Aries: Germany. You know this is an Aries country the moment you get on the Autobahn and cars race past you when you're doing 80! Energy is the name of the game, in the disco sophistication of Berlin or the rustic hideaways of the Black Forest. Beer, beer, beer is your game at Oktoberfest, but you don't need Autumn to sample the goods -- don some leather shorts for summer hiking in the Alps and, when you're glowing with morning's climb, regale yourself with sausages and saurbraten or stuff yourself with "schweine mit stuffen" at a mountain inn overlooking a sparkling, crystal lake. Wildflowers are legendary, flooding meadowed peaks and peeking out of sun-dappled glades to reward the energetic climber. But when the Aries energy wears you out, try the beach promenade at Wilhelmshaven on the Baltic, where fresh and smoked fish, rollmops washed down with liebfraumilch, show you why "essen und trinken" is indeed the German way of life. Or, if inland waters are more to your taste, float down the Rhine past rugged, cliff-perched castles guarded by ancient Rhinemaidens and their riverborn Niebelungen gold.
