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What a trip: Christmas in Germany

A Newport News reader visits her grandmother’s homeland.

Koblenz, Germany, at night: Christmas 2023. (Janet Keller)
Koblenz, Germany, at night: Christmas 2023. (Janet Keller)
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Germany / submitted by Janet Keller of Newport News

This nighttime view of Koblenz, Germany, decked out for Christmas was one of many holiday highlights from the Christmas to New Year’s Rhine River cruise I took this winter. I had never visited the interior of Germany, my maternal grandmother’s homeland, and I truly enjoyed the beauty of my ancestral roots.

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