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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 Antibody Man
July 13th 2008

Arriving in Germany

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The beach at Rostock

Our ferry crossing to Rostock in Northern Germany was smooth, and I spent much of the time up on the sun deck. It was quite windy though, and I felt like I was going to blow overboard as Lara took these photos! Rostock has a nice beach, which you can see from the ferry, then you head in to the dock past several really huge cruise liners - our ferry seemed very small in comparison! [View Full Entry]

By travelsincognito
June 18th 2008

Rostock - my first look inside East Germany

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Ferrying across the harbour
Shortcut from the guesthouse to downtown Rostock. A half-hour bus and tram trip cut to five minutes!

18 June: I'M STAYING at the Pension "Zum Alten Fährhaus" (Old Ferry House), a guest house and pub/restaurant on the water looking out over Rostock on the other side. Having just one day to see the town, I take a guided walking tour, figuring it's an efficient way of learning about yet another city along the Baltic coast that once belonged to the Hanseatic League in the Middle Ages. Our guide is introduced as a retired professor now a member of the local historical society, and I think how lucky our group is to have such an august person showing us [View Full Entry]

By LisaCJ
May 31st 2008

Finally hello from Germany!!!!

Europe » Germany » Mecklenburg-Vorpommern » Warnemünde

Helloooo!!! I have finally managed to get onto a computer here. It took me ages to organise a time where I could get an internet card & write my first message from another country! Well, it's been a busy week with drills, inductions, getting lost etc etc. The first day was a bit of a blur with all the info I had to take in. I was given what has to be the hardest 'crew station position' ever! We all have one on board & have to go to it before going to the muster stations where all the passengers would [View Full Entry]

By thepeachskyroad
February 3rd 2008

go to Greisfwald and Gdansk

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let's go to Greisfwald in Germany on the north sea and later to Gdansk in Poland! Greisfwald we found very quite and empty at midnight without any open petrol station and possibility to buy some foood, but full of cars, riding students in the afternoon..no youth hostels but nice hotels with great service! The weather is typical for marine climate cities ( i mean- rain)and people - usually students -friendly and talk easily in english! Small, tiny but nice city full of symbolic fish statues in all around the area. [View Full Entry]

By Euro Africa
October 7th 2007

Rostock Last Day in Germany

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Entering Rostock

Stay overnight in apartment in order to rest, warm up, dry out tent etc. Rostock sparkles as it was the host of the G8 summit earlier this year and the government has obviously spent a lot of effort into polishing the place up. It is quite a lively city with a very pleasant centre. The apartment may be the best deal in terms of price per value in accommodation we have had. Taking Ferry to Gedser, Denmark, tomorrow morning. Ferry terminal 10 km from town center. From there we cycle to Nykobing on Falster Island, then across Lolland Island to take [View Full Entry]

By Euro Africa
October 6th 2007

Guestrow and Buestrow

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Campsite Pier at Buetzow
The campsite was meant for people doing water sports but cyclists also welcome. We were the only people camping here of either category. The owner was a lively young woman who seemed happy to ha... [more]

Guestrow is a surprisingly beautiful spot in this very quiet, less commercial corner of Germany. [View Full Entry]

Ray on arrival in Guestrow in front of the Guestrow Castle

By Euro Africa
October 5th 2007

Mecklenburg Vorpommern

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Picnic Site near Linstow

Stay overnight at two lakeside campsites, Krakower See and Buetzow, en route from Berlin to the Baltic Coast. This area is rich in lakes. [View Full Entry]

By Roundyrhino
September 18th 2007

Superfast VIII - Silja Lines

Europe » Germany » Mecklenburg-Vorpommern » Rostock

Where to, Guv?

We had decided that our mission was to get to Tallinn keeping to our overland plan, but getting there as quickly as possible. However waking up to the thought of getting on a 24 hour bus journey from Berlin, after the highs of the Nachtzug and Trenhotel, I was a little unenthusiastic. I shouldn't have worried, Alan was at work on the wi-fi and had discovered an alternative route over sea - as he put it, 'if we can just make our way to Rostock in Germany, there should be a boat every evening boarding at midnight and setting sail at [View Full Entry]

By Euro Africa
August 22nd 2007

Lutherstadt Wittenberg

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Approaching Lutherstadt Wittenberg

Stay overnight in Lutherstadt Wittenberg. The town used to be called Wittenberg, but was renamed Lutherstadt Wittenberg in 1938. [View Full Entry]

By mnmhull
August 11th 2007

Hanging with Nikki

Europe » Germany » Mecklenburg-Vorpommern » Warnemünde

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Here's Nikki taking some pictures in Warnemünde

So, Nikki had an awesome opportunity to go on a European cruise for practically nothing (except her plane ticket to England, where the ship left from). Her best friend since she was like 6 years old, Alyssa, works with her husband for Norwegian Cruise Lines. The cruise left out of Dover, England and spent 12 days visiting all of the capitals along the Baltic. The best part is that Germany was one of her stops! It was technically listed as Berlin, but she actually came into port in Warnemunde, about 2 hours north of Berlin. According to the GPS it was [View Full Entry]

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