Goslar & Hahnenklee (30 Apr. 2013)

Every year at night on Apr. 30 across to May 01, there's an activity called the Witches Night, and there's a story about it. In ancient time on Apr. 30, the witches in mountain Harz will celebrate the end of the Winter and welcome the Spring to come with some devils. Until now, the celebration has become a happy ceremony and has been a kind of spreading happiness. And that's why I chose this day to come~! The night of course!

In this city, you'll see most of the houses were built before 1850, so it's a kind of special attraction of this city, so... enjoy!

The Goslar Bahnhof was small but look nice.

Hameln (30 Apr. 2013)

Hameln, the hometown of Grimms' Fairy Tales "Pied Piper of Hamelin". It's a very small town and you can take just 2~3 hours to finish the tour. I recommend you to come in the morning after 10 o'clock, and then you can visit the town with a very slow tempo. Here, you can see rats everywhere... not the real one of course! And many of the signs were very interesting, too!

Hameln Hbf

Wolfsburg: die Autostadt (29 Apr. 2013)

On 29 Apr. 2013, it was a car city day! When you take off the train at Wolfsburg, you'll see the factory just in front of you. It's telling you that you're in Wolfsburg, die Autostadt.
As the name said, it's a city of cars. Here, you can spend all day long in the museum because the museum is... almost the entire city I think! Although it might be too overstated but the museum is really big!!!
The best part of the museum is that there were a lot of interactions much much more than other car museums, and they have more exhibition cars that you can touch and sit into it. Oh! I really like the buildings here, and you can see the views here were just like the 2010 International Flora Expo in Taipei.

die Autostadt

You'll see the factory which has four chimneys when you're at Wolfsburg Hbf.

Göttingen (28 Apr. 2013)

Göttingen, a nice small but cute town in Germany. Walking along the streets, I felt comfortable just like I was part of the city.

Göttingen Hbf

Kassel (27 Apr. 2013)

Took off the train, I stunned. The temperature was quite low I believed! I checked it and it was true......only about 5 degree Celsius..... The weather in Europe is really unstable...@@

Kassel Hbf, the decoration was quite interesting.

Uh....I don't know why there's a statue which a man walking on it just in front of the station.

Marburg (27 Apr. 2013)

I found that every place related to the Brothers Grimm were all raining when I got there, even in Kassel later ...T^T My fairy tale trip was so..........Mmmmmm.....= =|||

The downtown is a little bit away from the train station, so you have to walk for about 15 mins to get there. Unfortunately, the station didn't have the luggage room!!!!! Are you kidding???? I was thinking, "It was raining...", "Do I have to bear my 15kg backbag(or even more) to walk through the mountain town in such a bad weather?", "Can't I just leave and go to Kassel?",...... blablalba, many thoughts emerged into my mind. In the end, I still visited the town with my BIG backbag......

Marburg Bahnhof

Frankfurt (24~26 Apr. 2013)

Frankfurt is a big city in Germany, and many centers of economic company are located here, so you can see the tempo here is faster than many other cities in Germany.

Frankfurt Hbf

Hanau & Steinau (26 Apr. 2013)

Hanau and Steinau were both a place not far from Frankfurt, it would be nice to visit if you have interest in The Brothers Grimm.

Unfortunately, the time I chose and the weather were both bad this day. I found Hanau was under construction everywhere near the tourist attractions when I got there, and the weather was raining all day long included Frankfurt. In the end, I only took some pictures in front of the Hanau and left right away heading to Steinau.

Trier (24 Apr. 2013)

The weather was great in Trier. It's a city at the boundary of Southwest Germany. Since the location is a little bit far from the main city of Germany, not many foreign visitors come here. However, it's still a nice city to go if you have time. Here, you can see some remains of Rome, like 

Trier Hbf

Porta Nigra, which you'll see walking along with the road straight ahead from Hbf

Luxembourg (23 Apr. 2013)

I left Paris before 9 and got Luxembourg at 11, which was very fast for me.

Luxembourg was smaller than I thought!!!This city, or I could even say the entire country is very small, which the land area has only 2586 km^2 and has only about 500 thousands people citizens!!!!
There's an interesting part is that they can speak three languages in such a small country because of the historic reason!!!! Luxembourgish, French, and German. Cool isn't it!? So visiting in here, you'll here at least four kinds of languages at the same time!! (including English for many tourists of course)

Luxembourg Hbf

the hostel I lived

the interesting part is that there's a table tennis table in front of the entry...XDDD

my room

the view from my room

Soon, I started my walking trip in such a little city, which only took me about 3 hours......

Pétrusse Valley

there were few people on most of the streets

but in this street, also the shopping road in Luxembourg because there were many famous brands stores.

in Luxembourg, you can see most of the motorcycles are the kind like this........

and..........this.

walking on the Pont Adolphe, a famous bridge in Luxembourg.

under the bridge

Pont Adolphe

the stream in the valley was very small, just like this......

I like the way walls are.

Where was it heading to?

It's an art gallery and also the elevator up and down next to the  valley so that you won't have to climb the steep slope.

Place d'Armes, a qsuare

Place Guillaume II, quite a lively square!!

Palais Grand Ducal

the stand guards

Musées de la Ville de Luxembourg, which was very boring for me...... I came out soon.

After all these places, I went to Casememates du Bock. The bock, is was the most famous tourist attraction in Luxembourg, was quite cold, dark, and very scary in some places, especially for only one person in it..............

I didn't know why these two ducks were here....watching the view..............

like this?

Casememates du Bock

I didn't know why the bock has to put such a strange and scary color here................
I ran out in the end....yes, "RAN"!!!

It was only 4 p.m. after the trip, I went back to hostel and took a rest until 8:45 p.m. since I wanted to see the night view here. The night this day had a soccer game, Bayern v.s. Barcelona. Every TV I saw in the bar or restaurant were all broadcasting the soccer game!!!!!! So crazy it was!!!! And...........I was part of them after all....XDDDD

Delicoius dinner with great game was totally perfect~~~!!!!!!

The dinner bier + main dish + dissert total was only 15.9 euros, so cheap~~~!!!!!

There were some stores still opened after 10 p.m.!!

Back to hostel, everyone, mostly German, in the bar in the hostel were all watching the game~!!

In the end, 4:0 Bayern won of course~~!! Haha~~~!!!

Luxembourg, and old country but also nice for visiting for 1/2~1 day.