maycation Rügen

When an island reaches a certain size it loses its islandness when you are in the middle

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maycation Hamburg II

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maycation Hamburg

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maycation Osnabrück

The #Maiwoche, an annual fair in the old city, was decidedly not on the agenda, live music, food stalls, rides, … and loads of people…

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maycation Telgte

Telgte, apart from being the setting of one of Grass' books, is still an important(ish) Marian pilgrimage, think Kevelaer rather than Lourdes.

The town centre could also be across the border in the Netherlands.

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Bremen Cog

Found in the early 1960ies in Bremen, dated to 1380. Reconstructed with the original parts. Exhibited in the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven

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Idiots that we are we, visited a late Roman hill fortification near Zell (Mosel), the Alteburg

It was only 2 km, with half going uphill (duh, hill fort), but it also was 34C

The fort never commanded vistas, it’s off the Moselle overlooking a minor, narrow side valley. Today it is in the middle of a forrest, and if there were no signage you’d pass it by.

But it’s on the way, so to speak, to one of our favourite spots on the bank of the Moselle.

Location: Dill
Height: 354,8
Coordinates: 49,91 - 7,35

Dill is a small village in the south-eastern corner of the Hunsrück. It sits below a castle and huddles on one side of the castle hill.

Friends are part of the organising committee (as seems half the village), so, off we went into the wild (such as it is).

The market is on two, closed off, roads. The stalls huddle between the houses to leave the road (narrow) for emergency access.

In a meadow below the village lies the Heerlager