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Travel 1930s style
Rucksack tour
In 1936 we find our friends on a walking holiday in Germany, in the Alps and Black Forest. They stay in youth hostels and visit Freiburg. The scenery is beautiful but there are signs of impending doom (for the modern-day observer) in the swastikas hung in city streets and on alpine guest-houses.
 Ravenna Viaduct |  Hirschsprung |
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 Ravenna ViaductThis photo is unlabelled but is clearly the Ravenna viaduct again |  Hoellsteig |
 Löffeltal Hoelsteig-HinterzartenThe Löffeltalweg leads between these two villages |  Feldberg |
 FeldbergLabelled "Felberg" but clearly an error |  Hinterzarten |
 Ravennaschlucht |  FeldseeLabelled "Feldfee" - an error |
 Posthalde |  Titisee |
 Hirschsprung |  Unlabelled |
 Unlabelled |  Unlabelled |
 HimmelreichThe Gasthaus pictured seems to be still in business today |  Mt Feldberg |
 Mt Feldberg |  Alps |
 Unlabelled |  Unlabelled but from the sign on the building we know this is the Feldberger Hof – a hotel of the same name exists today but is a very different building |
 Unlabelled |  Unlabelled |
 Youth Hostel (G)The use of (G) to denote Germany will recur later in the album |  On hike |
 Youth Hostel (G)Southern Black Forest |  Youth Hostel (G)Southern Black Forest Note the swastika - a sign of the times |
 On hike |  On hike |
 A short halt |  Youth Hostel (G)Southern Black Forest |
 Unlabelled but clearly another shot of Feldberg, seen earlier in the album |  Freiburg (G)They seem to have end their walk in Freiburg where again swastikas are very much in evidence |
 Freiburg (G)Apparently the same street, looking in the opposite direction |  Unlabelled |
 Unlabelled |  Unlabelled |
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