The text was written by Valentina, 10, who traveled with us in the company of her parents in July this year on an 11-day tour of Germany, designed for the whole family. Here, she tells what she saw and what she learned.
“I loved this trip. I learned a lot about the history of Germany, ate good food, visited cool places.
As soon as I arrived, I went to Rothenburg, where there was a huge Christmas store that is open all year. The houses in the city were beautiful!
Then I went to a castle hotel, which had a beautiful garden. Nearby, there was a winery with delicious grape juice.
In Hamburg, I went to the Philharmonic, which had very different escalators that curved. There is also a port there, and I tasted very good fish.
In Berlin, I spent the first day learning a little about the city’s history. On the other days, my parents and I strolled there, and we went to a zoo where there were pandas, wolves, a polar bear, and so on. On the last day, we had dinner in parliament, and I loved it.
During the trip, I also visited several small towns, each with something different. A store where everything is marzipan, a half-meter sausage, a cable car, a library. I also visited a tea and chocolate shop, ate Greek food, ate Schnitzel (which I actually loved), and got to know cities with cool stories, like a city that was saved by children and the city of Bremen, where the musicians’ story came from.
I also visited many museums, many castles (and one of them who was telling the story was a laundress!) And many churches (mostly Lutherans), and I was lucky that four of them had organs playing.
I used various means of transport, being the whole trip: train, subway, car (and a very big car that looked like a van), boat, ferry, bus, and we went and returned to Germany by plane.
I loved the trip, it was an incredible experience, and one day I want to go back to Germany.
Valentina”
We would like to thank Valentina with great affection for the sincere and spontaneous text, and to the family, for encouraging writing, knowledge, and for authorizing the use of images.
* The whole text was written by Valentina. Only the captions of the photos were added by us.