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Our first weekend trip was to Kassel,
located 1.5 hours north of Frankfurt.
Its claims to fame are that the Brothers
Grimm lived there for 25 years and that
it has a beautiful park -- shown here! |
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| The Habichtswald (Hawk Forest) below the main
amphitheatre in the Wilhelmshöhe park. The
Habichtswald has over 300m of hiking trails. |
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| A view up to the main amphi-theatre
in the park and the highest point in
the city. In the summer, water cascades down the steps shown here. |
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| The view from the amphitheatre down
the hill into town. There are 449 steps
down to the pool at the bottom (shown
in the photo to the upper left). |
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| Schloss Löwenburg, a castle in the park built in 1801
and modelled after a medieval Scottish castle. |
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