Upon arrival in Passau you will be in Germany.
Germany Facts:
Telephone code is 49. Electric is 220 Volts for outlets. Currency is Euros. Use of credit cards is low. Restaurants, shops, beer halls, and wineries take credit cards. For taxis you will need cash. Exchange services in banks is plentiful. Tipping is 10 percent rounded to the next Euro. In a restaurant just walk-in and take any seat. Water is not served automatically. You must order water it will be mineral and you will be charged. There are no bottomless cups of coffee in Germany. The drinking age is 12. Casual clothes and jeans are worn just about everywhere.
Children sometimes run around naked in the summer. Public Restrooms are WC (Water Closets) and you will be charged .60 to 1.10 Euros for its use. The good news is that this is what keeps the bathrooms clean,
Foods for breakfast are rolls, salami, dry sausage, hard cheeses, butter, chocolate spread (Nutella), honey, jam, sliced tomato, sliced cucumber, meats, and a hard boiled egg.
Coffee and Cake Time is around 3:00 PM. Germany has almost 1,000 different cakes with the most popular being Black Forest Cake.
Lunch and Dinner foods are: sauerkraut, sauerbraten (pot roast), parsnips, pumpkins, cabbage, yellow carrots, white sausage (veal sausage), mustard, pretzels, noddle dishes, sausage, salad, Swabian dressed white onions, lentils, spatzle, Nurenburger Bratwurst, potato salad, and potato pancakes.
Almost every major area has it’s own beer. Try Pils, Helles, Dunkelbier, Boch, Kolsch, Hefeweizen, etc. Try them all.
White wines are: Muller, Thurgau, Reisling, and Silvanees. Wine regions are: Mosel, Rheinhessen, Rhingau, Pfaltz and Baden.
In other words eat and drink your way though Germany.
Germany was separated into two countries following WWII. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, West and East Germany reunited. Today there are 16 states. The Capitol was moved from Bonn to Berlin.
The size of the country is 357,022 square Km or 137,847 square miles. The population is 81.5 million and the language is German.