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24 Hours in the Green Hell

When Roderick Eime packed his bags for the Nürburgring, he thought he was off to cover one of the world’s great Touring, GT and Production Car races. Well he was, sort of..


A Day in Frankfurt

A stopover in Frankfurt can be a rewarding experience as Karen Halabi discovers.


Alsace: a little piece of Germany in France

A garden 'painter' captures the essence of Alsace, outside St Laurent Church in Wintzenheim

Alsace, just over the German border in France, is a fascinating ethnic mix of languages, cultures and cuisines


Berlin and Beyond

The new Berlin - Checkpoint Charlie (above), a revamped Reichstag (below).

Karen Halabi visits a once divided city to report on how reunification, as well as a huge reconstruction program which turned Berlin into the largest construction site in Europe, have seen it become Germany’s most exciting tourist attraction.


By boat and beer-glass through Bavaria

The Bavarian river-port of Regensburg after a freak snowstorm

Munich's Oktoberfest beer festival is justly world-renowned. But the rest of Bavaria has an equally enticing beerscape.


Checkpoint Charlie

These days all that’s left of the Wall is a short 100-metre section which stands curiously alone in a suburban street just off Potsdamer Platz, metres from Checkpoint Charlie. Open-topped tourist buses file by and tourists crane from their upper decks to take videos and snaps of this last remaining remnant.


Dresden - Germany's Baroque Pearl shines anew

"The German Florence", a city of imposing structures

The sublime "Culture Capital" of the former East Germany rises from the ashes of World War II


Eurail Explorer

Switzerland: The Bernina Express negotiates the dizzying Landwasser Viaduct

The Eurail Pass can be used to explore some of the most fascinating and hidden corners of Europe


Europe is not designed for Speed

The MS Amadagio in Dürnstein, Austria (above); Fine cuisine aboard the Amadagio (right); Unseasonal spring snow in Germany (below)

When a cruise ship gets stuck on Germany's Main River, the result becomes an exercise in "What if...?"


From the Sublime to the Magnificent

Statue of JS Bach in his birth town of Eisenach, in the former East Germany

Explorations of Bach country, in the former East Germany


German Humour is no laughing matter

The cloisters of Wartburg Castle, Erfurt

A road trip through the new Germany


Pressing the meat or meeting the press?

A demonstration of Gutenberg's original printing press, in the Gutenberg Museum

Gutenberg's marvellous invention on display in Mainz, Germany


 

 
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