Beach holidays complete with sun loungers, sun cream and cold beers in the shade are probably not the first thing travelers associate with Germany. But the country of beer, bread and trains running ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Traveller, Londoner, trend-spotter. Even though the only things that stand sentinel on Germany’s beaches are now strandkorb, the ...

Hoping to get away with less than the full monty on your next trip to Germany? Think again, say officials in the Baltic Sea city of Rostock. Last week, the city introduced a new regulation allowing ...

Now that the dogs days of summer are here, Germans are flocking to the beaches of their long Baltic and North Sea coasts to escape the city heat. But just because you are on holiday, it does not mean ...

From the legendary city lido at Wannsee, immortalized in the 1951 German pop hit “Pack die Badehose ein” by Conny Froboess, to the smaller city beaches at Plötzensee in the Wedding district or the ...