Learn about a Frankfurt speciality that even Goethe raved about - Grüne Sosse.

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The Wagner apple wine tavern in Frankfurt's Sachsenhausen district has been in the family for 3 generations. Susanne Rudorf was there to reveal the secret of a Frankfurt specialty to Indian IT specialist Prabhanjan Gadela: Green Sauce with Egg, the vegetarian variant of ( Read more... )

Almost 37 million people live in Germany’s 300 largest cities

Germany is a country of thousands of medium-sized towns and cities. Only three cities, Berlin, Hamburg and München (Munich), are Millionenstädte - cities with a population of more than one million. Another nine German cities have a population of more than 500,000 people.

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This is a popular cake in Germany - a speciality from Frankfurt am Main in Hessen. Shaped like a crown in a ring shape, it's filled with buttercream (and optionally raspberry jam) and topped with caramel-covered brittle nuts, called Krokant. It's very tasty and always looks festive. You should try it. :)


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I am studying abroad this summer. Here's how my plan looks.

June 27 Arrive in Berlin

June 27-30
Wait for my USAC group.

June 30th-July 3rd
Berlin Tour

July 3rd-August 10
Living in Lüneburg

August 10
Take Eurail from Hamburg to Frankfurt (or stay in Hamburg)

August 10-12
Frankfurt or Hamburg

August 12
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Random Pictures of Germany

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i wrote in my journal:

i'm desperately craving SODA bread.
chances of finding it here are well....slim.
and i am too lazy to make it myself.

really what are my chances of eating soda bread in Frankfurt?

So I got my email from FFC Frankfurt and they were talking about how Kerstin Garefrekes got hurt and can't play for eights weeks. (dies a little inside ( Read more... )

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German book market

In international comparisons the German book market ranks as the third biggest world wide with sales of 9.3 billion euro (2006). There are normally 1 million titles available at all times and every year about 70,000 new titles are published. About 30% of them are fiction and 70% non fiction although the attention of readers is ( Read more... )