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Practising the Language during
Leisure Time Activities

Excusion to the Altenburg in Bamberg
Excusion to the Altenburg in Bamberg
We want your stay with TREFF PUNKT and in Bamberg to be a great experience and a learning success. As part of this, we offer leisure time activities 3 times per week.

 

Besides these activities being lots of fun for everyone, they are also an excellent opportunity to practise of the German language in many different situations. This is an important part of your learning experience.

During these activities you will meet the participants from other courses and many of our local friends in Bamberg.

Please read on to find out about some of our leisure activities, which we offer regularly.
To see our leisure tips and accompanied activities for the current week, take at look at our our Leisure Time ProgrammeLeisure Time programme.
Of course, our leisure activities are optional, but thoroughly recommended.

Come and join our german speaking community!

The first day at TREFF PUNKT and our regular weekly programme

Leisure activities at TREFF PUNKT have, beside the aspect of language training, three goals: They should...

  • animate to a conversation in German as well as encourage the contact and understanding between students and teachers
  • familiarise students with the German culture and with life in Germany
  • be informative

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TREFF PUNKT-Stammtisch: Weekly, cheery gatherings in in the company of locals in one of Bamberg's beautiful beer gardens or pubs. Time: Every Thursday from about 8:45 pm,
  • in summer, if the weather is good, we will meet in a beer garden called "Wilde Rose" and

  • during the remainder of the year, or if the weather is bad, we will meet in the pub "Zum Pelikan", Untere Sandstrasse 45, 96049 Bamberg

Those who want to walk there together with us, can meet up at 8:45 p.m. on the Obere Brücke in the centre of Bamberg. Visitors are always very welcome!

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Getting to know Bamberg with TREFF PUNKT: This includes walks through the town, during which you learn interesting aspects about the city’s 1000-year-history. After the walks, we often visit one of Bamberg’s 9 private breweries in order to try the beer specialities of our region, e.g. Rauchbier ("smoked beer").

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Sports: On Wednesdays in the summer we play volleyball, football, badminton or Frisbee. Other alternatives? Golf, tennis, gym visits, squash, canoeing, paragliding, cycling, hiking, aerobics, jazz dance and many more...

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Theatres and concerts, In Bamberg’s new concert hall you can enjoy the classical concerts of world-famous orchestra Bamberger Symphoniker, and visit jazz and rock concerts. There are also many bars and clubs where small live-concerts or theatre productions are offered. The main theatre is Stadttheater E.T.A. Hoffmann, but there are also many small, private theatres, which offer a broad range of plays and comedies.
For up-to-date events, please refer to www.veranstaltungskalender-bamberg.de.

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Afternoon activities: may include visits to nearby cities of: Würzburg, Nürnberg, Coburg, Bayreuth or, as depicted on the left, a wine feast in Zeil am Main.

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Films and lectures regarding different topics like culture, history of the city of Bamberg and economy by teachers and students.
Here you can see Patrizia from Rome presenting the city of Berlin.

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Weekend excursions
We organize group trips, like for example to Berlin, Würzburg, Munich, Weimar or Regensburg - Walhalla - Weltenburg.

Many of our students like to organize their own trips over the weekends. Places easily reached by train and thoroughly recommended are Frankfurt or Leipzig. Also very popular are Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Heidelberg, Neuschwanstein, and Prague*.

* If you are planning to go to Prague, remember to bring your passport!

>>> some impressions of our excursion to Berlin

 

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You can find more photos of our activities in our photo gallery, where all pictures taken in the past half year can be found sorted by date.

If you would like to visit other cities and regions in Germany or have special interests in leisure activities, we will be pleased to help you. We have information on German cities, regions and sights available at the school, which you may borrow free of charge.

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