by HF | Apr 5, 2017 | Daily life, Expat issues, History and culture
I first wrote about Tempelhof Airport when I was living in Berlin, just before the air terminal shut down in 2008. In fact, my post about Tempelhof’s closing (now deleted) was one of the very first German Way Expat Blog posts. Berliners’ “nein”...
by HF | May 28, 2012 | Daily life, Expat issues, German vocabulary, History and culture
There is a German term for “German efficiency” – several in fact: deutsche Gründlichkeit, Effizienz, Fähigkeit, Leistungsfähigkeit, Tüchtigeit. German efficiency can be found gloriously in German doors and windows, in energy use (hall lights that only turn...
by HF | Dec 12, 2022 | Berlin, Book reviews, History and culture
Mark Twain, whose passport bore the name Samuel Langhorne Clemens, crossed the Atlantic Ocean 49 times. In Europe the American writer visited many German-speaking cities, from Berlin to Vienna, and many points in-between. The future globetrotter’s first foreign...
by HF | Jun 28, 2021 | Berlin, Daily life, Expat issues, Travel and transportation
Why is Berlin such an international flight provincial backwater? For a major European capital city, Berlin has very few international nonstop flights. Long-haul flights to and from other continents are a rarity in Berlin, Germany’s largest city by far. (The...
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