Road Trip Germany Part 1 (Aschaffenburg, Paderborn, Grube Messel)

Join me & Mr. German Man on our summer road trip around Germany! There were certainly lots of interesting things to see along the way :D
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[@YesterchipsMIG]

From Aschaffenburg to Paderborn via Landstraße? Umm... thats just a little bit crazy ^^

[@rbcc_ab]

thx that you like Aschaffenburg...i live there and i find it cute too like you Talk about Germany

[@tinahampel]

greetings from paderborn 👋 so funny to see you there!

[@MelinaH]

omg you were in Paderborn and Bad Lippspringe :o So sad I didn't meet you :(

[@weirdnino7844]

Melina H. Paderbooooorn ❤

[@bellaprincessa88]

I live in the Netherlands, like a 40 minute drive from the border. When i feel really depressed, i jump in the car and to to germany. Germany has such beautiful nature and the houses are pretty. It lightens my whole mood :)

[@aileenfarshivlogs]

I can't wait to do a road trip in Germany. I also love driving through the fields and meadows here. It's just so lovely!

[@MonicaTheMad]

Germany is one big picturesque place when you're not in big cities. Wonderful video, Dana!

[@davidpriest913]

Wow! just seen this. We lived in Paderborn area for a long time to 2008 working for the British Army. Fantastic place, I remember Externsteine as well. Thank you for bringing this one back. Paderborn city centre was really one of the most pretty places I have been and our kids loved it

[@pia5126]

you were literally driving around my area: paderborn, bielefeld, etc ❤️

[@lulus8122]

When I was little I couldn't memorize the word Fachwerkhäuser, so I always said "Guck, die karierten Häuser!" (Look, the checkered houses) when we visited our family in Hessen. They still tease me with it today

[@ensomulv3933]

The "Externsteine" are one of my favourite places in Germany, been there quite a few times. So in love with all the fields and forests of NRW.

[@erickofspirit]

Ah man! You were eating Dönors! I love the Dönor! One of the many favorite things when I was in Germany. When I move there, I'll be so happy to have it again.

[@j.s.4819]

I was born in Paderborn and im proud of being a Paderbornerin!😀 the externsteine are also a good thing to see or go to. Nice to see u enjoyed our city Paderborn.

[@Stintfang]

I have been to the Externsteine myself several years ago and climbed the stairs too... What a remarkable viewing spot... I am glad you were able to see it too.

[@elise_h]

Beautiful video! I love seeing the German towns, it reminds me of the road trip my family took through Germany, Switzerland, and Italy when I was a child. Last year, my husband and our pup took a road trip across 12 US states - Arches National Park and the Rockies were my favorite sites.

[@WantedAdventure]

oooh a 12 state road trip sounds fun!! Glad you enjoyed the video :)

[@sneakyrabbit3465]

I'd love to see Germany. We flew over her for an hour or so while headed to Paris to connect back to the states. I was in awe that Germany was RIGHT BELOW us but so jealous because I didn't actually get to see the country!

[@johnmcconnell9979]

I always used to like going for drives when I lived in Germany many years ago, when I was young, like you!

[@MoveAhead101]

Hello! You might be interested in this: The Pader is the shortest river in Germany. It has several hundred springs, right arround that area where you have been. Actualy there is a bronze figure at every spring in Paderborn. It has two arms, the "cold" and the "warm" pader. The "warm" pader is not really warm, but 1 degree C warmer than the cold pader. Have fun! One tip for your roadtrip: the "Westfalische Landesmuseum" in Detmold. There are several villages in different styles of half-timbered houses. These houses have been brought there, whenever they would have been destroyed otherwise, eg for a building an airport or something like that. Greetings, have fun.

[@xyzxyzx4]

The "warme Pader" in Paderborn is named like this, because it is about 2-3 Degrees warmer then the other arms of the river. Btw: Did you know, its the shortest river in Germany?

[@WantedAdventure]

haha thanks for clearing that up xD

[@andrefritsch]

Thanks for coming to my city. Hope you had a great time at the oldest german city festival libori. Love your videos. Big hugs!

[@nhitnut]

Been to Germany, guess I'm falling in love with Cologne 😊

[@ulrichlehnhardt4293]

I have made several road trips in Germany BUT only thanks to this video I learnt that there are these interesting rocks in the Teuteburger Wald (shame on me, thanks to you). I love driving around in Germany (it is much more beautiful than people think). My favourites: Oberbayern (upper-Bavaria) close to the alps, the Rheinland along the river rhine or driving through the blackforest to the Bodensee - beautiful.

