The Euro trades just about dead even with the dollar and that's down from about $1.30 not so long ago. The pound is now trading for $1.36 and that's down from $1.75 two years ago. Barring a total political collapse, you aren't likely to find a better deal but if there really is a collapse then you will probably be too busy throwing stones trying to defend yourself from the other cavemen survivors.
As informed by Kannafoot, European travel does not appear to be zooming so my speculation is people are afraid of terrorists behind every lamp pole. That wouldn't be surprising when many American don't get brave unless they have guns.
If not for the exchange rates, I might have been able to survive over there but the rates were so punishing they chewed huge holes in my minimal funds plus every dime anyone managed to send. Since likely you will be traveling on a holiday budget, you should be much less affected by it but those kinds of mark-ups are expensive regardless of your budget.
Since the rates are currently outstanding, no-one in Europe I know has ever even seen a terrorist, and there doesn't appear to be a tourist boom coming from this, the time seems just about as propitious as it can possibly get. The crowding for places which are of high-appeal to tourists should not be as bad as it can be and I would go back there in a second if my situation were what it was when I went the last time.
(Ed: you don't do all that much!)
But such a cool place to do nothing at all if that's your purpose. My main problem in Germany would be preventing my mouth from hanging open as I walk around in something which, from my perspective, is as close as possible to Disneyland. In fact, the castle in Disneyland was modeled after one in Bavaria.
Germans put flowers on their cows when they bring them down from the mountain pastures where they summer. The flowers are to show the success the herder had with his animals as it's easy to lose one up there. If a cow wanders off and ends up in Italy you will likely never see it again and doing that is an easy thing in the Alps.
These kinds of things are the nationalism we love as we don't want to see military as part of it. There is no national culture in killing things or it's a nation which does not deserve to exist. The history of German music goes back for centuries with some of the most important music of all time coming from the area of Germany and Austria.
There is so much!
Franz Zehendmaier (no idea who he is) wears a Gamsbart and probably you have seen some variation of his Bavarian hat.
Late-breaking news: Cat advises he owns a highly-successful bicycle shop and he has ridden a scooter down Mount Kilimanjaro. By the way, that's a kick scooter so no motor. He said it was tiring kicking up there but it was a gas coming back down as in fast, fast, fast.
The story on the hat is not quite so cool, tho, because Gamsbart means goat's beard and Cat tells me the hair from that beard is incredibly soft. Maybe you ask how they get the beard and that's the part which isn't so cool since the goat (i.e. mountain antelope) does not survive. That's illegal now but some measure of poaching still occurs. There is hope for the survival of the hats with various types of synthetics.
Note: the animal is known as a chamois, although not commonly, in America and these are among the creatures which can walk absolutely anywhere. I have seen video of them walking up the sheer face of a dam. Usually Americans call them 'goats' as well.
As informed by Kannafoot, European travel does not appear to be zooming so my speculation is people are afraid of terrorists behind every lamp pole. That wouldn't be surprising when many American don't get brave unless they have guns.
If not for the exchange rates, I might have been able to survive over there but the rates were so punishing they chewed huge holes in my minimal funds plus every dime anyone managed to send. Since likely you will be traveling on a holiday budget, you should be much less affected by it but those kinds of mark-ups are expensive regardless of your budget.
Since the rates are currently outstanding, no-one in Europe I know has ever even seen a terrorist, and there doesn't appear to be a tourist boom coming from this, the time seems just about as propitious as it can possibly get. The crowding for places which are of high-appeal to tourists should not be as bad as it can be and I would go back there in a second if my situation were what it was when I went the last time.
(Ed: you don't do all that much!)
But such a cool place to do nothing at all if that's your purpose. My main problem in Germany would be preventing my mouth from hanging open as I walk around in something which, from my perspective, is as close as possible to Disneyland. In fact, the castle in Disneyland was modeled after one in Bavaria.
Germans put flowers on their cows when they bring them down from the mountain pastures where they summer. The flowers are to show the success the herder had with his animals as it's easy to lose one up there. If a cow wanders off and ends up in Italy you will likely never see it again and doing that is an easy thing in the Alps.
These kinds of things are the nationalism we love as we don't want to see military as part of it. There is no national culture in killing things or it's a nation which does not deserve to exist. The history of German music goes back for centuries with some of the most important music of all time coming from the area of Germany and Austria.
There is so much!
Franz Zehendmaier (no idea who he is) wears a Gamsbart and probably you have seen some variation of his Bavarian hat.
Late-breaking news: Cat advises he owns a highly-successful bicycle shop and he has ridden a scooter down Mount Kilimanjaro. By the way, that's a kick scooter so no motor. He said it was tiring kicking up there but it was a gas coming back down as in fast, fast, fast.
The story on the hat is not quite so cool, tho, because Gamsbart means goat's beard and Cat tells me the hair from that beard is incredibly soft. Maybe you ask how they get the beard and that's the part which isn't so cool since the goat (i.e. mountain antelope) does not survive. That's illegal now but some measure of poaching still occurs. There is hope for the survival of the hats with various types of synthetics.
Note: the animal is known as a chamois, although not commonly, in America and these are among the creatures which can walk absolutely anywhere. I have seen video of them walking up the sheer face of a dam. Usually Americans call them 'goats' as well.
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