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		<title>Exploring the ruins of Wertheim Castle, Germany</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2020 16:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A friend came to visit Würzburg early in March before the coronavirus restrictions started, and we decided to take a day trip to Wertheim am Main, about 40 minutes away by car. Wertheim is in Bavaria&#8217;s neighbouring state of Baden-Württemberg, and is located at the junction of the Main river and its tributary, the Tauber. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Corona Diaries &#8211; Week 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2020 10:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Third week at home under curfew rules, which should last until the 19 April. If they don&#8217;t extend it&#8230; 4 April 2020 (Saturday): The weekends are not representative of my weekdays, obviously, so all of these posts start with the best two days of the week. In the weekends our routine is to take a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Corona diaries &#8211; Week 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2020 17:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Second week of curfew. For the first week, see here. 28 March 2020 (Saturday): Like Friday, Saturday came with awesome weather &#8211; Around 19 degrees Celsius and sunny. After a relatively slow morning, we went for a wonderful long hike that went through vineyards and forests near Würzburg. My husband plotted a circular route that comprised [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Corona diaries &#8211; week 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2020 12:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For how this whole mess started, see my previous post, In the time of Corona. 20 March 2020 (Friday): As expected, our state (Bavaria) declared an &#8220;Ausgangssperre&#8221; (curfew), to begin at midnight on Friday the 20th March. A curfew is a regulation that requires people to stay indoors. Apparently the officials went for these measures [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Easy Banana Bread</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2020 13:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is such an easy recipe, and we make it all the time now to use up overripe bananas. It&#8217;s great for breakfast or as a snack. Ingredients 2 cups flour 2 tsp baking powder pinch of salt 125g butter/margarine 2 eggs 1 cup sugar 3 bananas, mashed with a fork (optional): handful of chopped [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>In the time of Corona</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2020 18:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[These are strange times. I had planned other posts, but it feels impossible to continue with these and ignore the coronavirus pandemic. At the same time, although I am compulsively reading about the coronavirus at the moment, I am also getting tired of hearing about it to the exclusion of everything else. The World Health [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Franconian Kreuzberg and the ruins of Osterburg</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[nn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2020 18:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In January, following our tradition of exploring the hills, we set off for our first hiking outing in  Lower Franconia, the region of Bavaria in which Würzburg is situated. A quick search on Komoot showed us that there are a lot of interesting hikes within about a 60-90 minutes radius of Würzburg. For our first [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Churches of Cologne</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[nn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2020 22:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Step out of Cologne central train station (Köln Hauptbahnhof) and you will find yourself staring up at a towering cathedral: The Dom (Cologne cathedral). Completed in 1880, at 157,4 m high it is the tallest Catholic cathedral in the world, and for a while it was the tallest building in the world. However the Protestants [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>9 Differences between hiking in the Alps and in the Cape</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 09:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Before I came to Germany, I used to spend a lot of time hiking in the Cape mountains in South Africa. Although I&#8217;ve been living in a flat part of Germany, I still travel to the mountains every now and then to satisfy my hiking cravings. I love hiking in both places, but I was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A winter afternoon in Bamberg</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2020 20:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[All German towns are more beautiful in summer (unless covered by a layer of snow), but winter is long, so we though we might as well start doing some sightseeing in our new state despite the grey weather. Bamberg has a reputation for being a particularly picturesque town, so we headed there on a Saturday [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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