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Travelling – once a real adventure. How long did the stagecoach take to get from Hamburg to Berlin? How many borders did Germany have to cross two hundred years ago? What was it like travelling on board a Hanseatic cog or a fourth-class railway carriage? Presenter Kurt Lotz experiences the history of travelling first hand. © 2007, License MedienKontor / NDR Subscribe to the Hamburg Channel: https://goo.gl/3KQCZ9 Follow us on Facebook: / wocomo Until the 20th century, travelling was considered an adventure; it was only with the invention of the automobile that many of the difficulties of the previous centuries were forgotten. In the Middle Ages, only those who had a good reason travelled. Travelling was not only strenuous, but life-threatening. It was only with the start of regular stagecoach services at the end of the 17th century that travelling became more pleasant and, above all, faster. And the widespread construction of railway networks made travelling financially possible for the average person. Kurt Lotz slips into historical roles and jumps across time and northern German locations. He spends a day as a bather in a historic seaside resort, experiences the narrowness of the ship's tween decks as a poor emigrant, where hundreds of people were crammed together to travel to the new world, and is amazed to learn the tricks that can be used to fit a family of four and their luggage into an old Beetle.