Aug 26th, 2008 at 1:30PM: Elvis is buried in Memphis, right? So what's he doing in the German town of Bad Nauheim? No, he was not sighted by some bleary-eyed office worker on the way home after too many beers. Bad Nauheim is the place where Elvis did his military duty in the late '50s. The people of this otherwise nondescript town (well, at least the Elvis fans among them) are not so quick to forget their most famous ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Graceland? No, Deutschland
Aug 26th, 2008 at 1:30PM: Elvis is buried in Memphis, right? So what's he doing in the German town of Bad Nauheim? No, he was not sighted by some bleary-eyed office worker on the way home after too many beers. Bad Nauheim is the place where Elvis did his military duty in the late '50s. The people of this otherwise nondescript town (well, at least the Elvis fans among them) are not so quick to forget their most famous ...Visit the world's most advanced supermarket
Jun 30th, 2008 at 12:00PM: One of my favorite things to do when traveling abroad is stop at the local grocery store for a quick browse. Usually it's a quaint reproduction of the mega markets I'm used to back home, with funky products and even funkier labels that seem quite strange to the passing foreigner. But the METRO group in Germany are going for a different feel with their Future Store market, where shoppers are ...Being in Berlin: The 12 most beautiful cities in the world (according to Die Welt)
Jun 9th, 2008 at 10:30AM: Walking along the last remaining piece of the Berlin Wall on Friday, I was a little disturbed by this billboard advertising Die Welt city guides. I had to take a picture of it.
It says: "Visit the 12 most beautiful cities in the world."
It lists them:
Barcelona
Berlin
Rome
Paris
Amsterdam
Munich
Venice
London
Hamburg
New York
Vienna
Milan
I realize it's ...Photo of the Day (03.06.2008)
Jun 3rd, 2008 at 4:00PM: Looking at this photo by Corey Wood, don't you feel like you're on top of the world? Really, how can you not? The high peak looks like it's above everything. It's a very interesting shot, but a precarious one too, as if a few steps forward could plunge you thousands of feet into the deep, rugged terrain. What peaks have you been atop lately? Share them with us in our Gadling Flickr Pool. ...Welcome to "robot" restaurant, Germany
Apr 8th, 2008 at 6:30PM: What do you get when you combine fine German engineering with the restaurant business? That's right, you get a fully automated restaurant, or a food-serving roller coaster, as some like to call it.
Yes, folks, that's Baggers restaurant in Nuremberg for you. You don't need waiters to order food because customers use touch-screen TVs to browse the menu and choose their meal.
There are long metal ...Hamburg's oldest brothel closing
Mar 21st, 2008 at 7:30PM: I wonder what it actually means when brothels close because "business is falling." Does it mean that German men are getting way too civilized and sophisticated to frequent brothels? Doubtful.
Yet, Hamburg's oldest brothel, Luxor, a family-run operation in the heart of Germany's premier red light district, is closing its doors, IHT reports.. Business, apparently isn't what it used to be. They used ...Photo of the Day (2-20-08)
Feb 20th, 2008 at 10:20AM:
A couple days ago, Catherine snagged one of Larixk's photos for a Photo of the Day selection. Now, I've picked this one, but it's just by chance. The message on this building captures the mood I'm in. Time, for me, comes in fits and starts. Rarely is there a smooth transition from the beginning of the day until the end. Right now, I'm wondering how long I have to finish this sentence before I ...Surfing in Munich, Germany
Jan 25th, 2008 at 10:00AM: When I was in Munich, Germany this past October, I heard about a place on the Isar River where you could surf outdoors any time of the year. "Long ago an urban designer placed three rows of rocks in the streambed to create some aesthetic roil," wrote Scott Ostler for the San Francisco Chronicle, "and, voila, Surf City." The bridge overlooking the wave is on Prinzregentenstrasse at the south end ...Fare wars to Germany
Jan 3rd, 2008 at 5:30PM: Usually around this time of the year trans oceanic ticket prices start to fall. And winter and spring is a great time to travel if you're a northerner (see pictured: my car yesterday), so if you can take advantage of some of the good fares it's often pretty easy to bang out a quick vacation at minimal cost. The first slew of good prices this year seem to be to destinations in Germany. Searching ...The longest bar in the world: Dusseldorf's Altstadt
Oct 18th, 2007 at 5:10PM: In traveling to Eastern Europe last week, I had a fairly substantial layover in Düsseldorf, Germany. Figuring I could make it into the city and back during those nine hours, I checked a few of my favorite internet resources and discovered that Düsseldorf is home to the self-proclaimed longest bar in the world. Thus being the studious Gadling researcher that I am, I decided to ...Berlin: A Bargain City with Bargain Hotels
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Oct 14th, 2007 at 7:37AM: With a plummeting US dollar, there remains very few places in Europe that are a bargain for visiting Americans. Fortunately, Berlin is one of them.
