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Giulia Scarpaleggia's avatar

How beautiful!! You really made me want to travel to Germany to enjoy there beautiful flowers

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Christie Dietz's avatar

What a lovely thing to read, thank you so much Giulia!!

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Marta Lalibretaroja📕's avatar

Lovely to read you again! and looking forward to the spring in Germany!

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Christie Dietz's avatar

Thank you so much, what a kind comment - and me too!

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Georgi T's avatar

Nicely written! I enjoyed it!

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Christie Dietz's avatar

Thank you very much, Georgi!

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Cire Idle's avatar

The €49 ticket was a dream (literally). I rode all over Germany—sizing up castles for zombie-proofness, drinking warm beer from street fountains, dancing Schuhplattler on wood-beamed barns at midnight (with a large-boobed serving girl)…

— by which I mean: I took the train once to a zoo in Gelsenkirchen (closed), and once to Frankfurt airport (which took 3 transfers and nearly 7 hours before I cracked and paid €250 to escape via ICE).

Local trains: eternal, wandering, punishing.

Still, I saw ghosts in Hattingen and wrote about war dreams in Nuremberg — so maybe it worked.

Long live the locals.

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