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Article: travel: GEMS OF GERMANY; Gordon Barr on a tour steeped in history.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- September 27, 2008
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Byline: Gordon Barr
IT is nearly two decades since the reunification of Germany, and a whole generation has grown up in a country they have only known as one. Yet Germany's modern history has been nothing if not turbulent, and fascinating.
This trip was not about the former East, but you cannot escape the fact it happened and, just 10 minutes before our first destination of Eisenach.
Eisenach is a quaint little town steeped in history. We stayed at the Eisenacher Hof (www.eisenacherhof.de, doubles from EUR84), about a five-minute walk from the centre. The town has strong links with Martin Luther - founder of the Lutheran Church. It was in the ...