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		<title>Inverse Customs: When Germans Do Precisely the Opposite</title>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2013/05/13/inverse-customs-when-germans-do-precisely-the-opposite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 07:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HF</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[History and culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[daily culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daily customs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hyde]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Expats in Germany and the other German-speaking countries are often surprised by a type of culture shock I call &#8220;inverse customs.&#8221; These are practices that are either the exact opposite of, or extremely different from the same custom in the US. Expats quickly learn this fact of life abroad: There is always more than one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Käsespätzle again please &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2013/05/06/not-kasespatzle-again-please/</link>
		<comments>http://german-way.com/blog/2013/05/06/not-kasespatzle-again-please/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 08:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe D</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips, advice, suggestions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chloe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eating out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organic food]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://german-way.com/blog/?p=2441</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The night we moved to Berlin we drove around in a snowstorm desperately trying to find a restaurant with a kitchen still open at 10pm on a Tuesday evening. Not knowing the neighbourhood, we dashed into the first warmly lit place we saw, hoping not to slip on the thick crusts of ice covering the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incorporating a New Worldview, Into Your Old Life</title>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2013/04/29/incorporating-a-new-worldview-into-your-old-life/</link>
		<comments>http://german-way.com/blog/2013/04/29/incorporating-a-new-worldview-into-your-old-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JessicaL</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Expat issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History and culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips, advice, suggestions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JessicaL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[repatriating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[repatriation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reverse culture shock]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s fairly common to feel like an alien at times, while living in a foreign country. But now, when I come home to Canada for my regular summer visits, I often feel like a bit of an alien here too. In recent conversations with family and friends at home, I am finding that my opinions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking to Buy? Take Your Time</title>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2013/04/22/looking-to-buy-take-your-time/</link>
		<comments>http://german-way.com/blog/2013/04/22/looking-to-buy-take-your-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Expat issues]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Red tape and bureaucracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips, advice, suggestions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apartment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home ownership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[house]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[property]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog has covered the topic of renting an apartment many times (in posts by Hyde and Chloe) and I have written a bit on the topic of home ownership. But where do you start if you are looking to buy property in Germany? The first stop for anyone interested in property is immobilienscout24.de &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>50 Years of the Korean Diaspora in Germany</title>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2013/04/15/50-years-of-the-korean-diaspora-in-germany/</link>
		<comments>http://german-way.com/blog/2013/04/15/50-years-of-the-korean-diaspora-in-germany/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jjpark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[German language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History and culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guest workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jane]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an interesting anniversary being marked here in Germany right now that means something to me. It&#8217;s one of those events that leads you to think about all of the parallel lives you could have led: &#8220;What would my life have been like if my parents had never moved to the US from Korea?&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drinking Kaffee in Germany</title>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2013/04/08/drinking-kaffee-in-germany/</link>
		<comments>http://german-way.com/blog/2013/04/08/drinking-kaffee-in-germany/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 07:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HF</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[coffee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dallmayr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drinks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EduScho]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hyde]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italian roast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jacobs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“You can tell when you have crossed the frontier into Germany because of the badness of the coffee.” - Edward VII (1841-1910, son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert)* I&#8217;m a devoted coffee drinker. I drink it wherever I am, especially in Europe. I&#8217;ve had coffee in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the UK and even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A different type of renting</title>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2013/04/01/a-different-type-of-renting/</link>