Berlin is my favorite German city because history has raised and dropped it so many times that it is practically bipolar in nature. These days, the city is neither at is nadir or zenith. It is somewhere in between, suffering financially and ...1 in 5 Germans Want The Berlin Wall Back
Oct 2nd, 2007 at 10:57PM: Here's an interesting tidbit I heard on the radio today while driving to my favourite sushi place: 1 in 5 Germans want the Berlin Wall back. An iconic symbol of the Cold War and the divide between communism and capitalism, the Berlin Wall was broken down amidst much celebration in 1990. And perhaps even more surprising? Those who want it back are mostly Eastern Germans. Apparently, breaking down ...Pack Your Bags Now. Germany Proposes Seven-Year Limit on Marriages
Sep 25th, 2007 at 1:30PM: I know what you are thinking. Seven years is still eternity by the standards of some. It is still a long time to stay with someone you married in Vegas intoxicated. Either way, restricting marriages to only seven years sounds like the best idea the 21st century has put on the table so far. Followed closely by the iPod, of course.
Gabriele Pauli, a German politician, has put the temporary marriage ...Which European Country has the Worst Drunks According to YouTube Videos
Across Northern Europe: Why Bother Going to Berlin?
Aug 14th, 2007 at 9:00AM: Museums make me thoughtful, or maybe just a bit precious, and I was in the Pergamon museum here in Berlin today thinking that there may be no more pointless thing than going to a museum. I was having very big thoughts about museums though. Art, I think, is about distillation. It's about someone spending hours, months, years creating something for us to admire for a few minutes. We're looking at ...Bohemian Berlin Nearly Dead?
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Aug 14th, 2007 at 7:57AM: Bohemian Berlin is nearly dead.
Or so claims a recent LA Times article bemoaning the demise of the underground art scene at the hands of commercialism.
Yes folks, it's an age old theme but it's happening once again, this time in the German capital.
During the Cold War, West Berlin was a haven for artists who received subsidies from the government for the hardship of living in the walled city. The ...It's Never Too Late to See The World
Jun 20th, 2007 at 9:52AM: My mother, at 56, is getting her pilot's license. Flying's always been a passion of hers and a tragedy in the family reminded her that life's short. I'm pretty proud of her. The reason I'm telling you this is because I love stories like that, where someone goes against what's normally expected of them to fulfill a dream. Here's another story: As his 50th birthday approached, Gunther Holtorf ...One for the Road: Berlin, Hotels & More
Jun 6th, 2007 at 10:03PM: Being a German company and all, I guess it's only natural that TASCHEN publish its share of native titles. A few weeks ago I mentioned the hefty Spirit of Berlin. Now we've got the recently released Berlin, Hotels & More, the latest in Dr. Angelika Taschen's Hotel series. One of the special selling points of this guide series is the detailed look at specific hot spots to visit in the hotel's ...One for the Road: The Spirit of Berlin
May 15th, 2007 at 9:39PM: We're looking at new May releases all this week at One for the Road, and I'm guessing this one weighs more than any other we will mention. So this is really one for the road that you should actually leave at home. The design team at Cologne-based TASCHEN has just released a hefty photo montage of Germany's capital city. The Spirit of Berlin: A Photographic History Into the City's History is just ...Gipfelbier, or Another Excuse to Drink Beer
May 1st, 2007 at 10:49AM:
I read an interesting AskMetafilter question the other day, it asked: "What is the German word for a beer enjoyed at the top of a summit that you have just climbed?" Apparently the asker climbed Mount Tongariro on the North Island of New Zealand, where they ran across two German men on the summit, each enjoying a beer along with the beautiful view. "They told us that this was a traditional thing ...
