I found Lubeck and Bremen to be perfect for a day-stop

when i was hitch-hiking from Dusseldorf to Hamburg.A lot of people said, i should visit BREMEN. But i have NOT been there.And now, Im going to visit Bremen….
if u r going to North,well…Hamburg! But, i know, that not everybody like it. But, HAMBURG by nigth is MANIFIC/ GREAT!

Hamburg is good for a daytrip or an overnight stop. The city has a lively red light district "Reeperbahn," if that’s your thing. It also has two large lakes in the city center, very close to the Hauptbahnhof. I don’t know about museums and such, but I was there for just a half-day and I found the city to be very cosmopolitan, with lots of young people on the streets and biking through the city parks.

Bremen is smaller and quieter but also worth a stop. Beck’s Brewery, a nice city park with windmills, and a nice old town with perhaps the most beautiful Rathaus (city hall) in Germany. Supposedly, an allied bomber who was supposed to destroy the building couldn’t go through with it, although I heard a similar story about Notre Dame Cathedral as well….

I also recommend Nuremburg, halfway between Frankfurt and Munich. Except for Christmas time, the city has very few non-German tourists, and is one of Germany’s best-kept secrets. Pound-for-pound, it may even be my favorite city in Deutschland! You have a beautiful walled old town, meticulously rebuilt to look like it did before WWII. You have a hilltop castle overlooking the city below. You have no fewer than 3 beautiful Gothic churches. You have the best train museum (Verkehrsmuseum) I’ve ever seen. You have some of the friendliest locals anywhere. And you have Nuremburg sausages, one of the tastiest treats in all of Europe!

I haven’t been to Dresden….

you make consider the towns along the romantic road, between Wuzburg and Fussen. I recommend you to stay at least one night in the town of Rothenburg which is considered the The Best Preserved Medieval Town In Germany. If you like History don’t miss the guided tour with the night watchman, it starts around 7: 00 pm right in front of the clok tower in the main squre. You will enjoy all the stories and historical facts about the city as you walk through the stone streets of the town. the rest of the towns are also interesting but definitelly you have to spend a least a night in Rothenburgh.

I myself am wery fondly of Duisburg. We have Duisburg koffee, many traditional German beer halls, and much gays night life. Its a realgoodtreat MMMMHH! Und we have a kino with wery nice films. Allesklar? Good, allesklar.

I’ll second a recommendation for Nurnberg. Lette’m Sleep is a decent hostel as well. BTW, even during the Christmas markets, it was mostly German tourists.

Rothenburg is recoomended for first timers.

If you are spending time in Munich (which i assume you are), take a day or 2-day trip to the town of Starnburg, about half an hour to the south by car. It is a beautiful little town located on Starnburg See (Translation: Starnburg Lake), with a picturesque waterfront and faint views of the Bavarian Alps. If the Alps tempt you-take a jaunt to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, a couple of hours south, right in the heart of the Bavarian Alps.

thank you all for your suggestions. if anyone is going to be around those places nov/dec, it may be cool to meet up and travel together.if you’re interested, my email is rena@baldandsexy.com thanks again! danke!

Here a map with enchanting small cities and towns in Germany:
http://www.germany-t…

Cultural and historicall stuff + good night life
Dresden falls certainly in this category.
My personal favorite is Bamberg:
www.bamberg.info

Hannover:
Not really a tourist center. But OK as a base for some day trips in the region.
http://www.tourismus…

Friedrichshafen is at lake Constance – a major tourist region. But Nov./Dec. is definitly off season there. Excellent is the www.zeppelin-museum…. in Friedrichshafen.
http://www.friedrich…

A must for Nov./Dec. are the christmast markets. E.g. the one in Nuremberg
http://www.christkin…
more:
http://www.open-eye-…

Berlin, Munchen, Regensburg, Garmisch-Part., Nuremburg, Rostock, and Koln…
I cannot comment on most of the cities located in the former E. Germany…

I can.

Leipzig, Dresden, and Gdansk(I know it’s Poland, but it is a great, former German city with a tumultuous past).

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Thank you for lincks! They are good informations!

Rothenberg (ob der Tauber) is a must! It is touristy, but even the Germans come to see it. Google "Romantic Road" (Romantische Strasse, I think in German). Gasthof Goldener Greifen is a good place in town (actually in a former mayor’s 600 year-old house) within the city walls. Versy reasonable and always clean and welcoming.

Also check out Dinkelsbuhl on the RR.

Bremen, of course…

Lindau (down from Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance/Bodensee) is a beutiful old former free imperial city on an island in a great lake that forms part of the border between Germany and Switzerland. Over the lake you can see the Swiss Alps from Lindau. Drink the wine and eat the apples!

Once you are this far south you might as well head into SWITZERLAND…

Oh the mountains…

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