Germany

Germany is Europe's largest economy and has the largest population after Russia. It has the fifth largest economy in the world. Germany is most known due to the two world wars in the first half of the 20th century. Due to the advent of the cold war Germany was divided into two parts: the western Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the eastern German Democratic Republic. Germany was reunited at the end of the cold war, in 1990 which lead to the fall of the Berlin wall.
According to the Fortune Globe 500 (an annual ranking of the top 500 corporations worldwide) 37 of those companies are headquartered in Germany. Amongst them companies such as, Audi, Mercedes, BMW, Volkswagen and Nivea.
During this journey we stayed in Berlin, the capital of Germany. Many of German buildings were devastated during the Second World War and the remainings were demolished during 1950-1960. Afterwards new residential and business quarters were built along with new roads. Due to these demolishing a huge part of Germany's architectural history was erased.
While my colleagues were attending a business meeting I took the opportunity to explore the city. My first stop was the The East Side Gallery which is an open-air exhibition of art painted directly on the last existing portions of the Berlin Wall. The Gallery consists of 105 paintings by artists from all over the world, painted in 1990 on the east side of the Berlin Wall. It is a memorial for freedom and a reminder of the division of Germany.

Afterwards I spend the afternoon strolling through the The Kurfürstendamm, which is a boulevard comparable with the  Champs-Élysées. This boulevard houses some of the world famous designers shops and again I did some shopping. I've bought two pair of jeans at  7 for all Mankind reminding myself that our next stop was going to get colder. We still have two stops on our schedule: Denmark and Norway and then we are going back home.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/gm.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin