Drehnow, Germany

We are a family living in the wonderful Region of the so-called “Spreewald” (“Spree” is a river and “Wald” means the forested region). Our sons (27; 30 years) normally would not travel with us.
We live in a village (Drehnow, with 600 inhabitants) near Cottbus, a cultural town with 100.000 inhabitants.
Special for our region is the “sorbic” Language. Some people, like my mother, can speak it too.

The Spreewald is a stream landscape with a lot of small feeders, which are perfectly for canoeing- or boat-tours. You can also take good bike-tours in the Spreewald.

We have got an art-gallery and a swimming-pool on our yard.

We have also a little second house in Berlin.

The location of our home is ideal, when you want to visit some big cities: You can reach both Berlin (north) and the UNESCO-World-Heritage-city Dresden (south) in 1 and a half hour.
The Czech capital Prague can be reached by train in 4 hours.
(…and many more, like Potsdam, Görlitz and Bautzen)
There are also a lot of small or big swimming lakes near our home.
Our past home-exchange-partners really enjoyed their holidays in our home!
We have collected our personal favorite tourist attractions in our region in the links.
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Airports:
   - Berlin BER (BER) -> 70 minutes
  
   - Dresden -> 100 minutes
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Our area is 2400 m² big,
with:
- a house 120 m² (4 Bedrooms),
- a terrace with a fireplace,
- a barbecue,
- a swimmingpool (1,20 to 1,50 m deep, size 4 x 8 m),
- a hollywoodschaukel,
- an art-studio,
- garages,
- 4 bikes (for children too)
- a trampoline,
- an airplane,
- a little football place with 2 goals,
- a table-tennis,
- a children-billards,
- a lot of other sport-equipment,
- and a lot of fruit-trees.
 
Ground floor:
Living-room, Kitchen (with the terrace), bathroom with bath, WC, washing-machine, clothes-dryer, corridor, veranda
 
1st floor:
1 double Bedroom, 1st Children’s room (big bed) with a dart, 2nd Children’s room (1 bed) , PC, little office, Bathroom with a shower, WC, BD
 
2nd floor (attic):
Guest’s room with a big mattress
 
Cellar:
big freezer, central of the geothermal heating
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Neighbour-house:
Here lives our Grandma (86 years)
She replies your questions and cares our cat

 
- From our area you have ideal possibilities to use
  Bike paths,
  Inline-Skater paths or
  hiking trails.
 
- In our region there are a lot of lakes ( also for swimming )
 
- In a distance of 5 km from our area there is the fishing-town “Peitz” with a beautiful landscape and museums and little shopping centers.
 
- In a distance of 15 km there is “Burg”, a village with thermal baths,
and small rivers, where you can do canoeing, ..., biking, hiking.
 
- 15 km from our house is “Cottbus” , the University City with a lot of Parks, cinemas, theatres,. …
 
- 30 km: german-polish Town “Gubin”

LINKS:

Freetime - offers:
- Thermal - bath Burg:
https://www.spreewald-therme.de

• Adventure – Park  „Kulturinsel Einsieldel“:
  http://www.kulturinsel.de/

• Tropical-Islands: (huge hall with a real „tropical feeling“)
  http://www.tropical-islands.de/
  English version:
  http://www.tropical-islands.de/en/visitors.html
   
  Cities and towns near our home:

• Berlin:
  http://www.berlin.de/
  http://www.berlin.de/international/index.en.php

• Potsdam:
  http://www.potsdam.de/
  http://www.potsdam.de/cms/ziel/26670/EN/

• Dresden:
  http://www.dresden.de/
  http://www.dresden.de/index_en.php

• Bautzen:
  http://www.bautzen.de/
  http://www.bautzen.de/home.asp

• Peitz:
  http://www.peitz.de/p/dlhome.asp?artikel_id=&liste=436&tmpl_typ=Liste&lp=2023
  English version:
  http://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.peitz.de%2Fp%2Fdlhome.asp%3Fartikel_id%3D%26liste%3D436%26tmpl_typ%3DListe%26lp%3D2023

• Görlitz:
  http://www.goerlitz.de/

• Cottbus:
  http://www.cottbus.de/
  http://www.cottbus.de/index.en.html