East Germany

Eastern Germany is where the country’s twentieth century is most legible and where the Christmas market tradition is oldest. This archive collects the programmes that treat the region as a whole rather than as a series of single-city stops.

The nine-day Advent journey with a private driver-guide is the flagship: a route that links the markets of Saxony, Thuringia and Bavaria with one guide and one vehicle for the entire trip, so clients unpack rarely and never navigate. The cross-country nine-day Best of Germany itinerary passes through the same region on its way between the north and Bavaria. The Berlin Stasi and Cold War programme sits here too, as the single strongest day for understanding how the divided state was actually administered.

Individual eastern cities have their own archives — Dresden, Leipzig, Erfurt — and any of those days can be folded into the multi-day routes above. Distances here are short and the trains are good, but the countryside between the cities is the part clients remember, which is the argument for a car and a driver rather than a platform change. All journeys are private, fully re-sequenceable, and can start or end at whichever German airport your clients are routed through.