Truly German – Episode 02 – 14th August 2009

August 14, 2009 By 1 Comment

Truly German is a new podcast that talks about the news in Germany.  Sometimes this will by national news, maybe political, but we will also be covering some local topics.

We want to have some fun at the same time, so part of the podcast is our Länderquiz – in which my contestant has to guess in which Bundesland three different news stories took place in.

This week the topics are:

  1. Michael Schumacher cancels his comeback
  2. Merkel and Steinmeier to stage TV duel
  3. U55 in Berlin

The quiz covers the following stories:

  1. Runneburg tower to be repaired
  2. Customs officials confiscate 360 lollies
  3. HDTV to start in Germany

Please listen to the second episode and tell us what you think:

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Teuro

August 12, 2009 By Leave a Comment

“Teuro” was selected by the Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache as the “Wort des Jahres” (Word of the Year) in 2002.

Teuro is a so-called “Portmanteau” and is made up of the words “teuer” (expensive) and “Euro”.

It refers to the feeling that people have in Germany that things became more expensive after the Euro was introduced at the beginning of 2002.

Part of the problem is caused by people dividing by 2, whereas the exact exchange rate was 1.95583.  But in many areas – eating out being one of the most common examples – the prices were noticed to have gone up considerably.  It is often commented, that the prices were almost the same figures in Euro as in DM – just with a different currency sign.

Another factor is that price rises since 2002 go much faster, as increasing a price by 1EUR is a lot more than increasing by 1DM.

To hear a simple explanation and a short discussion in German, listen to the podcast:

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Mit Ryanair von Deutschland nach Lanzarote fliegen

August 11, 2009 By 1 Comment

Vor einigen Tagen hat Ryanair angekündigt, dass sie in diesem Winter von zwei deutschen Flughäfen aus nach Lanzarote fliegen wird.

Ab Oktober werden zwei Flüge pro Woche jeweils von und nach Frankfurt-Hahn und Düsseldorf-Weeze starten und Ryanair verspricht niedrige Preise auf den Routen, dank 100%iger Ermäßigung der Flughafensteuer von “AENA” die den Flughafen Arrecife betreibt.

Allerdings gibt es dabei zwei große “Aber” zu beachten. Derzeit sind die Flüge nur bis März 2010 verfügbar. In einem Zitat von dem stellvertretenden CEO von Ryanair Michael Crawley heißt es, dass die Flüge nach dem oben genannten Termin nur weitergehen wenn die Ermäßigung der Flughafensteuer ebenfalls verlängert wird.

Die andere Sache die potenzielle Reisende berücksichtigen sollten, ist der Standort der Flughäfen. Düsseldorf-Weeze ist 75km von Düsseldorf entfernt und Frankfurt-Hahn ist erstaunliche 126km von Frankfurt weg. Es wird sich zeigen ob der Mehraufwand zu den Flughäfen hin zu kommen, sich rentiert oder ob die Touristen ihre bisherigen Fluglinien treu bleiben.

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