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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 BarnesInLondon
July 22nd 2008

Weekend in Munich - blog by Joan

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Lunch on the Lake
These little electric boats were very cool (and quiet). This is our view while we ate lunch in the little Bavarian town.

K...so last weekend was spent squiring Barnes the Younger 'round Munich. We flew out of London Friday morning and into the beautiful Munich airport (really-its beautiful!). Scott plugged in his trusty Garmin navigational system and off we went! We drove to a gorgeous little Bavarian town (whose name I never quite caught, something with Strasse in it I'm sure!) that was nestled at the bottom of the Bavarian Alps. This ski town sits next to a glassy lake where pedal boats and steins of beer call your name. <Update -- Name of town is Schliersee> That evening we attended a work [View Full Entry]

By Leah Nicole
July 20th 2008

plans change...

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biking

Neuchatel Switzerland was a perfect relaxing day last wednesday after our hike through the alps. We had a nice dinner there too, a fisherman´s catch salad. Wow, that seems so long ago. We ended up in Zurich on Thursday and made a day trip out of it, as the plans to stay with Deb´s sister fell through. Zurich was...less receptive and warm than every where else we´d been. A big city mentality, a little snotty. I thoroughly enjoyed the Swiss National Museum though. We spent a good 4 hours there on our rainy day. And I won´t scoff at the delicious [View Full Entry]

By Cpheen
July 20th 2008

When in Munich .... Prost

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Black Forest

Last I updated I was heading towards the black forest, I know this was only a few days ago but so much has happened since then. We have been pretty much living life by the hour instead of by the day. We are just going with whatever whims that we have. This has turn out great for us turning the last few days into a blur of random encounters and making new friends. To start from the beginning, on Friday morning we woke up bright an early ready for a busy day. We hoped a train to Freiberg which we had [View Full Entry]

By Adventure08
July 18th 2008

Watcha Munchen on?

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New friends
Robert and Toby from Australia

Munich! The land of the... well, beer. We arrived at Munich Hauptbahnhof in the afternoon and trammed over to our hostel, 10 minutes away. It was called the Tent, and we didn't really know what to expect. It was a giant tent. With 150 beds inside. Nice! It looked exactly like a summer camp on the outside... bonfire over here, campy kitchen over there, tables and benches and hammocks and other private tents set up. It was kinda late, so we had lunch at the hostel itself. 3 Euro pasta = Amazing. Oh my it was good. Afterwards, the girlies went [View Full Entry]

By bruin619
July 16th 2008

More Munich....

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Sorry I got cut off...anyway, the haufbrauhaus was even better than we expected...an oooompah band played hits all night and the halls were filled with drunken americans and japanese tourist groups (honestly, the bathrooms here smelled worse than any other that we have utilized). The next morning, we got up at around 9am to the sound of pouring rain (the area outside of the tent was complete mud) and headed out to our hostel, just around the corner from the main train station. Here we met up with our boy Rich (a ruffian university of Wisconsin grad student that we met [View Full Entry]

By bruin619
July 16th 2008

Munich

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Simply stated, Munich has been awesome. Quite easily the best city that we have visited thus far! We arrived two days ago with Lionel Ritchie's "all night long" playing on my i-pod...looking back, I cannot help but laugh at the symobolism as this was about how long we stayed at the haufbrauhaus our first night!! (sadly, it closed at midnight). Anyway, after our arrival at the main station we headed out on the number 17 tram in order to find our lodging: "The Tent". Although EJ thought that we were going to sleep in the dirt, we were surprised to find [View Full Entry]

By bruin619
July 14th 2008

Vienna...

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Well...we visited Vienna. It was a nice city, one that we will surely visit again...when we are about 62 (as this seems to be the median age of its tourists). When we first arrived, we were concerned that a day and a half would too short of a time frame to properly see all of the cities sights...we were wrong! Our first night we ventured into the old city square to check out the St. Stephens cathedral and adjacent Hofburg palace in order to get a head start. Immediately after coming out of the subway we were rushed by Turkish men [View Full Entry]

By Spartan
July 13th 2008

Prost a Munich!

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In the Engleshergarten

We have been in Munich for 3 days now and it certainly has lived up to it´s claim as one of the most fun cities in Europe. Probably our favorite activity was taking a 4 and a half hour bike tour around the city where we learned a lot about the history of Munich and went to a biergarten which is a must while you are in Germany. The bikes we took out were pretty interesting. Imagine your first bike, complete with back pedal breaks, and triple it in size. Apparently you never forget how to ride a bike, but learning [View Full Entry]

By Pen and Dave
July 13th 2008

Bier, Bratwurst & Bavaria

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Dave, Munich & Skittlebrau

Our assult on Munchen coincided with a gigantic lesbian street festival, highlighting the party vibe you'd expect from ze crazy Germans. We quickly assimilated, scoffing bratwurst and swilling Lowenbraus in the street surrounded by The Village People lookalikes and a host of latexed and feathered friends. Dinner involved a rowdy bier hall complete with a totally German menu and a menapausal bier wench. Thank god for the friendly locals and their exceptional translation skills. A day in Dachau Concentration Camp brought down the festive mood a bit whilst expanding our intelligence for the [View Full Entry]

By katenian
July 12th 2008

Gutentag from Germany!

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Hello! We are typing to you from Munich, Germany! We left Prague yesterday and were definitely sad about it. The first night we were there we met Ryan, from Coronado! It was so refreshing to be able to make San Diego references and have them be understood by someone. Then we met a couple, Lera and Mike, who were from the Bay Area and it turns out they went to school at UC Davis with Ryan! Small world. Funny thing is, Lera went to Monte Vista High School in Danville, CA, which I always see on myspace when searching for MY [View Full Entry]

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