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84. Entire menus devoted to spargel (a little different from Betsy's listing) 85. That you can bring your canine companion on the U-Bahn. 86. Enjoying a three hour dinner. 87. Touring the former Stassi headquarters in Leipzig. 88. Warm curd pancakes with applesauce.

89. Kloster Eberbach 90. Pergamon Museum

91. Lots of monasteries that brew their own beer! 92. This may be a repeat...a zillion kinds of beer, all excellent! Beers for each season.

The little rococo Amalienburg on the grounds of the Nymphenburg in Munich. That first glimpse of the Alps as you're driving south.

Potato Dumplings (my mouth starts watering just thinking about them.) Spaetzle (YUM, especially with sauted mushrooms!!!!) Can't wait to return! Dick

98. Seeing decorated maypoles. 99. The autobahn. 100. Walking the grounds of Sans Souci.

well, made it to 100. anyone for 150?

101. The freedom to sunbathe completely naked in public parks.

I love strolling in the public parks looking at the nude sunbathers! Metoo

OOOPS! Be careful before you start taking your socks off! You might get arrested for indecent exposure! They sunbathe nude in some areas of a public park in Munich (Englische Garten) but I've never seen it elsewhere. You can also sunbathe in your birthday-suit in designated areas of some public swimming pools. But again - not everywhere.

Stella, I saw lots of nude sunbathers at a public park in Freiburg a few years ago. One was actually lying in the backyard of a nearby apartment complex.

102. apfel strudel warm out of the oven. 103. smoked trout in Meersburg. 104. having a glass of beer on my balcony watching the boats go by in Cochem. OK its dinner time here and food is on the mind... 105. Burg Eltz 106. the tidiness of the country... ********ps... To the poster who had great black Forest cake...where did you find it ? Looked everywhere, including the Balck Forest.

In Munich at least, you can go nude in any park. Most nudies tend to hang out in the sanctioned part of the English Garden but they're also in other parks and on the banks of the Isar. I don't think they'd arrest anyone for walking around town nude, much less sitting in a park.

To the poster looking for the the Black Forest Cherry cake (Schwarzwaelderkirschtorte) in the Black Forest - you could't have looked very far. But be comforted - I am attaching the recipe. Black Forest Gateau Ingredients: 3 large eggs 4 1/2 oz caster sugar 3 oz plain flour 1/2 oz cocoa powder 1 425g/15oz can black cherries 2 tsp arrowroot 1 pint double cream 2-3 tbsps kirsch or brandy 3 Cadbury's Flakes Method: Beat the eggs and sugar together until very pale and very thick and the beater leaves a trail when lifted. Sift the flour and cocoa together twice and fold into the egg mixture. Pour into a greased and lined 23cm/9" round deep cake tin. Bake in a preheated moderately hot oven (190C/375F/GM5) for about 30 mins or until firm to the touch. Cool on a wire rack. When the cake is cold cut it into three layers. Drain the cherries, reserving the can syrup. Mix 1/2 pint of the syrup (adding water if necessary) with the arrowroot in a saucepan and bring to the boil, stirring. Simmer until thickened and clear. Halve the cherries, remove the stones (pits) and add them to the pan, reserving a few for decoration. Cool. Whip the cream until thick. Place the bottom cake layer on a serving plate and spread with half the cherry mixture and another layer of cream. Cover with the second cake layer. Sprinkly with the kirsch or brandy, then spread over the remaining cherry mixture and another layer of cream. Put the top layer of the cake carefully on the cream. Reserving a little cream for decoration, spread the remainder over the top and sides of the cake. Make a decorative pattern on the top. Flake or grate the chocolate and press most of it onto the sides of the cake. Pipe the reserved cream in whirls on top of the cake and decorate with the remaining chocolate and reserved cherries. Leave the cake for 2-3 hours before serving. (Serves 8-10)

Church bells that are so gorgeous they vibrate right through your body. Ludwig Beck department store in Munich The brief, intense euphoria which follows the first crunchy bite of a schweinbraten sandwich Beer and schmaltz brod under the chestnut trees of the Hofbrau gardern in Munich The fresh-squeezed blood orange juice in the Viktualienmarkt in Munich Real gummi bears

Germany is the best part of the E.U.!

# ? Heidelberg castle from the Neckar. -People obeying the rules of the road. - Women over 50 dying their hair every imaginable color of red, magenta, eggplant, fuschia.... - gluhvein - apfelscnapps (my spelling is horrible today) - spaetzle mit kase

Bowie could not have written "Heroes" anywhere but Berlin...