Germany

Germany's second largest island, Usedom is a picturesque, low-lying landscape of rolling meadows, woods and lakes dotted with thatched cottages, windmills and medieval churches. The island, 445 sq km (174 sq mi) in area, views to the northeast of the lagoon ...

According to the most recent reports, Germany has recently started its Autumn/Winter campaign, which aims to inspire visitors to go there and experience its unique and sustainable culture. According to the promotion, with a focus on pristine landscapes, excellent cuisine, metropolitan ...

The Alpine Pass route is one of the great European hikes. It crosses Switzerland from Sargans in the east on the Lichtenstein border, to Montreux in the west on Lac Leman. It crosses sixteen passes along its 354-km (220-mi) length, and ...

Reichenau Island lies in lake Constance in southern Germany. For more than 1,000 years, the Benedictine complex here was one of the most important religious centres in Europe. It has been listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site because it ...

A Schengen area is a group of 26 European countries that have agreed to abolish checks at their common borders and is commonly referred to as the "free movement zone." There is no doubt that the whole Europe continent is full ...

The oldest of Germany's National Parks, the Bayerische Wald winds around the Bavarian forest peaks of Falkenstein, Rachel and Lusen along the border with the Czech Republic, it is the largest protected forest area in central Europe. Nowhere else between the ...

For 100km (62 mi) across central Germany, the Harz Mountains divide the northern lowlands from the southern uplands. The region has benefited from 20th-century politics, which left it virtually uninhabited and provided its 27,400 hectares of evergreen and broadleaf woodlands, its ...

Rising in the Czech Republic, the River Elbe enters Germany via a deep and shadowy gorge sliced through the Erzgebirge (Ore Mountains), then flows to the North sea. For most of its 720 miles (1160 km) the river is intensely serious. ...

The world is changing and we all know it. One of the biggest examples of change is that many countries offer Digital Nomad Visas so that people can work remotely in different environments and different countries. Explorers who want to travel ...

Trees and fields as far as the eye can see, an occasional house and village in-between - train rides can be so serene. Sophia Klimpel is certainly enjoying her journey from Germany's Saarbrucken to Ljubljana in Slovenia, watching the countryside fly ...

Germany has ended its strict rules for travelers entering from a series of countries with particularly high rates of Omicron infections. The nine countries, including Britain and South Africa - as well as several other southern African states - had been placed ...

German air carrier Lufthansa plans to cut 33,000 flights from its winter schedule, about 10% of its total flight plan. CEO Carsten Spohr told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper that there had been a sharp downturn in bookings, particularly in the mid-January ...