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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 Emufarm
August 12th 2007

I'll give you funny

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It has been brought to my attention that my blog ha not contained sufficent numbers of 'funny bits' for the punters who are reading for a cheap thrill, so here are four= 1 Biking along kustenkanal I suddenly, involuntarily, burst into song.... into song in german. The song went 'Ich bin ein auto/...' fortunately for the world I stopped at that one line but the presence of german and dutch all around me is obivously having an effect, not only does it mke me burst into song but my mind plays little snippets of german sounding words as I bike 'ich, [View Full Entry]

By Two Broads Abroad
June 28th 2007

Gutentag

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Betsy and I first tasted life as true foreigners today. After our first English-fluent Bremen airport info-desk helper directed us to return to purchase tram tickets after we had Euros, we walked circles around the airport until we located an ATM, in a room of its own on the second floor. We returned to the desk to buy tickets, but our Sally was gone and replace by a Reinhold, who understood that we wanted tram tickets but didn't understand that we needed directions to the tram itself. We wandered outside and down the street to a strip painted "Bus Stop," and, [View Full Entry]

By Peeke
June 16th 2007

Richting Bremen

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Breemse stadsmuzikanten

's ochtends vroeg eruit en richting Hamburg centrum om de boot te nemen. Ik heb daar nog 1,5u moeten wachten eer de boot er was. Dan bootje gevaren op de Elbe en toeristje gespeeld. Dan aangekomen in Stade wat een zeer gezellig plaatsje was en vervolgens beginnen trappen. Onderweg 2 keer onweer en regen gehad. Zo fel dat ik doorweekt was. Uiteindelijk ben ik niet gestopt op de eigenlijke stopplaats maar inees doorgereden naar Bremen. Daar op de camping Zweden ontmoet en een hele uitleg gedaan. Uiteindelik was het heel laat eer ik lag te slapen. Dan nu zaterdagmorgend laat [View Full Entry]

By AirMail
April 28th 2007

Germany Take 1: Bremen & Hamburg

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Dinner on Our First Night in Germany
At our campground's restaurant, overlooking a beautiful lake.

Our train trip to Germany wasn't the best experience. Our train from Holland was delayed for about an hour after a broken down goods train was blocking the tracks, which meant we missed our connecting train to Bremen. After we arrived late in Bremen, the camp ground was about an hours walk from the tram stop our Lonely Planet Guide advised us to get off at. We were extra annoyed when we later found out there was a bus that stopped right outside the campsite. Luckily we made it there before the reception closed, and after taking off our heavy bags [View Full Entry]

Sun Setting Over our Fan Cooled Campsite

By hanie
April 19th 2007

a short time in Bremen

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Bremen Central Station

Now it's my turn to visit Phydie in Germany (which I am actually a national of). I went to Hamburg from Oslo via Bremen and it was my first time to come there. I had no idea how to get to the Central Station from the Bremen Airport but Phydie told me that I can go there by either using the tram or the train/subway. I was gonna go for the train but I found the tram first and hopped on it not knowing where it was heading. I tried to buy ticket from the machine but I had no coins [View Full Entry]

By rog dan
August 30th 2006

Can't Let the Rain Dictate Your Day!

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The Town Musicians

If there's one thing that I've learnt in Bremen in the past months is that if its raining it's not one of those lovely 'sit inside with a book days'. Because those days happen all too often and if you abide by that rule you'll become a hermit. So being the 30th of August, my birthday, I decided to go and wander the streets of Bremen in the rain and discover some things that until now I never knew existed. So this blog is essentially another photo album of images that have been taken around Bremen on a rainy day, which [View Full Entry]

By Wanders and Wonders
August 27th 2006

Hochzeit

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Mit grosse Entschuldigungen
The happy trio

Yes, I know I still haven't written up Ecuador yet, but at least some of this blog can be contemporary I figure, and I have time to kill. I'm in an internet cafe in Bremen waiting. I seem to have done a lot of this in the past few dazs. (Bz the waz, German kezboards have z's where the y's should be and vice-versa so there will be a few z's and y's out of place here and there.) Yesterdaz was the wedding, In Oldenburg, of mz friends Nadine and Manfred whom I met in Australia last zear in the little [View Full Entry]

By rog dan
August 19th 2006

European Fußball...

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International Fans...
Roger and Justin all rearing to go with their "Konig im Norden" crowns and 'Danke' flags.

Werder Bremen vs Bayer 04 Leverkusen... the match we had been waiting for. Werder Bremens first home game of the 2006/2007 season and we had tickets. Making it our first live European soccer game. Saturday the 19th of August, 2006 was match day. That morning we dressed our selves to support Werder our adopted team in true Bremen style. With scarves in hand we were off. Our only problem, again a lack of German vocabulary. Unable to sing Werders tunes in German we had to modify them a little, to fit in. Our version of their club song went some thing [View Full Entry]

By rog dan
August 12th 2006

A display of yesteryear - including the crowds!

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An old tram from back in the day.

The annual Bremen Music Festival was on this weekend. It is 3 days of Jazz, Swing, Rock and Roll and old people. The city streets were full of 'the older generation' enjoying live music and sipping wine and beer. We decided to stroll into town and check it out - see what all the crowds were for. So these are a few pictures from the days events, in particular the parade that came down the centre shopping strip, which was a showcase of old cars and a jamboree. And being a Sunday in Germany, usually all the shops are closed. But [View Full Entry]

By rog dan
August 7th 2006

Tag der Fans - Werder Bremen!

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A Fan Car
The owner of this car must really love his fussball. The entire car, inside and out is covered in Werder Bremen paraphenalia. He even has the Werder logo shaved into the back of his head.

Sonntag 6th August, 2006. Today was the Fan Day for SV Werder Bremen - the füßball team which we have adopted while we live here in Germany. We decided to check the festivities out and the day began with a 9:30am training session, which we got up bright and early to go and see. After this, there was the official presentation of the 2006/2007 team and then players were situated at each of the sponsors stands signing autographs and taking photos. We watched the training session along with scores of other Werder faithfuls in the nice morning heat then made out [View Full Entry]

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