From May 2020, direct Eurostar trains connect Amsterdam via Rotterdam with London without requiring transfers in Brussels. Cheap deals are often available. On the London to Amsterdam route, trains are price competitive with flying and from May 2020, railway connections will be even faster on the direct Eurostar trains traveling between the UK (London) and … Read more
Brussels, Bruges, Antwerpen, and Ghent have some of the largest and best Christmas markets (Kerstmarkten) in Belgium. Especially the Pleasures of Winter in Brussels and the Snow and Ice Sculptures Festival in Bruges are well worth visiting. Most Christmas markets in Belgium are open on December 24 and 31, Christmas and New Year’s Day but with slightly shorter opening hours.
In 2020, the state museums in Berlin will arrange several special exhibitions to enhance its vast permanent art, historical and cultural collections. The top temporary cultural exhibitions in Berlin in 2020 will include a fresh look at the Germanic tribes in the Rhine region and an examination of the influence of the Late Gothic on … Read more
Raphael’s Madonnas and the Late Gothic are the top exhibitions in the Gemäldegalerie in 2020 but several prints and drawings collections will also draw visitors to Berlin’s Kulturforum. The two top temporary art exhibitions in Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie in 2020 feature six Madonnas by Raphael and the role of Late Gothic in the birth of modernity. … Read more
A critical look at Germanic tribes is the most-interesting temporary exhibition on Berlin’s Museum Island in 2020, although the opening of the Humboldt Forum will be the cultural highlight of the year. The opening of the Humboldt Forum with museums from the Asian Art and Ethnological collection is the main cultural event on Berlin’s Museum … Read more
Special exhibitions in Berlin’s Contemporary Art Museum include artists Katharina Grosse, Michael Schmidt and Pauline Curnier Jardin in addition to the museum’s own extensive collection. In 2020, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin will host a variety of temporary exhibitions of contemporary art. The main exhibition — Magical Soup — draw mostly on … Read more
Welcome to the BRD is an exhibition in Berlin in 2020 on how guest workers from Greece and Italy and finally citizens from the former East Germany were received and perceived in West Germany. Some of the lesser-known national museums in Berlin have excellent collections that are enhanced by special temporary exhibitions making these galleries … Read more
Ryanair has cheap flights from British airports to various cities in Germany with popular Christmas markets including Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, Leipzig, Düsseldorf and Munich. Traveling to the best Christmas markets in Germany from the UK and Ireland is cheap on Ryanair flights to Frankfurt-Hahn, Berlin, Munich, Nuremberg, Weeze, Baden-Baden, Leipzig and Bremen. Ryanair has flights … Read more
Low-cost airline EasyJet flies from London and other UK airports to Christmas markets in Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Dortmund, Stuttgart, and Friedrichshafen. British travelers can enjoy cheap flights on easyJet when traveling to Christmas markets in many German cities. Visiting a German Weihnachtsmarkt has long been popular with British travelers but is now easier and cheaper … Read more
By Car, Train, or Bus to Bavaria’s Passion Play Town Getting to Oberammergau at the Bavarian Alps in Germany is easy by car, train, or bus. Trains run to Munich while local buses go to Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Ettal. Transportation to Oberammergau, famous for its Passion Play performances, is easy both by car and by public … Read more