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Mountain Coaster Black Forest

June 9, 2010

There are many mountain coasters in Germany and specifically in the Black Forest. Many of them aren’t that exciting. The one we really like is the Hasenhorn Mountain Coaster in the town of Todtnau. The ride is almost 3 km long and super exciting with tons of sharp bends and a few mesmerising 360º turns. [...]

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Celebrations in the Black Forest

June 7, 2010

If you are not sure when to visit this area you might want to see if there is a public holiday during the time frame you are considering for your Black Forest vacation. If that’s the case if it always a good time to visit. Because public holidays usually mean that there are tons of [...]

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our latest addition: Schnaps tasting tour

May 25, 2010

What’s the most important thing when visiting the Black Forest?  Eat a big piece of the world-famous Black Forest Cake, right?  Well only authentic Black Forest cakes contains original Black Forest Kirschwasser – a distilled schnaps.
We have added a Schnaps Tasting Tour to our Black Forest vacation tours. There are more than 14,000 approved distilleries in the Black Forest [...]

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French mountain biker wins the Black Forest race

May 23, 2010

If you are lucky enough to be in the Black Forest this holiday weekend (Monday is a holiday!) we hope you were able to stop by at the Mountain Bike World Cup in Offenburg today. With sunshine, blue skies and 25 degrees Celsius it was a perfect day for this race.
Have a look at some [...]

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Spargelzeit is here

May 21, 2010

Spargel (shpag’-el) is the German name for asparagus and if you have been to Germany in Spring you know that April marks the beginning of Spargelzeit (asparagus season). Whereas green asparagus is available in the US year-round, (white) asparagus in Germany is very seasonal. Just as apples are a sign of fall season, asparagus marks [...]

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World’s best mountain bike event coming up in May

April 28, 2010

Voted as the world’s best mountain bike event of the year  the Mountain Bike World Cup is coming up on May 22 and May 23rd 2010 in the town of Offenburg in the Black Forest.
The preparation of this year’s 5.2 km long Mountain Bike circuit has begun about 5 months ago and is known for [...]

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Wurstsalat – a local specialty worth trying

March 29, 2010

If you have visited the Black Forest before you might have noticed a dish in many local restaurants called ‘Wurstsalat‘. Literally translated to ‘sausage salad‘ you might have hesitated to try the dish (seriously – do you want to eat a sausage salad??) and probably ordered some more well-known German specialty like a Schnitzel. [...]

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The Black Forest PomPom Hat or what exactly is a Bollenhut?

March 10, 2010

The Black Forest is not only being associated with Black Forest Cake, Black Forest Ham and Cuckoo Clocks but also with the so-called Bollenhut – a PomPom Hat which comes in 2 colors. The Bollenhut consists of 11 handmade pompoms (14 pompoms altogether but only 11 are visible). The hat can be up to 2 [...]

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Vote for the BlackForest Germany to become one of the New7Wonders of Nature

February 22, 2010

New7Wonders of Nature is an initiative started in 2007 when more than 440 locations in 220 countries were submitted to be considered as one of the ‘New7Wonders of Nature’, criteria to be a breathtakingly beautiful, natural place.
In July 2009 it was announced that the BlackForest Germany is one of the elite 28 Official Finalists in [...]

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Carnival season is coming to an end

February 16, 2010

Carnival Season in Germany is coming to an end this week. This past weekend celebrations and carnival parades were held in almost every town in the Black Forest.  Like thousands of other people we visited the ‘Schuttige Umzug‘ in the Black Forest town of Elzach which is considered one of the highlights of the Swabian-Alemanic [...]

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