If a holiday to the Caribbean country of Dominican Republic is on your agenda, you are most likely thinking of a ‘beach vacation’. Occupying the eastern coast of Hispaniola island and sharing its border with Haiti, another Caribbean jewel, Dominican Republic has the North Atlantic Ocean to its north and the Caribbean Sea to its …
Located in the north-eastern region of the United States, Delaware is the sixth most populous state and is also known as the ‘The First State’. The state is divided into three counties – Sussex, Kent, and New Castle. The state’s coastline was explored in the 16th century by the Europeans. Coined after the river of …
Lower Saxony’s capital is a university city and economic centre that was once the seat of an Imperial Electorate. The royal line, the House of Hanover, gave the United Kingdom three kings, and also gave this city some splendid properties like the Herrenhäuser Gardens. That mosaic of regal parks and palaces is still Hanover’s big …
The cradle of industry in the Ruhr, Oberhausen is a city that didn’t even exist before the 1860s. A joint metallurgy and coalmining venture brought thousands of families, and they settled in communities like Siedlung Eisenheim, one of Germany’s earliest company towns. Heavy industry began to peter out in the 1970s and since then Oberhausen …
The third oldest German city after Neuss and Trier, Augsburg was founded by the Romans in 15BC. The city had always been at the nexus of European trade, but its glory days arrived in Early Modern Age when the Fugger and Welser banking families amassed inconceivable wealth. That gave Augsburg the first Renaissance buildings north …
On the left bank of the Rhine, not far from Düsseldorf, Krefeld is a conurbation of towns incorporated into a city at the start of the 20th century. At that time Krefeld was a booming textiles town with a forte for silk and velvet weaving. Even now, Krefeld is called the “Samt- und Seidenstadt,” velvet …
There are certain things Missouri is famous for. Like being the home of Mark Twain. A barbecue nirvana, it has been called. With some of the best frozen custard in the world. And a red-hot real estate market. The loudest stadium in the world sits here. So does one of the highest turkey populations you …
The capital of Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel is a maritime city in the 17-kilometre Kiel Fjord. That is a huge natural harbour, just the spot for Germany’s Navy to dock its Baltic fleet. The city is also at the eastern lock of the busiest artificial waterway on the planet, the Kiel Canal, tying the North Sea to …
On the Middle Rhine, Bonn is a city that everyone knows for being the capital of West Germany up to 1990. Germany’s current constitution was declared in Bonn in 1949 and many government ministries are still located in the city. Bonn has all the culture of a nation’s capital, not least on its Museum Mile, …
What first comes to mind when Tennessee is mentioned? Birthplace of the blues and home of Elvis Presley? Well, you are not alone. Its musical roots is what many often associate The Volunteer State with – and the Memphis barbecue, of course – but this southern gem of a state is much more than that. …