Duderstadt: A small town just west of the former border. There is much to see here, especially the well-preserved and maintained timber-framed houses with an impressive variety of artistic detail. I look for and find the “reunification fountain,” a bronze sculpture by the artist Karl Henning Seemann. The sculpture shows a male and a female… Read more A border kaleidoscope, and stories of spunky citizen action
Sorry about the gap in postings – I am learning that blogging while biking is quite a challenge! I am now taking a week or so to catch up and process the experiences and encounters of the last couple of weeks, so you should be seeing more updates in the days to come. Thanks for… Read more More on monks and ponds, and a virtual tour of the border strip
Greetings from the the borderland! – with a few days’ delay because of intermittent internet access. I started the current leg of my expedition in the small town of Ellrich, in the southern foothills of the Harz Mountains – right in the center of Germany. Ellrich sits just east of the former border, which means… Read more Heaven, earth, and hell
Join me* on an expedition along the Green Belt – Germany’s longest, wackiest nature preserve! (and once the “death strip” between East and West Germany) I grew up in a divided country. For forty years, one of the most heavily fortified borders of the world ran across the German landscape like an ugly scar. The… Read more STORIES FROM THE BORDERLAND
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