Advantages: long history, very interesting, beautiful medieval buildings, easy to explore Disadvantages: ---
...Augsburg, twin town of Inverness can look back on 2000 years of history. Founded in 15 b.C. by Octavian's generals Drusus and Tiberius even today every major construction site reveals details of the then capital of the Roman province of Raetium.
A large exhibition in the Roman Museum can only give a brief look into the first years of the city's history.
Just a few metres away you'll find the Maximilian Street, which dates back to the most important years in Augsburg, when the merchant families Welser and Fugger started their trading imperium, trading gold, spices etc. Augsburg was one of the richest and most powerful cities in Europe at that time. The best silver smiths and producers of armory lived here and exported their goods even up to England. You'll find a large selection of medieval Augsburg silver works in the White Tower...
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...My birthday on 20th January was a day of woe, I´m still trying to come to terms with it. It was a so-called round one which makes friends and acquaintances expect they will be invited to a big party. A party, though, was the last thing I was thinking of, I even didn´t want to have some women friends with me with whom I always have a cuppa and some cake when it´s birthday time. They threatened to come nevertheless, especially as I was alone at the time so I told them I was occupied the following afternoons and would be away for the weekend, when exactly I hadn´t decided yet.
It wasn´t only an excuse, I really felt like going somewhere, the problem was, of course, where. The end of January isn´t exactly peak season when it comes to travelling, isn´t it? I decided on a day out in Augsburg, a town between Stuttgart and Munich.
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Advantages: Beer, beer, beer Disadvantages: Very crowded, not cheap
...one Maß too many, but the queues are normally immense.
Getting to the Oktoberfest is easy enough: Munich is one of the biggest cities in Germany and you can fly there directly with BA, Lufthansa and Go, or fly into Stuttgart or Frankfurt and pick up a direct train down to the Bavarian capital from there. Once at Munich station, there are signs everywhere to tell you how to get to the Oktoberfest, but the underground station you need is Theresienwiese, on the U4 and U5 lines.
However, if you are planning to visit, you need to make plans well in advance – flights and trains are booked solid on all routes to Munich, and the city’s hotels are booked out weeks beforehand. I travelled down with 6 mates, and despite looking for accommodation a month in advance, we had to stay in Augsburg (40 minutes away from Munich by train...
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