travel the new Hobby for everyone – is also convenient: With 60 euros if you fly to Greece and back. Holidays abroad have become so cheap that many overlooked now, what is literally on the doorstep.

And so a trip to Paleokastritsa on Corfu, sounds much better than a trip to the lake in Saxony. Not that you would recognize on the holiday photos with a difference – but still.

traveling abroad before domestic exploration

My grandmother has made your Trouble Recently air and asked, what is this “whole circus”, actually. The people would not be interested at all of the beautiful places in their own country.

It would be for the protection of the environment, would still choose to eat vegan and Green. Then book one, but nevertheless, the cheap flights to all destinations in the world.

Since the holiday is in the year, to little, to come together as a total of four to eight flights. The environment thanks you. fol The author of the text, while on holiday in Saxony.

lack of interest for the new länder

the statistics of the “travel analysis,” the presumption. Of the holiday 2019 goals, 74 per cent went abroad. This corresponds to approximately 52 million trips.

Also I have noticed that many Germans put an amazing Journey of disaffection to the day when it comes to holidays in the heartland – especially in the new länder.

“what Is Jena abroad?”

I was born in the East, and I was surprised at how little some of you are interested in the many cities and natural spectacle.

Not infrequently I am of young people from the old länder at the Mention of my home town of Jena had been asked whether they spent abroad. Hello!? The wall has already fallen more than 30 years ago.

“What am I supposed to be over there?”

But also a lot of Elderly care, which is located in the East, little. Also, since the distance plays no role In the ARD series “On three wheels from Bavaria to the Baltic sea” meets Michael Kessler in the Franconian town of Coburg (on the border to Thuringia) on an old Lord.

This claimed himself that he was never gone in the East. “It has never interested me,” he said with a shrug. On the question of why this was so, he replied: “What am I supposed to be over there?”

More domestic trips through Corona

ouch. Maybe I’m not totally objective, but I can’t find that part of the country in which I grew up, is no worse than the Rest – on the contrary, in My view, there is a Lot to discover.

miles of unspoilt countryside in the Thuringian forest, fairy-tale architecture in Dresden, contemporary art in Leipzig, steep cliffs surrounded by dense forest, in the Harz mountains and the spectacular Elbe Sandstone mountains in the upper reaches of the river Elbe.

I could go on and on so much more…

in General, I am of the opinion that, besides the Standard destinations, with Berlin and the Baltic sea are still very many places that are in (East)Germany see value.

Maybe it’s just good that Corona is forcing us to relocate this year’s holidays, increasingly, the interior of the country. So we have the Chance to see in our own home New.

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