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Holy summer of '63
Be it the word for ‘dead leaves’ in German, holiness or simple Latin - how European use of the word 'holiday' has evolved
An East German childhood: ‘People took off their clothes to express their freedom’
West Germans often subscribe to a pretty grim idea of life growing up behind the wall in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Yet although East German children had few toys and less holidays, were they really less happy than their western counterparts? Eik, 29, recalls his Soviet upbringing
holiday, childhood, eastern germany, gdr, education system, berlin wall, school system
The organic army: joining the WWOOFer volunteers
It’s wet and it’s muddy, not to mention the slugs. I've come to England, where World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms first began, to find out what's behind the mysterious appeal of the green holiday alternative known as WWOOFing...
holiday, environment, united kingdom, wwoofing, green, volunteer, animals
European idioms: a pumpkin this Halloween
Pumpkins in expressions can be saying no to a date in Spanish, being dumb in Italian or sleeping early in English - weekly language expressions
holiday, insult, tower of babel, united states, food, chocolate, languages
German nudists off Poland's Baltic beaches!
The nudists have always been there, but until Poland entered into the Schengen agreement on 1 January 2008, Usedom beach, which lies between the German and Polish towns of Ahlbeck and Swinoujscie, was divided by a wire-mesh fence
holiday, baltic sea, nudismo, schengen, feature, germany, isola di usedom
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