[@WALESBOY21]

I have been to Paderborn on many holidays! I love that city!!I got great friends there!! I'm going back there in September! My third time this year!! I love Germany!!

[@NeinDochOhh]

I was in Regensburg and Bozen (Südtirol) this summer. I really liked these old towns.

[@WantedAdventure]

Regensburg is lovely!! Not Bozen, though.

[@NeinDochOhh]

The Oldtown of Bozen is nice, I think. The surrounding industrial suburbs not so much

[@nafetstube]

Hey, wow, you actually went to Paderborn without letting me know *beforehand*? Incredible! ;-)... It was great to see so many familiar places in one of your videos! Keep up the good work!

[@dominikbatt4459]

It's been a long time since I've been to Aschaffenburg. Thanks for the video.

[@janaaj1an889]

I was stationed in Frankfurt / Giessen / Babenhausen / und Darmstadt long ago. Lovely area. -Jan

[@christinalue9818]

Ahhh i can't believe you went to Bielefeld & Paderborn !! 😍 I lived in Bielefeld for 4 years and am currently living in Paderborn haha 😊 hope you enjoyed both of the cities xx

[@lissalack1490]

Dana, I adore Stefan, he is so cute and I love his accent!

[@juliz2500]

Hey Dana, I love watching your videos! You always radiate an amazing positivity and warmth. You have cheered me up so many times. Thank you and Mister German Man also for taking us on that roadtrip, it's really awesome, I love roadtrips. My favorite part was when you first showed Dana's reaction before actually turning the camera at the rocks, that was a cool special effect :)

[@WantedAdventure]

Thanks so much for your kind comment and positive feedback! I'm happy to hear you're enjoying the videos :) :) Wish you a nice weekend!

[@juliz2500]

Thank you! Same to you :)

[@TomBrunberg]

these are so good videos! We're leaving for a roadtrip across europe next week, getting good hints n tips for our travels!

[@nessy3212]

Hi Dana. I totaly love to make road trips. I say always you have to be a booring couch potato when you are living just a day trip from Venezia without beeing there for a relaxed Sunday-breakfast.

[@anaisjk]

Hey Dana!! Great video. Pls do more of these road trip videos, in more detail. Thanks.

[@kingtillotz4791]

I live in the south of germany in Bayern. So we went to Hamburg, where we had a tour through a huge shipbuilding hall.

[@louibeans]

Awwww you went to Aschaffenburg! Its the area I grew up in and Aschaffenburg is home to me. My Dad and I sometimes do smaller roadtrips to cities nearby that we havent been to yet and just do some classic exploring. The best kind of exploring has happened in the south of switzerland/north of italy where we went on vacation on a regular basis when i was little. Lots of road trips and exploring and the area is just so beautiful. I remember secret bamboo gardens and giant rock monuments and ppl jumping off a stone age old bridge into a mountain spring kind of river. Oh man now I wanna go back!

[@WantedAdventure]

Sounds like some nice memories :)

[@CassiaInside]

I can't believe you visited Paderborn! When I saw it I got a bit home sick, because I lived for 8 years in Paderborn and it's so beautiful, specially at the Pader. Fun fact: The Pader is the smallest/shortest River in Germany! :3 you should also have checked out the Dom and a thousand of other things! If you ever want to come to Paderborn again, let me know! I would love to tell you a lot about. ♡

[@OkieJames]

wow looks amazing.. you are so amazing.. your videos always give me life to my soul!!!

[@Jon4as]

In my 4th year at school we went to the externsteine and we had to draw them😄 The next stop has to be the Hermannsdenkmal!

[@sessizgozlemci]

Aww I love how excited you get about everything! Would love to meet you in person one day

[@vinnimann8101]

Wow I'm so proud of you that you said Nordrhein-Westfalen correctly 😱 I tried to teach my American friends (because I'm from NRW) but they never could pronounce it 😅 Would have loved to meet you in Bielefeld! If I had known I just would have walked around in the Teutoburger Wald to find you 😅

[@couch9416]

kommst du aus Bielefeld, wenn ja ich auch😄

[@jan-go1fy]

Haha, finde ich auch, nichtmal unser englischer Englisch-Lehrer kann das aussprechen. 😂 Kommst du aus Bielefeld?

[@N1N4K]

When they mentioned Bielefeld. I thought, Yay I used to live there :)

[@carokempf]

I thought I saw your car in an Aschaffenburg multi-storey car park (noticed your website address on the back window) :-D Very cool and glad you had a great time!!

