If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my Daily Newsletter. Thanks for visiting!Each country comes up with their own restaurant chains.  Germany has Nordsee and Wiener Wald, two restaurant chains that managed to go nationwide.  Nordsee has even managed to expand into other countries outside it’s restaraunt chain locations in Germany, […]

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So the Olympics come to a close, but still Germany did a great job winning golds this year to hold their place as a fairly good olympic competitor.
With 16 Gold Medals, 10 Silver Medals, and 15 Bronze Medals, Germany has a total of 41 Olympic Medals for the 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing.
This puts Germany […]

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* 70% of german highways have no speed limit.Think about choosing a sportscar when you come here and need a rental?
* It is said that germany´s tax system is so complex 80% of worldwide literature about taxes are published in german language
* Germany has about 1250 breweries offering more than […]

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I just happened across this article in which discusses a German guy who has found the ability to turn dead cats and other junk into fuel.  Of course at the time of the printing of the article it outraged the communities in Germany about a guy who wouldturn cats into fuel.
“A German inventor says he’s […]

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Yes Germans did do a little colonization and one remaining colony of Gerany is called Hafia which rests in Africa.
“The German Colony in Haifa was established in 1869 by the Templers Society founded in Germany in 1861. This society was formed as a result of the harsh socio-economic conditions in South West Germany at the […]

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I was using wggesucht.de for awhile to find a room, but lately found it difficult to actually find a “wg” since so many rooms were actually either full or wanted to meet me in person before letting me rent the apartment.  Using http://www.immobilienscout24.de you can actually find a room or apartment without having to go […]

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Chris Kaman a player with the LA Clippers was declared a German citizenship in order to help out the German team.
MLive: “Kaman, declared a German citizen and presented with a passport per the request of its Olympic federation, doesn’t speak German and had never visited the country until this experience. He also never met his […]

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Obama had a little trouble on his trip to Berlin, with the masses not really buying the whole Obama thing.  While Obama did great in Paris, the setting in Berlin seemed a bit to victorious, almost like when John F Kennedy was elected.  Maybe Obama would have been a bit better off coming after winning […]

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You know Germans we often associate them with techno music and social policies, and someone took a spin on what an Obama campaign ad in Germany would look like.  Sure it’s a little technosih with the bright flashing lights, but as I recall I was participating in a protest in Germany which played techno music!  […]

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We all know worldwide there are bound to be some funny city names, such is the case with Germany who has their own  unusual yet funny names.
Take Fucking, Austria where tourist go just to get a snap shot by the town’s signs.  Of course they had to cement the signs down after tourists kept stealing […]

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