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Background: As Europe's largest economy and most populous nation, Germany remains a key member of the continent's economic, political, and defense organizations. European power struggles immersed Germany in two devastating World Wars in the first half of the 20th century and left the country occupied by the victorious Allied powers of the US, UK, France, and the Soviet Union in 1945. With the advent of the Cold War, two German states were formed in 1949: the western Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the eastern German Democratic Republic (GDR). The democratic FRG embedded itself in key Western economic and security organizations, the EC, which became the EU, and NATO, while the Communist GDR was on the front line of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. The decline of the USSR and the end of the Cold War allowed for German unification in 1990. Since then, Germany has expended considerable funds to bring Eastern productivity and wages up to Western standards. In January 1999, Germany and 10 other EU countries introduced a common European exchange currency, the euro.

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By emilyjh
June 28th 2008

Bad Backpacker Back in Bavaria

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Sunset over Sarajevo

Bad backpacker! Bad, baaaaad backpacker! Bad backpacker who sits in a hostel common room and barely even stands up for two straight days! Well, that's not true. I bought some doner kebabs. And Friday night I got so sick of the drunken American teenagers filling the common room of the Wombat's Hostel Muenchen that I decided to up and get myself some dinner and entertainment. After all, the Munich Film Festival is going on! That'll be all sexy and cultural and fantastic, and surely there will be something ludicrously sophisticated to see there! Upon getting home I'll be able to casuall [View Full Entry]

By HaaHaaHaa
June 27th 2008

Back from the middle of nowhere!

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Sorry it has been so long since my last post. The internet was finicky in Berlin, and in Fussen there was no internet! I should have been in Munich yesterday, but I got really sick my last night in Fussen so I decided to stay there for another night. It was kind of expensive, but I felt so horrible and, let's just say having my own bathroom to be sick in was much better than if I'd had to share. I had a lot of fun in Berlin and Fussen, and will hopefully put up a post for them soon, [View Full Entry]

By GrantH5185
June 23rd 2008

More Munich

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After three days of groggy afternoons asleep and sunrises wide awake I have started to get on a somewhat normal schedule. I took my first walking tour of the city which was interesting. It was led by a chipper New Zealander named Sean who I got along with nicely. When I told him I was in Europe indefinitely he said I reminded him of himself a few years back, and he put the idea in my head of eventually being a tour guide. It would take some work and it is an interesting way to live, but I could envision myself [View Full Entry]

By The R and R Show
June 20th 2008

A Very Quick One

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Just a quick one from Roho since I've got a bit of time... Richard's hand flared up again while we were here in Munich - and the German medical system is much more efficient than the Czech Republic's! In about three hours yesterday we saw a few doctors, had an X Ray and blood tests. None of which showed up anything, but the gaggle of doctors, students and nurses gathered around the X Ray decided to at least treat the symptoms (pain and swelling). This involved wrapping the hand in alcohol soaked bandages and supporting the whole forearm on a sort [View Full Entry]

By GrantH5185
June 20th 2008

So it begins...

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I am officially on European soil, checked into the hostel in Munich and I am dead tired. I have to wait until 3 pm for check in time, so I have been walking around the area and sitting in the hostel lobby drinking a beer. It is awesome, but I need sleep. Hope to see a bed soon... but the beer tastes really refreshing, and I am excited to be here [View Full Entry]

By twotorontoguys
June 20th 2008

Part Three - Back to Munich

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Cheers!

Where to start... we’ve packed a helluva lot into the past four days, including our return trip from Vienna (Monday), daytrip to Salzburg (Tuesday), a great walking tour of Munich (Wednesday) and an ok bike tour of Munich (Thursday). In between, we managed to become football fans, (we even have the hats to prove it!), Tony learned how to play rummy (something I thought ‘not possible’), and yes, we drank a lot of beer and jagermeister! So here we go; sad to leave Vienna, we woke up to fantastic weather and we were going to Munich which was forecast to be [View Full Entry]

By DougElliott
June 19th 2008

The Streets of Munich

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Fountain in Munich

Another great day in Germany. We all love this country, and agree that Munich is a great place to visit. When we initially setup this vacation, we thought 3 days in Munich would be enough, but there is way more to see that we were able to fit in. We leave in the morning for Florence by Train, and we are literally across the street from the train station (see picture from our hotel window).... We slept in this morning, and for all of us it was our best night sleep so far. We had a late breakfast (except Rhiannon who [View Full Entry]

By Rob and Annie
June 17th 2008

Alps in the Clouds

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High Lunch
The girls provided all the refinements for a memorable lunch with a lovely view

It's Friday 23rd. May, we leave the Lakes of Northern Italy and drive up into Switzerland. I do mean up, we start climbing up and over the Saint Gotthard Pass, 6935 ft (2114 m) high, the road is amazing as hairpin bands a built like bridges, just hanging out of the side of the mountain. No sooner had we descended from this pass and we were faced with the Furka Pass, as we turned onto the road to take us back up into the clouds we were confronted with a “Pass Closed” sign....? We stopped to enquire on the alternatives, Zermatt, [View Full Entry]

By DougElliott
June 17th 2008

Plzen, Munich, and beyond...

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Doug and Charlene in Prague

Well, we made it back into Germany... First of all, sorry for the lack of an update yesterday (Rhiannon borrowed the laptop to do an update, and ended up chatting with her buddies back home all night, and never got around to uploading our journey). We've done a lot since our last update, but I'm tired, and will try to keep it short.... We spent another partial day in Praque, and determined that we're not Prague people. The place is full of beautiful old buildings, but it's not all that English friendly, it's pretty dirty for it's size, and it WAY [View Full Entry]

By jgibeault
June 17th 2008

Attempted monkey regicide

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Munich's main sqaure

We spent a total of three nights in the Munich area, and all three nights were in different accommodations... Our train from Prague was unable to take us the whole way to Munich because of some track work being done in the Czech Republic near the German border. So, after taking a train part way, they loaded us on to buses for about half an hour to take us the rest of the way to the German border. Then we boarded another train that took us the rest of the way to Munich.... none of this is interesting. The interesting part [View Full Entry]

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