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| I chose the Extended Tour which was taken by the excellent Steffi Schubert ( schubert.steffi@t-online.de) and this two hour tour was absolutely excellent. It featured a visit to the theatre from where Airey Neave made a successful home-run, Colditz historian Pat Reid's escape from close to the Kommandantur and out through a cellar and a very small hole to eventual freedom and the park from where many inmates made mischief. The tour ends with a visit to the excellent museum and I cannot speak highly enough of this tour. The cost is currently 15 euros. |
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Colditz is itself small but quaint and a music festival was taking place. There are ample places to eat and, as with most places which I have visited in Germany, food is plentiful and reasonably priced. |
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After a good night's sleep, I found that the joke was on me when I walked out of Colditz Castle the next morning at 6am knowing that I had paid my bill. The main gate, the gate which found out so many would-be escapers, was firmly locked... There was a gap but not even I could get out. There was one more closed gate, also the scene of an escape attempt, and mercifully this yielded easily so I did make the 6.14am Leipzig bus, slept to Berlin and had enough time to re-visit Checkpoint Charlie,without causing any hold-ups to my knowledge, before flying back to Bristol. |
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