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Germany Holidays: ‘greenest city’ Freiburg

Germany’s sunniest city is also its greenest, environmentally and politically. Its solar panels generate more power than some whole countries.

Salzstadel Regensburg and the Steinerne Brucke

Germany Holidays: imperial, liveable Regensburg

Holy home of historic Diets, traditional sausages, ancient bridges and modern Popes and Princesses

Germany Holidays: Mannheim – where Rhine and Neckar meet

Mannheim might not be a beauty but it has plenty to offer. Go shopping in squares and be surprised by cool cafés and bars.

Germany Holidays: Proudly Swabian Stuttgart

For a city break in the south off the beaten track, try Stuttgart and its triumvirate of culture, cars and wine.

Cuckoo clock from the collection in the Furtwangen clock museum. Pic Wiki

Germany Holidays: Cuckoo clocks

The heartland of the cuckoo clock is not Switzerland, but Germany’s Black Forest. And hundreds of thousands are still made there every year.

Germany Holidays: Good old Aldi

Germany’s pocket battleship supermarkets have started to move further afield, challenging the bigger, brasher and on-the-bypass aircraft-carrier stores originating in the United States.