|
|
||
 |
Archive for the ‘Germany’ Category April 30 Now to the Brocken the witches ride; – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
Exactly [...]  February 13 Overlooking Dresden When I first visited Dresden in the mid-1990′s, to my eyes it looked like the city had just stepped out of World War II, even though, in retrospect, it must have undergone a great deal of renovation by that time. Dresden miraculously survived the first five years of World War [...] January 27 Today the UK and Germany remember the Holocaust of World War II when 6 million Jews were killed in concentration camps across Europe, along with untold numbers of Roma, communists, homosexuals, the mentally and physically handicapped, and political prisoners. January 27th marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. It is [...] About this time of year parents deliberately wait in long lines in overcrowded shopping malls so their kids can sit on the lap of a fat red stranger. Some cultures might call this odd. We call it Christmas. Though the Christmas season begins commercially on Black Friday, and religiously on Advent, tonight kicks off the season for children [...] October 3 every year 19 years ago today the great divide between East and West Germany, the front line between Soviet and Western ideologies for over four decades, was erased in an instant. Germany became one nation for the first time since 1945. Fall of the Berlin Wall, Nov. 9, 1989 The reunification [...]
This week starts off the world’s largest folk festival and bier-drinking extravaganza. Oktoberfest takes place, as the name implies, in September. It lingers into October, but tourists arriving mid-month will be disappointed to find they’ve arrived just in time for the dregs. During Oktoberfest the center of Munich metamorphosizes into an amalgamation of Bier Tents, the largest of which–the Hofbrauhaus tent–holds up [...] |
|
|
Copyright © 2010 every day's a holiday! - All Rights Reserved 57 queries. 2.833 seconds. |
||
English
