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Bizarre Culture: A Taste of Genuine German Entertainment

I love Germans. In particular, their unabashed fondness for strange entertainment. Case in point: What the bajeesus is going on here?

Bizarre Culture: Fun with Dog Poo in Germany

This bizarre, fifteen-second spot almost doesn’t even warrant comment: I can’t tell if the kid in the middle is having fun or scared out of his mind: And it is, unsurprisingly, from Germany. Odd, just odd.

Photo of the Moment: A Rather Curious Ass, Germany

© schillergarcia

Karma Introduces Itself to Pants-Dropping German Student

© Sbotig A twenty-something German student was removed from a train for riding without a ticket. He attempted to show his disdain for The Man by pulling down his trousers and sticking his bare cheeks against a window. And that’s when karma – to say nothing of natural selection – took its course. But for [...]

Photo of the Moment: The Reichstag, Berlin

© SeBaLiCiouZ Best viewed large.

Photo of the Moment: Cascade at Kreuzbergdenkmal, Berlin

© extranoise

Signspotting: Crystal Clear Bathroom Sign, Berlin

© chaosinjune Wow. There’s certainly no confusion here.

Photo of the Moment: Saarburg, Germany

© Wolfgang Staudt

Photo of the Moment: Up on a Hill in Heidelberg, Germany

© Spigoo Taken with a disposable camera.

Photo of the Moment: Vintage Scooters, Germany

© Todd Baker

GPS Technology Helps Visitors Trace the Berlin Wall

Visitors to Berlin are often disappointed to find few remaining traces of the Berlin wall, and no delineation between the eastern and western parts of the city. When the wall came down, most of it was sold, frustrating history buffs who might otherwise want to visit the forbidding structure that symbolized the difference between two [...]

German Nudist Flight May be Grounded

A travel agency that had planned a charter flight for nudists from the town of Erfurt to the Baltic Sea destination of Usedom, has been forced to cancel its plans even before the clothes came off. Internet travel agency OssiUrlaub had scheduled the fabric-free flight in July 2007 and generated considerable public interest. According to [...]

Photo of the Moment: Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin

© extranoise

Mass Transit Strike Hits Berlin

It pulses through the city, pushing people from the outer suburbs to the heart of Mitte, from home to work, to school, to concerts and exhibits, to friends’ houses, to sports events, to anywhere you might want to go. In the winter cold and wet, Berlin’s public transit network is a warm way across town. [...]

Human Remains Found in Suitcase at Munich Airport

Evidently, it’s never a dull day when you’re an airport security officer. Officers at Munich airport were aghast when they uncovered a skull and bones in a suitcase belonging to two female passengers. The women were on a stopover on their way from Sao Paolo to Naples, and the reason for the morbid baggage was [...]

Air Travel Roulette: Germanwings Offers ‘Blind Booking’

Germanwings has a neat, if rather odd, promotion for people who love to travel but aren’t set on visiting a specific locale. For 19-39€ inclusive, customers starting from six German cities can make a ‘blind booking’ and get a cheap ticket to any one of a number of destinations to be revealed when the booking [...]

Berlin Hotel Offers World’s Largest Cylindrical Aquarium

World’s Largest Cylindrical Aquarium, Berlin At the Radisson SAS hotel in Berlin Mitte, you can zip up and down the building in an elevator that’s encased inside a giant aquarium. At 25 meters tall, and 11 meters wide, the aquarium is the largest acrylic glass cylinder in the world and contains 900,000 liters of sea [...]

Photo of the Moment: Near Dresden, Germany

© Stuck in Customs

Photo of the Moment: Industrial Gas Spheres, Berlin

© extranoise

Photo of the Moment: Rushing Past German History

© Stuck in Customs

Photo of the Moment: The Bridge of Death, Germany

© Stuck in Customs It’s like a frame out of Frank Miller’s Sin City.

These Things Take Time: Berlin’s ‘Lange Nacht der Museen’ Museum Crawl

Meredith Snyder feeds an unhealthy museum addicition with Berlin’s bi-annual, late night ‘Lange Nacht der Museen’ Museum Crawl.

Introducing the World’s First Nude Flight

In the former Communist ruled East Germany, naturists were a pampered lot. Nudism was not just popular, but authorized under the Commies. Now, a travel company aims to bring back those days of naked glory by offering special nude flights. The nudists who in the former Communist bloc country were known as Ossis, will be [...]

Bizarre Culture: Master Plunger Thrower on German Television [Video]

Somehow, the back flip and John Travolta-style disco split at the end seems fitting, no? You’re jealous. Don’t lie.

The Incredible Shrinking Beer Gut: Is Germany Losing Its Taste for Beer?

© Adam Baker Apparently, the land of busty beer house girls and Oktoberfest is fast losing its fascination for beer. Consumption of beer in Germany has declined rapidly over the past eight years, and 2007 was no different – 112.5 liters per person. That’s 29.7 gallons. Compare this to the eighties when Germans, then the [...]

German Pub Skirts Smoking Ban with “Butt Holes”

This is one trend that promises to be the butt of many jokes to come. (Get it? Seriously, we’re here all week) At the Maltermeister Turm in Goslar, Germany, the enterprising owner found a novel way to beat the new smoking ban, and accommodate customers who complained about having to freeze their butts off in [...]

See Berlin, Germany By … Go-Kart?

Kart4You (site’s in German, sorry) provides go kart rentals for “touring” downtown Berlin and environs. I don’t have any other info (in English anyway) except for this video: I’m sure the idea of sitting four inches off the ground in an eighty pound plastic and tin go kart while getting passed by a barrage of [...]

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