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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 HJT
October 15th 2007

Mmmm Hamburg....

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Lads night out in Hamburg
Uwe, Sven, Martin, HJT, Mathias and Jorn

After finally dragging myself away from Amsterdam with a heavy heart I found myself back in Germany, this time in Hamburg to catch up with friends I had made while trekking the Colca Canyon in Peru, Jorn and Ingrid. Once again the red carpet was rolled out for my arrival, almost to the point where I couldn't help but blush. I will be so deeply indebted to my European friends by the time my travels are over that I may well need to train and maintain an auxiliary staff of helper monkeys to adequately repay the favour if any of them [View Full Entry]

By MelC
September 29th 2007

Hamburg - Home Away from Home

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Binnenalster

I arrived in Hamburg after a delayed flight from Copenhagen late on Thursday afternoon. It was nice to fly in over the city and see all the familiar sights again. This is my third time in Hamburg.. I just keep coming back! Everytime I come here it is like rediscovering the city again... I have been here in Winter, Spring and now Autumn - and the city is a different landscape each time. I met up with Christina at the airport. She and I met when I came to Hamburg as an exchange student back in 1993. We have kept in [View Full Entry]

By KTKARL
September 24th 2007

Hamburg to see Hanna and Emmanuel

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Hanna and Manu

More friends!!! Manu and Hanna made the longest trip for our wedding last year, and we were honored! Their place in Hamburg was beautiful. We played while they were at work (I know, everybody's working while we're playing). We hope they don't notice all the cups and silverware we took! KT and I tried to start an exercise routine by walking/jogging around the beautiful lake around Manu and Hanna's place. We were so sore after the 8k loop, we promptly took 5 days off! I guess we'll give exercise some rest for now. We were also lucky enough to celebrate Manu's [View Full Entry]

By Rochelle Ryberg
September 18th 2007

GERMANY!

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Ryanair
Our first flight on europe's cheapest airline!

So last Monday, Nick asked us what we were doing for the weekend, no one had any plans so he suggests we go to Hamburg Germany! It was very last minute but the best way we could have planned such a trip. Nick and Becky had already been to Germany, so they were semi-familiar with it, and Nick speaks some German so he helped us out a lot. The trip there consisted of a train ride, plane ride, and two bus rides, it took a while but it was pretty cheap. Once we got there we wandered around asking for directions [View Full Entry]

By ToniD
September 15th 2007

Hamburg Germany: Northern Europe Cruise on RCCL Jewel of the Seas

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Susanna feeds Billy breakfast

We were already docked at the Hamburg cruise ship terminal when we woke up. It was another beautiful, sunny day, but cooler in the upper 50’s. Billy and I stopped up at the Windjammer Café for breakfast, where Susanna trapped his thumbs under a full glass of orange juice, so she could feed him. We hopped on the $5.00 USD cruise ship shuttle that dropped us off in front of the main town square. Our intent was to catch the double-decker bus tour in English, to tour the city. However, we found out that out of the bus tours that run [View Full Entry]

By Delek Delek
September 13th 2007

Ich Liebe Deutschland

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View Of Rathaus From St. Nikolai, Hamburg
From the top of St. Nikolai. Behind the Rathaus is the lake with a huge fountain in the middle of it, Binnenalster.

Our wild time in Amsterdam over, it was off to Germany, a country I have fond memories of from last year. By the sounds of it however, last summer's World Cup was a once off, as a couple of Germans I have met have said that the scenes of fun, pride and happiness last year were unprecedented and unlikely to be repeated anytime soon. "People still talk about last summer", said one German I met in Lagos. More specifically, we were headed for Bremen- famous for their football team Werder Bremen, a fairytale written by the Brothers Grimm, and of course, [View Full Entry]

By vaagen
September 8th 2007

Autobahn

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Me and Olivia just got a ride from Raststätte Stillhorn in Hamburg and now we're on the Autobahn going 160 km/h. It's friggin' crazy! Really feels like we're in some kind of race. Crazy fun. We were actually thinking about heading to Bremen and then onward but this guy stopping was going to Hannover so we might as well tag along. The weather is pretty gray, cloudy and rainy. :/ [View Full Entry]

By Axu
August 16th 2007

Hamburg & Lübeck

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Holstentor

My last trip in Germany before heading back home to Finland. So this time I update my Travelblog right after the trip. Unusual, I know, but I bet a nice surprise too! The travels that I still haven't updated here will be written to Travelblog some time soon... Target: Hamburg & Lübeck in northern Germany! I travelled with my Erasmus friends Christina, Daniela and Francesco. Christina is an Erasmus student from Bordeaux but is a German. Daniela comes from Portugal and Francesco from Italy. I...well you know where I come from! This trip was a surprise trip. We "planned" [View Full Entry]

By Emufarm
August 14th 2007

Finding Hamburg

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Turns out to be bloody hard. Its 97km by autobahn from bremen to Hamburg, 150km by the bike route, what they don't tell you is that half that route will be unsealed tracks between feilds as you are led between every small, identical town along the way... this can be a little frustrating, like when I had been biking for over an hour, covered 20km of some rough ground after leavinf Zeven, where I had stayed overnight, and came across an intersection between my route and another path to Zeven, distance 8km... but then, that might not have really been 8km... [View Full Entry]

By Alex McG
August 1st 2007

Hamburg 2

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Hamburg from the Elbe
Looking down the Elbe to the port where all the big container ships go.

I took the train from Wedel to the centre of Hamburg with Elke and Kirsten to do some sightseeing. But firstly, the run down on Hamburg... or rather the “Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg” if you want the official title. Hamburg is the second largest city in Germany and is also it’s own state. Hamburg it seems to me as a city is very understated and as a result it constantly surprises you. The character of the place is a bit like the billionaire who still shines his own shoes; out of the ordinary but still down to earth. The [View Full Entry]

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