.
1:49.0	Hey Chris.
1:50.0	We actually
1:55.0	we are from the show who talked to us about the Faroe Islands, which is where you actually are right now,
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