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Webcam Springwatch

Have a quick look around Germany without leaving your seat, thanks to the digital superhighway.

Of farty nuns and rusty knights

We like our food at Wunderbar Castle, and are particularly fond of German delicacies, full of flavour and quirky of name.

*UPDATE: Bridge-building is back in action, as the Green Party is forced to acknowledge it will cost more to stop than to proceed. *UPDATE: following regional elections at the beginning of April, the newly-empowered Green Party has called a halt to the building of the bridge described in the blog below, so the Moselle is […]

Meet our Germany experts: the tweet-surfing Benji Lanyado

Travel writer Benji Lanyado has just returned from a whirlwind circuit of Cologne, completely guided by Twitter.

Talking about war once more

Susanne Pleines, whose mother was forcibly migrated from Silesia at the end of World War II, is one of a new generation of Germans curious about their families’ ‘secret’ history.

Here come the girls!

The FIFA Women’s World Cup is taking place in Germany from the end of June. Bring on the psychic octopi!

Meet our Germany experts: Will Hide, travel writer

Plucky Will Hide has just carried the flag for British writers in a cross-country skiing race in Oberammergau, overcoming a lamentable lack of lycra to do so

On W G Sebald’s ‘Rings of Saturn’

German travel writer W G Sebald’s gloomy account of a walk along the coast of East Anglia has just been made into a film. Andrew Eames has a quick re-read – so you don’t have to.

Meet our Germany experts: Julia Bradbury, television presenter

The UK’s most famous rambler likes a nice frothy beer and is impressed by German hospitality

There’s nobody here but us Saxons

Brian Starbuck shares his experience of holidaymaking in a part of Germany where Brits rarely go.

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Webcam Springwatch

Of farty nuns and rusty knights

A bridge too far?

Meet our Germany experts: the tweet-surfing Benji Lanyado

Talking about war once more

Here come the girls!

Meet our Germany experts: Will Hide, travel writer

On W G Sebald’s ‘Rings of Saturn’

Meet our Germany experts: Julia Bradbury, television presenter

There’s nobody here but us Saxons