Culture

wood pile in Bavaria

Germany Holidays: Hintertupfingen, epitome of a rural backwater

Every nation has its Hintertupfingens, villages at the back end of beyond, where the wood piles are excessively neat and the clocks tick off the years.

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Black forest misty view

Germany Holidays: The Black Forest

The name may not make it sound very appealing, but the Black Forest is Germany’s biggest single tourism destination for holidaymaking Brits.

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Jakob Fugger does his accounts, painting, Augsburg

Germany Holidays: Meet the Fuggers

Meet the Fuggers: a family of medieval bankers who were famous for influencing elections and exploiting simple citizens. Sounds familiar?

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Food in Germany: coffee and cake

Germany Holidays: It’s time for coffee and cake

Germans love their cafés and you should try them as well. Have a piece cake with a cup of coffee. The choice is yours.

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Viehscheid Bavaria decorated cow

Germany Holidays: The Viehscheid, when the cows come home

In the Bavarian Alps, the expression ‘till the cows come home’ comes to pass once a year, and it’s cause for big celebration.

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Kirchturm Erling with maypole

Germany Holidays: The village maypole

The village maypole is a rite of spring, particularly in southern Germany. A chance to dance, to drink, and to climb the slippery pole.

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Weisswurst and pretzel

Germany Holidays: White Sausage Equator

What colour do Germans like their sausages? It depends which side of the White Sausage Equator they come from, in a typical north/south divide.

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King Edward VII of England

Germany Holidays: The Saxecoburgs and the House of Windsor

We know them as the Windsors, but the current British royal family were originally Saxecoburgs, and they were German through and through.

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