The Local Germany https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Swan Late: Mourning bird holds up German trains A swan mourning the death of its companion on a German railway track held up 23 trains for almost an hour and had to be removed by firefighters using special equipment, police said. https://www.thelocal.de/20201229/swan-late-mourning-bird-holds-up-german-trains Tue, 29 Dec 2020 10:13:05 +0100 swan-late-mourning-bird-holds-up-german-trains German word of the day: Die Bescherung One word in front of this word of the day can change everything... https://www.thelocal.de/20191215/german-advent-word-of-the-day-die-bescherung Sun, 15 Dec 2019 06:00:00 +0100 german-advent-word-of-the-day-die-bescherung Why on earth do these 8 weird German museums exist? Visited all of the usual tourist hot spots and now looking for something a little more niche? Take a look through our list of the quirkiest museums Germany has to offer. https://www.thelocal.de/20170322/germanys-quirkiest-museums Wed, 22 Mar 2017 15:53:44 +0100 germanys-quirkiest-museums