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Post Report of the Day

Frankfurt, Germany

What is your home city/country? How long is the trip to post from there, with what connections? How easy/difficult is it to travel to this city/country?

Washington, DC. Frequent direct flights (two nonstop daily flights on United, one nonstop daily flight on Lufthansa), only about 8 hours.

What is the air quality like at post (good/moderate/bad)? Are there seasonal air quality issues? Does the air quality have an impact on health?

Very good, better than most major cities I've been to (including DC). Germans take green technology and emissions controls pretty seriously, the rest of the world could learn a thing or two from them. That...