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Happy Christmas = Frohe Weihnachten everyone, thanks for supporting Germany-Today throughout the year, expect great things to come!

Sam

On the run up to Christmas we have something special this year; an Advent Calendar!  Click on the door to find a special surprise, maybe a Christmas word, picture or download for you.  So come back everyday and check it out!  The advent Calendar will stay at the top of the page, but posts will continue below.

Hi everyone, for the last few days I’ve been visiting Bonn, taking part in a UK-German Connection Media Seminar.  What a nice place to go, I truly recommend it!  Some of the places I went to were the ice skating rink, christmas market and Das Haus der Geschichte! Here are the photos…

There will be more coming soon!

I need some luck tomorrow so here is some lucky phrases

Glück haben / Schwein haben / Dusel haben = to be lucky / to strike it lucky / to luck out.

der Glückstag = lucky day.

von Glück reden können = to count oneself lucky.

ein Glückskind / ein Sonntagskind = to be born lucky.

jdm. die Daumen drücken = to keep your fingers crossed.

der Glückspilz / das Glücksschwein = lucky devil.

der Zufallstreffer = lucky guess.

Hello!  Sorry about the shortage of posts recently You know how busy life can get!  Good news though!  We have moved to a supafast new server so you can visit Germany-Today even quicker and there is a new theme coming soon!  I am going to Cologne on 10th December, which I am really looking forward to.  No doubt I will be taking lots of pictures of the beautiful River Rhine and the magical Christmas Market!

Oh nein, nicht schon wieder = Oh no, not again.

Here’s the banner I made for my school reception, we are miles away from Berlin but still celebrating The Fall Of The Wall!  What do you think?

The twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is being celebrated today with Domino Aktion,where a set of 1,000 styrofoam dominoes falls along the route where the wall once stood. The 2.3 metre high blocks, mostly painted by schoolchildren from around Germany, are lined up over 1.5 kilometres, passing the Brandeburg Gate and the German Parliament building.

Dominoes at night

Hi everyone, I’ve just got back from Berlin What a trip!  I will write about it next week, because I’m going to New York tomorrow (yes, I’m very tired!)  Enjoy the gallery and comment with your experiences of the capital

Located on the northern German island of Usedom, this creative upside down house was designed by Klaudiusz Golos and Sebastion Mikuciuk for the Edutainment exhibition company.

The fact that everything inside the house is also upside down, makes this unusual house even more special.

Read On for more pics!

Crazy!

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