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April 19th, 2007, 04:22 PM
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'Visit Bavaria'
A beautiful full-colour pull-out supplement appeared today in UK National newspapers : 'Visit Bavaria - Summer 2007' sponsored by the German National Tourist Office.
The intro extols many of Bavaria's undoubted highlights ; food, beer, the Alps, the Christkindlesmarkt, and finishes with the phrase : 'Wherever you go, whenever you go, you feel the pull of history'.
You sure do - I can vouch for that ! 
A map inside suggests a tour which includes such interesting names as Landsberg, Nuremberg, Regensburg, Munich and, last but not least, Berchtesgaden.
Now, I'm not for a moment suggesting that they'd include a trip to Dachau or Landsberg Prison, but I had to smile that not one word of this 22-page booklet is devoted to a certain era of 20th Century history. I'd be willing to bet that 99% of tourists who go to Berchtesgaden visit the Eagle's Nest - apart from anything else it has the best mountain views in all Bavaria - but this guide won't tell you that it even exists......
A touch of the airbrush here, I think...... 
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April 19th, 2007, 04:38 PM
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Re: 'Visit Bavaria'
Yeah, who knows one day " Uncle Adolf " might be there to guide us...
Anyway, " Visit Bavaria-Summer 1945" the tourists looked pretty happy with the view and drinks...BTW is the medic in the middle about to go skiing or what??
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April 19th, 2007, 06:27 PM
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Re: 'Visit Bavaria'
See what I mean ? I'm 'feeling the pull of history' already.... 
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April 19th, 2007, 06:32 PM
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Re: 'Visit Bavaria'
I read that some of the Eagle nest has been transformed into a Hotel and that you can actually sleep in former Nazi dignitary rooms. That reminds me of the Russians suplying a night in a Goulag with interrogators, cells , dogs and prisonner suits included.....
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April 19th, 2007, 09:47 PM
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Re: 'Visit Bavaria'
When I visit the BMW factory this summer to pick out my matching car and motorcycle I will give you guys a full report.
Gordon can visit the Citroen factory in France and see where his car was born. 
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April 20th, 2007, 07:48 AM
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Re: 'Visit Bavaria'
Ta, you'll have to take along 'MB's Alternative Visit Bavaria' brochure which is currently awaiting approval by the German Tourist Board...... 
It should include a nice motoring tour of such unmissable highlights as : Hitler's cell at Landsberg Prison / Nuremberg Party Rally Grounds / Regensburg Messerschmitt factory / Munich Hofbrauhaus & the Ostaria Restaurant ( Hitler's favourite ) and finishing with a tour of the Berghaus site at Berchtesgaden and tea at the Eagle's Nest.
You will feel the pull of History.....
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April 20th, 2007, 09:42 AM
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Re: 'Visit Bavaria'
To add colour your tour ought to include the Feldherrenhalle with the police shooting at the tourers, as well as a bomb at the Burgerbrakeller.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~gduncan..._attempts.html
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Re: 'Visit Bavaria'
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A touch of the airbrush here, I think...... |
Can't have been written by actual Bavarians, unlike most of Germany they often seem rather keen to chat about their 30's/40's 'heritage'. 
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April 20th, 2007, 12:18 PM
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Re: 'Visit Bavaria'
A few years ago we started a new battlefield tour looking at the final phase of the fighting in NW Euope leading up to the fall of Berlin. I wanted to call it 'Road to the Reich' - excellent says our marketing man, but it was felt that British coaches running round Germany with this logo on the front windscreen might up set a few people... so we had to change the title.
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April 20th, 2007, 04:35 PM
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Couldn't you have changed it to something like 'Destruction Of The Reich', Paul.....?
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April 20th, 2007, 05:01 PM
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Re: 'Visit Bavaria'
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Gordon can visit the Citroen factory in France and see where his car was born. |
...And ask why mine didn't come with the MP40 mount fitted as standard....
I'm in the bad books with the boss of the wedding car firm at the moment....I crashed one his Yank stretched limos into the back of a cement lorry in Aberdeen on Tuesday! |
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So what is the story on the crash ? You were busy trying to take a peek at the bride or you were playing tank commando in the big car ? 
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April 20th, 2007, 05:49 PM
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Err...neither. After negotiating a double roundabout and crossing a bridge towards another one, I was too busy listening to the Sat-Nav to notice the traffic had stopped....
Would never have happened in a decent car like a Citroen..........
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April 20th, 2007, 08:46 PM
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I was too busy listening to the Sat-Nav to notice the traffic had stopped....
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April 20th, 2007, 09:44 PM
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I can vouch for the beauty that is Bavaria. I toured there with a German lady friend of mine back in Sept/Oct 2000. One of my favorite places was when we stayed at Forsthaus Graseck. That would also be a great place to spend a Christmas or two at.
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Re: 'Visit Bavaria'
Actually, I really do love Bavaria as a vacation destination. The Alps in particular are just gorgeous.
But I have to confess that I always seem to find something....er....of historical interest....when I'm there !
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Re: 'Visit Bavaria'
I understand the German point of view. i think most countires would emphasize the beautiful assets they have rather than the painful ones.
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Actually, I really do love Bavaria as a vacation destination. The Alps in particular are just gorgeous.
But I have to confess that I always seem to find something....er....of historical interest....when I'm there ! |
Martin, you sly devil you. ;-D I can imagine you don't get much time to pay attention to the terra firma Alps.
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Re: 'Visit Bavaria'
Bavaria is beautiful and full of history.
Taken from the Heidelberg Schloss (castle) over fifty years apart
The Deutsches Museum in Munich provides a masive amount of historic information
20th century included:
U1: - launched August 4, 1906, commissioned on December 14, 1906 as a test boat in Submarine Flotilla 1.
With the start of WW 1 it was assigned to the the Submarine School in Eckernfoerde as a training boat.
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