MGF and TF Treffen 2006
Monday August 21
Today we enter Germany - click here
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We leave
Mechelen and travel across Belgium and Holland into Germany and along
the Autobahn to the other side of Cologne where we then drive through
the hills and rivers region of North Rhine Westphalia following the
Sig Valley to the Sauerland and a National Park where we pick up the
Lahn Valley and follow this to Marburg
- an ancient university town.
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 Venice
is known for its thousand bridges, Marburg for its stairs and alleys.
Even Jacob Grimm once said: "I believe there are more steps in the streets
than in the houses.” Crooked, bumpy, angular and steep, such is Marburg’s
Old Upper Town. Here the medieval times are still tangible - you can
see it, you can perceive it with all five senses. That is also how Boris
Pasternak felt: "If only this were a city! But in fact it is a medieval
fairy tale!” Not without reason does Marburg lie today along the German
Fairy Tale Road. |
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A scenic
and interesting drive today covering about 250 miles
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