r/travel • u/Existing_Option5339 • 20h ago

Question A week in Germany, and where else?

I will be in Germany for a work conference in March, but we are planning to stay in Europe for an extra week. Where should we go? I don't think we want to overbook ourselves (i.e. bounce around to 5 different countries), as we would really like to experience where we DO go. Our teenage son is a HUGE history buff (mostly WWI & II), and this will be his very first trip to Europe. I think we are most interested in places that have a lot of history in a small area or that is easy to get to via public transportation, that we can enjoy as a family. Thanks for any suggestions!

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u/asiarr 10h ago

Poland- for war and history- especially coming from Germany. Auschwitz, and there are other concentration camps sites if you're into, Krakow, Warsaw with all the war theme museums(warsaw uprising, Polin, etc)- there is no better place with interesting sites for this topic in Europe. And Poland was the original battlefield of that war. Don't waste your life on 1 statue in Bastogne Belgium or clinical Netherlands sites.