No hiking, no hang-gliding, no helium balloons, the G7 is in town

Residents of the German town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen are annoyed. Some say the gathering of world leaders, and all its 'brimborium', is Merkel's revenge

In Garmisch-Partenkirchen they are battening down the hatches. Many restaurants and shops in this Alpine idyll have closed their doors and boarded their windows, the fear of what the coming days might hold greater than any sense of opportunity their owners might have to make money out of the thousands of anti-globalisation protesters, journalists and security guards who will descend on this Bavarian rural community over the coming days for the G7.

While Garmisch-Partenkirchen is used to holding world ski-jumping championships, this is its first international economic summit.

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