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Travel: Poetry, drama and beer; Neil Connor came over all Bohemian on a recent trip to central Germany when he followed in the footsteps of the poets, writers and composers of 'The Land of the Thinkers'. However, he found it thirsty work.(Features

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20041002
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Byline: Neil Connor

'Nature!', surmised Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, on one of his many treks around Germany.

'We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her. Without asking, or warning, she snatches us up into her circling dance, and whirls us on until we are tired, and drops us from her arms.'

As with all the great German romantics, Goethe loved the trees, green landscapes and villages of his homeland.

He believed in its cosmic energy, its cleansing and replenishing effect on the human ...

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