[@rcookie5128]

Looks awesome! I really like that Mr Germanman is part of your videos now, too! :D In his first appearence he seemed a bit nervous but now he's just integrated so good, like he was always a youtuber :D

[@WantedAdventure]

:D I will pass the positive feedback along to him! Thanks

[@rcookie5128]

Wanted Adventure Thanks!

[@SuzuStarlight]

Oh my god ;_; It's so nice to see you guys visit my home and liking it so much! While I'm not from Paderborn itself, I used to live in Kreis Paderborn as a child, so the city and all the sights like the Externsteine or Hermannsdenkmal are super-nostalgic for me. If you're in Paderborn again, try the authentic Paderborner Landbrot. What they sell in plastic backs in shops elsewhere in Germany is pretty gross and nothing like the real thing! Pickert is also a classic food from the Region, especially famous in Lippe.

[@natalieb471]

My mom, sister, and I once drove from our home in Michigan USA, down to Georia where my aunt and uncle live. We stopped for a night in Kentucky to see some caves. Then in GA we mostly spent with family. then we stopped at the Atlanta aquarium and spent a night near Cincinnati on our way up to MI and went to the zoo in Cincinnati. It was a fun week.

[@WantedAdventure]

+Natalie Boyer oooh cool that you checked out the caves in Kentucky! I remember learning about those in school :)

[@frankschulte1612]

Hey Dana and Mr. German Man, thank you for the nice video! I enjoyed it very much. You can see so much beatiful landscape, rivers, mountains and villages when you take the time and travel on the landstraße. One typical food of Paderborn or Westphalia in general is Kartoffelpuffer, I think :) I also made a road trip together with my wife from the western border of germany to the eastern border. We drove the Bundesstraße 1. Starting in Aachen we passed Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Soest, the Externsteine, Hameln, Brunswick, Magdeburg, Brandenburg and Berlin. We also saw the beatiful Fachwerkhäuser and other sights like an old steel works, an abbey, churches and castles. The last destination was Küstrin (Kostrzyn) in Poland.

[@WantedAdventure]

+Frank Schulte (asitek) sounds like you also saw a lot on your trip! Germany has so many interesting places to see, I'd love to make more road trips in the future 😃

[@frankschulte1612]

Yes, me too :) I just enjoyed part 2 of your road trip video. I didn't know that Bielefeld really exists... uhm... that it is so beautiful. Thank you and auf Wiedersehen, i am looking forward to watching your next videos

[@PeBu34]

Thank you for taking me up to the Externsteine! It was an awesome sight! :)

[@WantedAdventure]

glad you enjoyed seeing them! :)

[@keinplanvon]

wow... that's handy... a bag of crunchy crisps inside a zipper bag... I know these bags, I have them in my drawer... very clever idea!

[@Lcngopher]

My family has gone camping all over the states. We've been to gillette, wyoming and on that trip, saw mount rushmore and the mall of america. I went to hershey pennsylvania and Niagara falls before my sisters were born. Just this past labor day (the first monday in september is a holiday here in the us) my family went to vegas and saw the beatles cirque show love and a jeff dunham show. Even met my dads only brother for the first time in about 19 years since my grandma's funeral. Hes lived in vegas for quote some time.

[@suprafahrer6453]

Kassel has a cool Hercules monument and water cascade. That is my favorite part of Hessen, with all of the old Volcanic lanschaft.

[@AvailableUsernameTed]

Thanks. I enjoyed that. I would have stopped for the only remaining fillable moat too.

[@Ultravore]

nice to see that Mr German Man appears in your videos more often ^^

[@darvinray1783]

I love this video. I'm sharing this in my facebook wall.

[@Amber-cb6ee]

There are so many pretty places my husband and I have visited since I moved here: Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Bad Neuenahr/Ahrweiler, Koblenz (and the entire upper middle Rhine valley), Harz...just to name a few

[@raffaelebarbalace4494]

Hi beautiful place Paderborn!! Anyway Germany is beautiful everywhere!!

[@Sushigrl1029]

I was in Aschaffenburg last year! It was gorgeous

[@The93Nats]

you are so lovely! and it is so cute to see how you fell in love with germany :D

[@annekinsky.3940]

it's so amazing to see you in Paderborn :D

[@jonathantriplehorn2785]

Very cool! I had never heard of that Teutoburg Wald, and I only live a couple hours away. You should stop by Münster on the way back down south. It's absolutely beautiful, and I'd be glad to show you guys around :)

[@martinroe6770]

The rocks at the last place you went to reminds me of my home state of Colorado.

[@Mimarspre]

If your still are in Paderborn you should also visit Soest , there are plenty of Fachwerkhäuser there. Another beautiful place is Warburg.

