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Charlemagne in space
To boldly go where no emperor has gone before. Charlemagne is everywhere to be seen in the city.
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Children in Aachen – always a top priority
After each meal, Mrs Cow comes to visit. “Moo!”, says two-year-old Benjamin, squealing with pleasure as his childminder wipes the jam off his little hands with a cloth in the ...
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Home, sweet home
The view sweeps, unhindered, over the roofs of Aachen to the Cathedral (Aachener Dom). Apart from birdsong and the sound of the wind wafting through the large potted plants on ...
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I was at home here right away
Aachen is an ideal size of city – one where you really want to feel at home.
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Using contacts for a better world
Sometimes life-plans are turned upside down from one day to the next. I originally came to Aachen to study, with a view to taking over my father’s consulting engineering practice ...
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Tongue-twisting translingualism – let’s talk “Öcher Platt”
In theory, there are three ways to work your way into the hearts of Aacheners: language, business – or appealing to their emotions. To all practical purposes, though, you can ...
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How green is my valley
To call it the Four Gorges Dam Project might be a bit over the top, but four highland reservoirs near Aachen form a very significant part of the local German ...
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The team of hearts
Young lads raided their piggy-banks, elderly men reached for their savings, pensioners put aside a few Deutschmarks (in that pre-euro world) and collecting boxes jingled their way round the pubs ...
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See, amid the winter’s snow
As The Eagles once sang, “You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave” – something proven year after year by over 1,000 Aacheners whose lives ...
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Everything with chips
Potatoes, of all things! Despite its Latin name solanum tuberosum, this South American Indian root vegetable hardly prompts thoughts of international cuisine.
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Rolls with crumble topping
Reisfladen (Tarte-au-riz) is a true European dish – equally at home in the parts of Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands that converge near Aachen, and a big hit in the ...
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