When visiting Berlin and surroundings you easily miss something, as there is so much to visit. Potsdam (two parks with palaces), Rheinsberg, Schönhausen, but also Berlin itself has its palaces. The most known is probably the Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin-Charlottenburg, the biggest and most important palace in the city. It was one of the most […]
Take your time when visiting Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. When I visited with a few friends in April 2008, we took the train from London Waterloo to Portsmouth, then the boat and in the end a bus. That way you really need a whole day for the visit, surely when you want […]
If you’re in London, the weather is nice and you want to get away from the crowds, I can only recommend a visit to Kew Gardens and Kew Palace. I went there in 2006 after several days of terrible heath, when the weather finally started to get normal again. I loved it strolling through the […]
Not far from the Evenburg Castle in Leer-Loga you can find the Philippsburg Castle, the last grander building from before 1744, the year that East Frisia lost its independency. The castle was built in 1730 in Dutch style as residence of Freiherr Philipp von Wedel, wo named the building after himself. He also had a, […]
In an earlier post I mentioned that there are no less than four castles in the small town of Leer, East Frisia, Germany. In December I traced the Haneburg already. On Friday I did find the other three. Unfortunately the Harderwykenburg, situated near the centre, is hidden behind trees and fences. And I decided to […]
Huis Bergh in ‘s-Heerenberg, the Netherlands, is the ancestral castle of the Counts van den Bergh. It is one of the largest Dutch castles. I visited the castle with friends a few weeks ago. The medieval castle is surrounded by a moat and partly by an embankment. There isn’t that much known about the building […]
Early May I spent some days in London, Great Britain. I met with one of my royalty friends on one of these days for a visit to Hever Castle and Penshurst Place. Unfortunately we had really British weather. In between the rain showers however we even managed to see the gardens. Hever Castle in Hever, […]
In Germany, just about three kilometres across the Dutch border the Fürsten zu Salm-Salm have their main residence: Wasserburg Anholt (moated castle). For years this castle has been on my list of castles I once wanted to visit. Some weeks ago I had another look how to get there. Well, you either go by train […]
Palace of Herrenhausen
If you ever visit Hannover you shouldn’t miss the Herrenhäuser Gärten, especially not in the Spring and Summer. The place where Prince Ernst August von Hannover Jr and Ekaterina Malysheva today will hold a reception after their wedding in the Marktkirche in Hannover is a beautiful place. I have no idea where in the gardens […]
There are places that can be hard to visit. Somehow every time I was in London, had time and thought of it, the Banqueting House was closed. This year before visiting London I made a list of places I had never been to. The Banqueting House was high on my list. The place is supposed […]
