Marketplace Help Search One of the European countries least visited by Britons, Germany has many attractions, such as the Bavarian Alps in the south, the Black Forest and picturesque castles along the Rhine valley.
Berlin is again the capital - cool and increasingly trendy with spectacular modern buildings.
Good beer if you like proper lager. The vast Prora hotel, with its 11,000 rooms, was built on the island of R gen to help hammer the individuality out of Germans. Now it's a haven for eccentrics and refuseniks, writes William Cook. Jonathan Glancey goes for a church crawl and discovers some of Europe's forgotten jewels. But what I'm really looking forward to is the shopping.