About a month ago Germany had the Herbstferien, or Autumn holidays. Because schools over here start so early in the year, compared to England at least, they also have a large Autumn holiday as well as a break over Christmas in order to break up the school year. Which meant that when my friends at home had barely been back at university for a week, I was off having a glorious two week break. I ended up spending a week of it doing absolutely nothing, and by absolutely nothing I mean absolutely nothing - sleeping in late, making stacks of pancakes and eating them in bed and watching the usual ridiculous amounts of television. Before you all take utter pity on me for my boring and lazy lifestyle, I did take the opportunity to spend the second half of the holidays interrailing around Germany with three other girls. We went all the way across the country in an epic eight-hour train ride to Dresden, which was cold, raining and rather dreary, but which also boasted some of the most beautiful architecture I'd seen since being in Germany. It's a sad fact that a lot of Germany was destroyed during the Second World War, which makes it unlike any other country I've ever been to - there's barely anything authentically old anywhere. Even though a lot of what we saw in Dresden was rebuilt copies of what had existed before, it was so well done that it still looked wonderful. As well as Dresden we also popped down to Munich, which was a gorgeous city I wished I could have spent much much more time in, and Lake Constance which was just breathtaking. Here are some of the snaps I took :)
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Aw so lovely. I went to Germany for the first time this year but everyone tells me Berlin isn't really like the rest of Germany anyway, but the contrast between the West where they tried to make everything look old & the East where they didn't was really interesting.
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