Frankfurt, Germany

see also:

• Berlin, Germany
• Munich and regions, Germany
• Prague

• sunset view from St Bartholomew Cathedral after walking up 328 steps ¹⁾
• sunset View from Lindner Hotel (Main Plaza) ²⁾
• Zeilgalerie shopping centre architecture ³⁾
• Portfoliovervollständigungsbommel architecture ⁴⁾

• Cochem via Rhine valley = 180km, 2h 40m, can return via Limburg, same distance but 2hr drive

• Drachenfels (2-2.5hr drive NW from Frankfurt) and the view from atop “Petersberg” in the Siebengebirge ⁵⁾, and nearby Bonn and Cologne
  • Schloss Drachenfels ⁶⁾
  • beautiful cherry blossom avenue in Heerstreet, Bonn (usually ends 1st week of May) ⁷⁾
  • Post Tower Bonn ⁸⁾
  • beautiful sunset view from Triangle Tower in Cologne ⁹⁾ - best at beginning or end of summer when closes late after sunset
  • bluebell fields Hückelhoven middle - end of April ¹⁰⁾
  • inside the 910AD Limburg Cathedral, Limburg an der Lahn, 80km NW of Frankfurt, 35min by train ¹¹⁾

Cologne

Cologne

Marburg 100km, 1hr drive from Frankfurt

• “Externsteine” (Externstones)
  • Externsteiner Straße, 32805 Horn-Bad Meinberg, 3.5hrs, 250km north-east from Frankfurt ¹²⁾
• Bremen
• Münster

Bremen

Münster

Hanover

Hamburg

• Bingen Forest 70km west
• Eltz Castle, Münstermaifeld
  • 2hr drive, 150km west of Frankfurt
  • best on a autumn foggy morning - get there before sunrise¹³⁾
• Saarschleife, Saar Loop near Mettlach horshoe bend in river ¹⁴⁾
• Saarburg - lovely old town on a river ¹⁵⁾

• Schlangenweg Heidelberg 90km, 1hr drive south of Frankfurt - lovely old bridge at sunset, need to go when blossoms are out ¹⁶⁾
• Stuttgart
  • 2.5hr drive 200km south of Franfurt; 2hr train
  • Schloss Solitude ¹⁷⁾
  • Hohenzollern Castle on top of a hill 50km south of Stuttgart ¹⁸⁾
• Black Forest ¹⁹⁾
  • Guenterfelsen boulders ²⁰⁾
• Lichtenstein Castle

Hohenzollern Castle

Königsee

Nuremberg

• Frankfurt to Munich via Nuremberg = 392km, 3h 42m
  • Dachau is near Munich = 28km, 30 min from Munich
  • the Romantic Road (Romantische Strasse) a beautiful 5 day 360km country drive usually starting in Fussen, 130km SW of Munich (can be started at Wurzburg if travelling from Frankfurt to Munich):
    • Fussen: one of the oldest settlements on the north side of the Alps
    • 1st 40km runs parallel with the jagged limestone peaks through hilly rural countryside
    • monastery village of Rottenbuch
    • historic Landsberg - worth an overnight stay and a night walk through the medieval city
    • Augsburg - catch a free classical concert in the magnificent Golden Hall in Augsburg's city hall
    • Harburg's castle
    • Nordlingen
    • Dinkelsbuhl
    • Rothenburg ob der Tauber - home of a popular Christian museum
    • road winds through Tauber Valley clad with vineyards
    • Bad Mergentheim
    • Wurzburg - a magnificent city, much destroyed in WWII but much has survived, palace of Residenz. the Alte Mainbrucke historic bridge, the dramatic fortress of Marienberg
• Munich to Salzburg = 145km, 1.5h
• Salzburg to Vienna = 295km, 2h 45m
• Vienna to Cesky Krumlov = 200km, 2h 55m
• Cesky Krumlov to Prague = 171km, 2h 11m