More than 5,000 small buckets one next to another in a bunch of aisles within one store. The contents: interlocking building bricks. Or Klemmbausteine or Noppensteine, how they are called in Germany. As you might have learned in my Bricky Trouble posting,…
Driving a model landscape or a large model train landscape in Germany is a difficult business: Even if you do a good job – if one compares you to the Hamburg Miniatur Wunderland, you are lost. The best rated attraction…
There was a duplicate reason to visit the European Hansa Museum in Lübeck in late July 2021: apart from the amazing main exhibition, which I reviewed in a separate posting, they drove the temporary exhibition Hanse Steinreich. The name means “Hansa…
Are you currently also fascinated (or disgusted) by the Olympic Games? This posting is about cool sports – even though none of them will lead to a golden medal in Tokyo. During the last one and a half years of…
Northern Germany, especially the East Frisia (Ostfriesland) region in model scale? This is exactly what the Leeraner Miniaturland (liternally: Leer Model Land) is offering to visitors. When my wife and I were traveling in that region, we ran into some marketing for…
Covid-19 has influenced our lifestyle in a historic way, indeed. A lot of things we did love to do are either limited or not possible at all. But that also means that life is changing and people look for other…
A museum with 90 vintage cars and so-called Yountimers might not feel to thrilling. If you add that about half of the car in exhibition are by the Audi brand, this already sounds quite interesting. However, the Siku and Audi-Museum (“Siku and…
What is Germany’s most popular tourist attractions? According to many popular rankings including TripAdvisor, it is neither the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin nor Cologne Cathedral or Castle Neuschwanstein. It is Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg! Never heard of it? It is…