Germany

Top German award for Andy Jarosz

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Andy with Regina Zibell, head of International Media Relations’ for Brandenburg — and Klaus Lohmann[/caption]

Erfurt: Pearl from the old east

The lovely German city of Erfurt won two Guild Tourism Awards in four years — first for its unveiling of…

Stuttgart’s Schweine Museum: the world’s largest pig museum

If you’re going to open a museum to house a collection of pig-related artefacts then the site of a former slaughterhouse is a good a place as any. The Schweine Museum (Pig Museum) in Stuttgart hosts around 50,000 porcine…

Baden Baden: the naked truth

There’s a public drinking fountain in Baden-Baden called the Fettquelle. Dating from 1871, it’s a natrium-chloride-thermal spring that flows continuously into a stone basin…

Hainich National Park in central Germany

It is a crisp, cold day and the sun is glistening off fields blanketed with fallen snow. About an hour’s drive from Weimar, and after a sodden winter in the UK, it…