Word: eifel
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...German and American flags flutter from the tower that overlooks the quaint, newly restored town of Bitburg. The two flags symbolize the friendship that Bitburg's German residents and the 10,600 Americans connected with the U.S. air base there have come to associate with their haven in the Eifel hills near the Luxembourg border. Each year since the cemetery was consecrated in 1959, American and French military officials have joined Germans in a wreath-laying ceremony at Kolmeshöhe. This year Ronald Reagan intends to place a wreath there, and late last week, the cemetery guard had just finished...
Hikers in western Germany's hilly Eifel region should be careful where they walk - that creeping weed underfoot could be a sought-after (and very expensive) delicacy. German epicures are developing an appetite for native herbs and long-forgotten indigenous vegetables. This hunger is triggered by "the appeal of turning something simple and outdated into something special and new," says award-winning chef Dieter M?ller, whose three-star restaurant in Bergisch Gladbach's elegant Schlosshotel Lerbach offers such exotic treats as veal filet coated with turnip-rooted chervil and flat-leaf parsley...
...some regions, it's more than that. After the U.S. decided to close its military air base at Hahn in the rural Eifel region of western Germany in 1991, the local economy went into a steep decline. The withdrawal of around 15,000 troops meant that shops and hotels lost customers, and some 850 civilians at the base lost their jobs. Then came Ryanair. The airline looked at the base in 1999 and decided it was perfectly positioned to provide an international hub for its central European operations. The locals were thrilled. "When the Americans left the future looked bleak...