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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 ash cole
July 25th 2006

Sylt

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Sylt
chris

After going to bed at 1.30am I then awoke at 4.45 to go to the German Island of Sylt, off the coast of Denmark. Noone else had yet appeared so I woke up Chris and Cam and later we and Jakob staggered bleary eyed to the station, amazingly it was already light. Once we got to Altona where we had to change trains, we realised it was going to cost us 30 euro because we were travelling in peak time, whereas if we waited until 9.30am, some 3 hours, it would only cost 7.50 euro. So we waited for the later [View Full Entry]

By ash cole
July 24th 2006

Hamburg

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Hamburg
The four of us in Hamburg: cam, me, Chris and Jakob

Woke up to some beautiful weather in Hamburg. Chris, Cam grabbed some bikes out of the garage and went off to the nearby nature reserve. It was humungous and I was scared on several occasions that I was going to die. Im no Lance Armstrong and the mum's bike complete with saddle for carrying goods wasnt really ideal for the terrain especially hills. Lots of fun though, especially watching a ligthweight plane take off over us, and nearly take us out. We headed into Hamburg, 26mins by train ( the german's are very precise) and did a spot of shopping and [View Full Entry]

By Dancing Nomad
July 24th 2006

Hamburg - congress & friends

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text and photos to follow.... [View Full Entry]

By cameron007
July 23rd 2006

Hamburg

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Shortly after we arrived at the station, Chris and Jakob were there to meet us. It was great to see Jakob, it had been over a year since he was in Eltham with us. When we got back to Jakobs, we had a big BBQ which was awesome because it had been so long since id had some beautifully cooked chicken and beef. The next morining Chris, Ash and I went for a bike ride in a big nature reserve near Jakobs. As we were riding we saw a plane (cesna) being towed towards a tiny run way. AS we stood [View Full Entry]

By ash cole
July 23rd 2006

Sightseeing in Berlin

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Berlin
The largest remaining section of the famous Berlin Wall

Today Cam and I hired some bikes, which Im sure is the best way to see Berlin. Its amazingly big and a fantastic place to visit. So rich in history, I love it because every where I turn there is something I have learnt about and it makes it all the more special and interesting. The WWII stuff is really where my interests lie, Im just not into art and churches.. We rode to the largest remaining section of the Berlin Wall, separating east from west and got a few pictures there. It is covered in Graffiti as Berlin in one [View Full Entry]

By b rad
June 21st 2006

World Cup fever continues

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inside the manvan!!!
en route to Kaiserslautern for USA Italy

Hi. Lots of running around, lots of soccer and finally some time to breath! I haven't written since Prague because I've been in intense soccer travel mode! I went Prague - Nuremburg - Kaiserslautern - Frankfurt - Munich - Rostock - Lubeck - Hamburg since! And each in one and two day increments, so it's been INTENSE! Tomorrow things will start to be a little bit more chilled out. I fly back to Zagreb to see Zvon and have 8 days undefined there where I intend on resting and perhaps making way to the coast for a handful of days before [View Full Entry]

the boys before USA Italy in Kaiserslautern

By torsk
June 19th 2006

Hamburg

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Ticket Gate
After getting patted down, they simply scan the ticket and you're in. No ID needed.

Ukraine versus Saudi Arabia [View Full Entry]

By Kai and Kerry
June 5th 2006

Willkommen nach Deutschland!

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North German sunset and wind turbine

We have decided to split the Germany blog into two parts. This one will cover our time spent in Glückstadt, ours visits to Hamburg, Travemünde and Lübeck. The second blog, which should be sent out this coming Monday, will cover our night spent in Düsseldorf and our day trip up to Westerland on the Island of Sylt. Glückstadt, Hamburg, Travemünde and Lübeck We were in Germany for a total of 10 sunny days. Our base for the trip was Susanne and Walter’s (Kai’s Dad) place in the picturesque town of Glückstadt. Glückstadt (located in the Schleswig-Holstein region i.e [View Full Entry]

Gluckstad Town Hall (Rathaus) and eagle from the candelabra

Kai and the 10Kg Kasimir. Kasi travels everywhere.

By TWIG project Together We Integrate Growth
May 24th 2006

Another Take on the Bear Story

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...by Richard Bear barks in the night, pigs trumpet, deers mew. Malaika in a fright -me brave and strong- she phew. Food in a tree after a scramble and a poo, Too tired to stay awake and worry or woo. So the bag bugs bite and burrow, Ew. [View Full Entry]

By rog dan
May 6th 2006

Hamburg - Harbour Festival & Miniture Wunderland

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Hamburg Harbour

6:20am isn’t the best time in the morning to be woken up by your alarm any day of the week, and this was a Saturday... What the heck were we thinking? Miniature Wunderland was our mission for the day, and that involved a 70 minute wait for slackers who go there any later than 10am. So our fate had been decided - wake up at the crack of dawn, race to the train station, board the train to Hamburg (the untravelled land - so far) and find this so called 'Wonderland'. 9:50am we were assured that we only had a 10 [View Full Entry]

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