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Guests most welcome: Kuhnle-Tours' Indian Summer
This is the most beautiful season for a boating holiday on the Mecklenburg lakes, not far north of Berlin: the sun is warm, the colours are moving from green to red, and there’s infinite peace on the water. Our experience of September and October is of many hours of sunshine and temperatures around 20 degrees. The sunsets are magnificent, especially when reflected in the lakes – and snuggled in a blanket on deck. This is the time to let your mind rest, and gather strength for the winter ahead. There's peace of mind in the prices, too, which start from just €141 per night.
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Guests most welcome: When the onion rules in Weimar
Since 1653, Weimar has been welcoming guests to its annual
Onion Market. It's a unique feast for the senses, which transforms the charming town into one big market featuring music, dance, food and drink. Always taking place on the second weekend of October (9-11 Oct 2015), the market is in its 362nd edition this year and again, more than 300,000 visitors are expected over the three days. Everything revolves around the humble onion, and the stars of the festival are the onion farmers from nearby Heldrungen: their braids of purple and yellow onions decorated with field flowers are sold at about 100 stalls. There’s also lots of delicious food featuring onions such as the classic
Zwiebelkuchen, a savoury tarte made with bacon and onions. Onions, of course, also feature in the crown worn by the Onion Queen who takes up her role for a whole year.
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Guests most welcome: Leipzig reaches out to Yuccies
Leipzig is reinforcing its cutting edge reputation this autumn by welcoming delegates to the GRASSIMESSE and its offshoot the Designers’ Open
(23-25 Oct 2015). Despite the unconvincing name, the GRASSIMESSE is an international forum of contemporary applied art and experimental design. Meanwhile, the Designers' Open, originally part of GRASSIMESSE and held over the same period, is today a well-established independent design festival, a place for the newest trends in fashion, product, industrial and communication design, as well as architecture. Outside of the festival dates, Leipzig’s post-industrial Plagwitz district is turning into a true haven for Yuccies - Young Urban Creatives.
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Guests most welcome: Regensburg's cultural weekend
Regensburg has introduced a three day package (from €319 per person) which is designed to showcase exactly why this ancent river crossing on the Danube has become a UNESCO World Heritage city. Besides entry to the Historical Museum, the Municipal Gallery and the Kepler Museum, the package includes lunch in the “Historische Wurstkuchl”, the world’s oldest sausage kitchen, and a three course dinner at the Ratskeller. A real treat is the Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, the most distinguished art gallery in East Bavaria, preserving the artistic inheritance of the former areas of German influence in Eastern Europe, with some 2,500 paintings and sculptures.
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Picture Credits
Masthead left to right, T top, B bottom: Black Forest gone blue, Achim Mende. Brandenburger Hof hotel. Schloss Lübbenau (T). Bundesliga, GNTB (B). Ski lift at Fichtelberg, Oberwiesenthal Tourism (T). Martin Luther (B). Chilled gnome, DZT (T). Rügen cliffs, GNTB (B). Cherry cake, pa (B). Berlin S-Bahn
Main images: Kuhnle-Tours; Weimar: Anja Dietrich weimar GmbH; Leipzig: Leipziger Messe/Tom Schulze; Regensburg: Regensburg Tourismus GmbH
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