Witch Abroad

Berlin

Berlin was the second last stop on my way back to New Zealand. We made a two-day visit in the city. Berlin is big, on everything. The landscape, the culture and the politics. Roland detailed planned trips to the hotel, to different sight seeing sites and to Tegel airport. It always takes a while in the train to get to the places. I didn't see much German things around (I mean things make me think typically German), maybe because it was covered by the Wall and War. It's impossible for a tourist to miss out or feel less heavy what history Berlin carries. There are postcards about the Wall and War in the shops and posters on the streets. It reminds me of China: we have similar TV programs every now and then to tell people what we went through in the Anti-Japanese War, so that we shall not forget and forgive - there are unsolved issues.

Kaltenberg

We planned to hike even before I got to Germany. The original plan was to hike for 5 days in Swizerland. But then we were travelling around, and that made us become less energetic by the time it was to carry out the plan. Also because we didn't prepare early, we finally decided to go to Austria instead as it is close. As the tracks are in the Alpes, we will need to climb 800m to 1350m per day. We therefore shortened the trip to a 3-day day trips from the same hut. I just can't imagine I can climb 1000m on average per day for 5 days. However, the trip turned out to be the greatest trip in my journey.

Flower Island

Flower Island is in Konstanz too. Normally namelly there are lots of flowers. This time especially many because of the Dalia exhibition. I'd never seen so many Dalias.

Meersburg

Meersburg is a castle of the fortress type. The owner of the castle is a Duke or Count still living in the castle's private sector. Once before one of his ancestors had a sister-in-law who was a famous German poet. Blame my bad memory, I don't remember her name.