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.
July 24th 2008Europe » Germany » North Rhine-Westphalia » Dortmund This post is going to be broken down day by day because there is so much to cover.
Monday; Woke up early as we were driving to the North Sea. Packed up the van, picked up dennis' friend Nicole an ... [full story]
July 4th 2008Europe » Germany » North Rhine-Westphalia » Cologne En se pudrió todo. Nos enteramos de la verdad, es verdad que es difícil de aceptar para unos, y algo normal para otros. Pero vamos a dejar este tema para un poco mas adelante.
es la cuarta ciudad ... 7 photos[full story]
July 4th 2008Europe » Germany » North Rhine-Westphalia » Düsseldorf Nos encontramos en el aeropuerto de Amsterdam con los tíos Cristina y Gaby, que venían en un vuelo de KLM desde Ginebra a las 7 de la tarde. A las 8 ya estábamos arriba del auto sin tener el menor pla ... 13 photos[full story]
July 22nd 2008Europe » Germany » North Rhine-Westphalia » Bonn Endgültig wieder zurück in Deutschland -Fazit meiner Weltreise!!
1 Jahr raus aus dem Job und dem “System“, 274 Tage auf Reisen, dabei 19 Länder auf 5 Kontinenten besucht und mehr als ze ... 3 photos[full story]
July 21st 2008Europe » Germany » North Rhine-Westphalia » Cologne We woke up this morning to an Amsterdam streaming with rain. Since we intended to head to Cologne at some point, we figured why not sooner. Arrived in Cologne at about 3pm, and began exploring.
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July 20th 2008Europe » Germany » North Rhine-Westphalia » Dortmund Friday was a rather chill day for Dennis and I. We slept in, which felt amazing. For lunch we biked to the bakery down the street and had fresh baked good and coffee :D. That afternoon we drove around ... [full story]
July 18th 2008Europe » Germany » North Rhine-Westphalia » Dortmund Well I am currently just outside of dortmund staying with dennis. But i will fill everybody in on whats been going on in the last few days. On Tuesday Jonas, Fabian and I took the train to Nurnberg an ... [full story]
April 29th 2008Europe » Germany » North Rhine-Westphalia
We arrived in Dusseldorf late in the evening and made sure we brought the storm from Brussels with us. We do try to bring gifts when we visit :p
Despite the weather, Michael's friend Matt kindly ... 26 photos[full story]
July 1st 2008Europe » Germany » North Rhine-Westphalia » Cologne Here are some more random photos from teh rest of Germany, I don't take a ton of photos, especially not of people, but Josh does, so I'll grab some of his and post those too. This is Cologne and Fran ... 71 photos[full story]
July 13th 2008Europe » Germany » North Rhine-Westphalia » Cologne Hello All!
Life has taken it's twists & turns recently, but somehow I safely made it to Köln in one piece! Well, I'm actually staying with this amazing guy, David, right outside of Cologne in a pr ... [full story]
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