...for 9 days on an EF Tours trip with about 10 other friends, and it's going to freaking rock! I have 800 Dollars or 1/4th of a Euro if my converting skills are good. I already know I am buying the Amerika single from Rammstein. My dad wants me to buy him all that sexy booze filled German chocolate. Anything else I should look out for? (Not just purchases, but sights and things like that.)

Look out for those MG whores, man, they totally ruin the game. And for chrissakes, go for the flag, don't just camp there! CAMPING NEVER WON ANY WARS!

Er...too much DoD.

Anyways, it's .77-ish Dollars to one Euro...you're quite a bit off.

0.0003125 Euros to a Dollar I thought.

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I know I was keeeeding.

It's a shame you don't drink beer. German beer is so good.

Kannst du Deutsch sprechen?

Ja.

Actually,

Nej. Jag talar svenska inte deutsch.

American dollar is quite low compared to the Euro. I hope you enjoy the somewhat expensive prices.

Heh, my friends and I might get a cold one just to say we got a cold one :D. On the other hand I have friends who will try and get smashed every hour of the day.

So join them!

Munich is nice (the train station is awesome - looks like something out of a Bond movie) but I didn't like Vienna. Try to speak a few words of German to cold waiters and they will warm up instantly.

Make sure to sample fine dessert liquors in German restaurants. It'll show you just how stupid of hard liquors Americans drink. The various types of schnaps and brandy taste exquisite, unlike the liquid vomit most people get drunk on in the U.S.

The beer is interesting. I don't care for beer though so can't give a good opinion on if it's better or worse, but there's a wine country in Germany that prdocues very good wines. Give half-dry white wines a shot.

It's a hard to find drink if I recall, but get ahold of Bullenschlook (while in Germany). I'm not sure on that spelling. It's one of the most wonderfully tasting things you'll ever drink (sadly it's extremely high proof alcohol, so you shouldn't drink a lot).

I'd almost recommend to not bother with the alcoholic chocolates; buy Hachez (exact spelling, I still have a few boxes) chocloate. Their orange and strawberry extremely dark chocolates are to die for. They make these little leaf-shaped bits of chocolate that come in a fairly large box that are of very high quality and easier to eat than a normal bar of chocolate (since you don't have to break it up).

I don't recall the name of the river at the moment, but you can take a boat ride down a river in Germany that has like a dozen castles lining the banks high up on cliffs. There's many castles to visit, and most are really neat (a few have been raped by modern consumer culture).

Visit the cheese section of a super market; it's amazing how many types of cheese they offer over there!

Stay away from bread rolls. I don't think I've eaten bread that's so rock-hard and tooth-pulling as I did while in Germany. Getting soft bread was a rare treat.

If you wind up on the autobahn somewhere NOT near Berlin, you'll realize all the stuff about "no speed limit" is a big fat lie. Near Berlin it's less of a lie as there are decent stretches with no speed limit, but don't expect it to be some magically ultra-high-speed drive.

It's been a while, but I think it was Koln (Cologne) that's a very ugly industrial city. Most of the others are really beautiful.

Visit any huge cathedrals that you can.

Eat at nice restaurants and blow more money on food than on souvenirs.

QM

Go to Berlin, awesome city.

I'd dig it. As a matter of fact, I may be going to Europe for studying abroad in a year or two.

Berlin is actually a 2 day extended trip that costs almost $600!!! That's only 2 days for the cost of almost half the 9 day trip! So no way I am doing that. Too bad though, I really wanted to see Berlin.

I missed seeing Berlin for similar reasons. It's way out of the way and expensive. =(

QM

Das ist toll! Wenn du zu Duetschland gehen, kauft ein Weiss Chocolate Bar. Es ist gut. Ich habe ins Duetschland nicht gefahren, als sagt mir was ist es.

Translators have trouble with grammer. And so do I. Anyways:


"That is great! When you go to Germany, buy one of those white chocolate bars. It is good. I have never been to Germany, so tell me what it's like."

Stoß
(Bump) Impact???

I hear Austrian country side is beautiful. Also enjoy the heavy dark beers of Germany, very very good.

wich town in germany???

I know you were kidding, but I'm not so sure you were trying to say that the Euro is 3200 times more valuable than the dollar...

tysk. ¬

You can find the greatest cathedral in Cologne. The Kölner Dom.
I work near it and always go by it on my way to work and it is enormously huge. And they are still in the process of building it!

I am 1/4 german and another 1/4 Austria-Hungry

Ich will zu garmany gehen, kann mein Vater Deutsch sprechen