[@solaria85]

They should visit Soest during Allerheiligen Kirmes! Soest is my hometown :)

[@Mimarspre]

***** My husband and I were there last weekend. It is beautiful!

[@RamBoZamBo123]

Halbes Jahr im Kreis Soßt gewohnt, froh wieder weg zu sein!

[@marcusgriese5966]

*Soest

[@RamBoZamBo123]

Homophonie als Stilmittel

[@moritz4310]

Hey Dana! The warm Pader has a constant temperature. So the source has been used in winter to wash cloths. In winter the water temperature is like 14 degrees - instead of 5 degrees in the other sources.

[@Tholabar]

Special food of Eastern Westphalia: - Pickert, a specal kind of pan cake (made with potatoes) eaten with Rübenkraut (eat it!) or Leberwurst (don't eat it!). You really get it in this area only. - Steinhäger (a spirit with juniper) comes from Steinhagen near Bielefeld - Dr. Oetker pudding and pizza (made in Bielefeld :D ) - Werther's Original (candy made by Storck in Halle near Bielefeld. Werther is nearby, too. Ok, last two are jokes....

[@rrrotkehlchen]

I grew up in Paderborn and in my youth i spent a lot of time in the park where you sat :D I don't think we have a typical food in Paderborn, but maybe it's brown bread (Pumpernickel) like everywhere in Westphalia. Did you know that Libori is one of the biggest and oldest festivals in germany?

[@TimeturnerJ]

Yay! You visited the Externsteine! I actually live in that area. Those rocks are an ancient religious site - many different cults have used them over the millenia. People have visited the Stones since around 10,000 b. Chr., so they have a really long history. I'm pretty fascinated by archaeology, so I'm really excited that I live somewhat close to such an important site. :D

[@DJDoena]

Döner with Bratkartoffeln? That's AWESOME!

[@WantedAdventure]

It was a special kind of veggie Döner they had at the festival. It was really delicious!

[@Lamilkufresoko]

I'm from North Rhine Westphalia! Typical food from the Rhine area would be "Himmel und Ääd" (Himmel und Erde) which is fried Blutwurst (I don't know how to translate that) with fried apples and potatoes and I really love it! Also Paderborn has its own bread, "Paderborner" ;)

[@nillewenne2934]

the externsteine look really interesting! I've only visited the bruchhauser steine which may even be a little better, cause you have a great view over the whole sauerland from there!

[@Jochan88]

It's soooo funny since you chose a route which passed only places I have lived already :)

[@pmb19995]

Ah you reminded me to go to the Externsteine again! Wasn´t there for many years, althrough I live just 30 to 40 minutes away from them :D

[@WantedAdventure]

+pmb19995 really cool rock formation! loved it 😃

[@pmb19995]

you're welcome :D

[@irenemains9305]

Hey, Dana! Thanx for the vid! Close to Aschaffenburg is Seligenstadt. You definitely should have checked that out, too!

[@WantedAdventure]

+Irene Mains thanks so much for the suggestion! 😃

[@melk2000]

How cool my hometown is 15 minutes away from aschaffenburg😊

[@hellkitty1442]

If you like Fachwerkhäuser, Dana, you really should visit the Harz mountains and the villages and towns there. There's loads of old houses there. In Quedlinburg for example there's a building built without the use of metal! It's just that old. Also, the open air theatre in Thale is real nice, as it's right on the mountain. So you sit and look down the mountain at the plays.

[@ronhochhalter3491]

Great video! I love seeing these beautiful small towns. I'm surprised that there is NO automobile traffic. Many of the roads you were traveling on looked like they were single lanes with no center lines. Were these one way streets?

[@masterofzungel1355]

Uuuuiiiiii.....schöne Tour...........und nettes Vid...... :) :) :)

[@Emy4ka91]

I really love your videos! I'm so happy you could see those things. Germany can be really pretty. I actually live in Paderborn :) I did the same thing in the United States. I left my home and lived in the US for a year, and I visited a public high school. I came back home like 2 months ago, and I really miss the US.

[@kaktusballerina-buchschwin1542]

it´s funny to see all these places in your video. i´m living in NRW between paderborn and bielefeld :D

[@FloIstMoep]

nice tour!

[@Shortravels]

Ich wohne in Aschaffenburg❤️❤️

[@Pascalis18]

Ich auch

[@roarmaus]

VW Golf? Love mine! Her predecessor was a New Beetle. Much hatch liebe 💜

[@ulrichlehnhardt4293]

I am watching this in Canada and getting homesick ;-)

[@Shushuku]

Thumps up for Aschaffenburg! Or do I have to say hands down, these days? I live near this town and I wished I would have been there to meet you.