		<comments>http://german-way.com/blog/2013/04/01/a-different-type-of-renting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 07:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe D</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Expat issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips, advice, suggestions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apartments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berlin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chloe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[estate agents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expat life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flat hunting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homelife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[making an international move]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://german-way.com/blog/?p=2393</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The friends we left behind in London all had one thing in common &#8211; their desire to get themselves on the property ladder. Had we stayed I suspect we would have started hunting around for somewhere to buy in just the same way. It is simply what you do when you&#8217;re a young professional in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For the Expat-Pet-People</title>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2013/03/25/for-the-expat-pet-people/</link>
		<comments>http://german-way.com/blog/2013/03/25/for-the-expat-pet-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JessicaL</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Expat issues]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Red tape and bureaucracy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hiking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jessica]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://german-way.com/blog/?p=2372</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems that I have blogged quite a bit about dogs, here at The German Way Expat Blog (There&#8217;s a Dog in the Pub, Moving with Max). The reason for this is because my evolution as an expat in German-speaking Europe, has coincided with my evolution as a dog owner. This is no surprise of course, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Put Away Your Checkbook</title>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2013/03/18/put-away-your-checkbook/</link>
		<comments>http://german-way.com/blog/2013/03/18/put-away-your-checkbook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Red tape and bureaucracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The euro and money matters]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Work and employment matters]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://german-way.com/blog/?p=2362</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Of all the things one can miss about a country after departure, the banking system probably shouldn&#8217;t be at the top of the list. For this ex-expat, however, it is actually one of the things I miss about Germany. The banking system there has arrived in the digital age, and North America is left in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Luisa Weiss&#8217; Advice for the Expat in Germany</title>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2013/03/11/luisa-weiss-advice-for-the-expat-in-germany/</link>
		<comments>http://german-way.com/blog/2013/03/11/luisa-weiss-advice-for-the-expat-in-germany/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jjpark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book reviews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Wednesday Chef]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Monday, but I got to talk to the creator and author behind the popular food blog The Wednesday Chef, Luisa Weiss, last week. She&#8217;s also the author of the best-selling memoir, My Berlin Kitchen which came out late last year, and as you may have guessed, she lives in Berlin. Luisa isn&#8217;t an expat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The East Side Gallery and Berlin&#8217;s Benign Neglect</title>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2013/03/04/the-east-side-gallery-and-berlins-benign-neglect/</link>
		<comments>http://german-way.com/blog/2013/03/04/the-east-side-gallery-and-berlins-benign-neglect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 08:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HF</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berlin is often its own worst enemy. And this time we&#8217;re not even talking about the long-delayed opening of the BER airport. Now the controversy is over creating new gaps in the historic East Side Gallery, one of the last vestiges of the Berlin Wall. There is also an online petition to block further damage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KiTa Kids</title>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2013/02/25/kita-kids/</link>
		<comments>http://german-way.com/blog/2013/02/25/kita-kids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 08:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe D</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://german-way.com/blog/?p=2324</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We toy sometimes with the idea of returning to the UK (by that we really mean London). For our careers and old friends and family, it can seem very tempting. Very tempting indeed, until we start talking about childcare. Berlin&#8217;s plentiful offering of affordable places for children to spend their time is almost unbeatable and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Germans, the notoriously direct</title>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2013/02/18/germans-the-notoriously-direct/</link>
		<comments>http://german-way.com/blog/2013/02/18/germans-the-notoriously-direct/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JessicaL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I pissed off a German today. Such an occurrence is not uncommon. Whether it&#8217;s my barking dog, my driving skills, or how I maintain my yard, it seems that on a regular basis I am being told that I&#8217;m doing something wrong. In a blog post from years ago (&#8220;There&#8217;s a dog in the pub!”), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expat Life and Loneliness</title>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2013/02/12/expat-life-and-loneliness/</link>
		<comments>http://german-way.com/blog/2013/02/12/expat-life-and-loneliness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most poignant feelings I have experienced as an expat is loneliness. It was an emotion that I knew very little of before I moved abroad. In some sense, I was probably naive in my adventurousness; I wanted to experience things that were new and different, I wanted to absorb another culture. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>German Workers&#8217; Councils Demystified</title>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2013/02/04/german-workers-councils-demystified/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 10:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jjpark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m taking on a lofty goal by trying to spell out what German Workers&#8217; Councils or Betriebsraete are in 500 words or less, a concept that is often abstract to those of us from countries without them. The Betriebsrat is a body of employees elected to represent their fellow employees of a for-profit business. These [...]]]></description>
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