David Grajal

This was my first weekend with Spanish people since I’m living in Germany! Clérigo was hosting Antonio and Raquel for a weekend and we decided to go on a cultural road trip together. The plan was to visit Weimar, an important touristic city that neither of us had never visited. The five of us met together on Fulda.

Jumping@Fulda with random Germans

We chose the most exciting day because Fulda was hosting a concentration of right wing political parties and the entire city was dominated by police. We just ignored all the creepy Nazi and anti-Nazi people and focused on the city itself. The cathedral and the residence was interesting and we saw the most beautiful-baroque-style statue in Germany.

Weimar is considered the cultural hearth of Germany and the place where Goethe and Schiller lived. Goethe for Germans is as important as Shakespeare for English people or Cervantes for Spanish people. The city is full of museums and places dedicated to those two important guys that lived here. We visited the (boring) Goethe’s house and we walk all around the city.

On our way back, we all visited Würzburg. It was my first time as host in my city but we didn’t have a time to stroll on the city so we just went directly to Marienberg Fortress to have a general view of the city.

All the cities in Germany are full of parks and gardens. Late fall is the best time to visit them because everything is covered with yellow leaves and the trees have beautiful colors. Würzburg is even better because the vineyards that surround the city become yellowish and the city radiates a different, warmer light.

I liked Fulda and Weimar but I’ve living here enough time to realize that all German cities on the south look the same. I will not visit more German cities in this area because I don’t enjoy them anymore.