[@pentax2508]

I'm really looking forward to see you hopefully one time in Hamburg. The most beautiful city in the world. Germany is so much more beautiful than Bavaria and the South.

[@lisaschneider9151]

love ur vids!💕

[@WantedAdventure]

Thank you! :) :)

[@theplanet86]

It´s kinda funny to see you exploring the Externsteine because I live in Detmold, like 15 km away from them and I´ve been there for so many times since I´ve been a little kid and I really like them. I wish you could see them in winter when they´re covered with snow. If you´re still around you should see Detmold city, there are beautiful Fachwerkhäuser and our little castle in the park :) enjoy your roadtrip

[@samto6994]

Cool, I am from Paderborn 😀

[@robertmeissner5511]

this year i was at the Nebelhöhle, a cave not that far away from my hometown...I was so surprised that there is such a gem next to the place i grew up...btw i live in Berlin for about 20 years now so i just explore my home again...

[@WantedAdventure]

oooh just looked it up and the Nebelhöhle looks really cool!

[@MercuryLove46]

beautiful! I'd love to do this. such a contrast between dry out California

[@vanu1995]

You've been to Aschaffenburg :O I live just 20km from there and I am in Aschaffenburg almost every day :O crazy. I am glad that you liked it! :)

[@nickwild4933]

And Libori is very cool. I love it.

[@deeniezoe3154]

I live in NRW near Düsseldorf and I did a couple of years ago a roadtrip down to Konstanz and Mainau, stopping at the castels along my way :)

[@WantedAdventure]

oh that sounds really nice :) :) We've visited Konstanz and Mainau as well (not on this trip, but in the past). Really lovely places!!

[@Luv2tickt]

Heilige...those döner's were huuuuge! I trust they were better than the ones usually found at the street carts. When I was in country in 2009, I took a side trip to Illesheim where my mothers husband was stationed before he was deployed to Viet Nam. Quaint little town where I took a bunch of photos. Apparently the town hasn't changed much in the 39 years since he'd been there. I got a kick out of their little "Feuerwehr haus." I could just imagine everyone running to fetch water buckets as that's about all the building looked like it could hold. Oh and Mr. German Mann is completely spot on about swans. Not only are they mean, they're actually fairly dangerous.

[@PhoenixGNN]

You should totaly visit Trier, the oldest City in Germany. I love this city since I've moved here six years ago. So many things to see, so many beautiful buildings, so much roman history. I could be your personal guide :D

[@blackk_rose_]

I want to go on a road trip one day! It's funny, I live in Bielefeld and I went hiking in the Teutoburger Wald with my family a few times already but I didn't know the Externsteine existed. I need to check them out one day, they look cool.

[@robwilliams2410]

Awesome tour!! I never heard about your final destination in this video before, and I'll have to weave that into my travels the next time I'm in that part of the country. How did you decide on Aschaffenburg and Paderborn??? They are both places of significance for me. I have childhood friends in the Aschaffenburg area who played a pivotal role in my decision to move to Germany, so I have spent lots of time there. My first job after college was in the States, but the company's headquarters was in Paderborn, so I was there a number of times on business, with my longest stay being ten weeks. Can't wait to see more of your travel videos 😃👍

[@WhiteSpatula]

Dana, next time you visit the States, you should see if you can squeeze in a trip to Mesa Verde (southwest Colorado) to see these amazing ancient cliff dwellings. And Four Corners isn't too far from there either. Just a couple suggestions. Cheers! -Phill, Las Vegas

[@eltfell]

You missed Bartholomew Chapel in Paderborn - small, but architectural unique and with a special acoustic. And quite old, built in 1017. Fun fact: The River Pader is the shortest river in Germany.

[@frenchprincessxoxo]

Beautiful video! :)

[@WantedAdventure]

Thank you!! :)

[@tatravelvlogs]

Nice, you have been to Paderborn. I was living there for a couple of years. How did you like the city? You should visit the Externsteine during the Sommersonnenwende, quite a few people there during that time. :D

[@DJDoena]

"Somewhere in Germany next to a wheat field" - Well, that narrows it down! ;-)

[@WantedAdventure]

xD I do my best! haha

[@aleksu.8012]

We love to go on roadtrips along the Rhinevalley, it is very beautiful. Very near to where I live is the only rebuilt Romian Castel in the world (among other things), which might interest you. :) It was rebuilt by our Kaiser Wilhelm. ;)