by Erin "ebe" Porter | Mar 24, 2016 | Daily life, Expat issues, Tips, advice, suggestions
Prelude: I was all prepared to write something light – yet close to my heart – about TV. That was the topic of my first German Way post and pertinent as recent changes with Netflix have made watching American TV in Germany much more difficult (details to...
by HF | May 31, 2021 | Daily life, Red tape and bureaucracy, Tips, advice, suggestions
Germany’s Version of British TV Licensing North Americans newly arrived in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland are surprised to learn that they have to pay an annual fee to receive public broadcasting radio and television plus internet video streaming. Even if you...
by HF | Jul 27, 2020 | History and culture, Travel and transportation
“Bicycle” in German: das Fahrrad and das Velo The bicycle is one of those everyday things we take for granted. Almost everyone as a child learns to ride a bike (trainer wheels with mom or dad as coach). I grew up riding various Schwinn bicycles (more on...
by Erin "ebe" Porter | Jan 26, 2020 | Daily life, German vocabulary, History and culture, Tips, advice, suggestions
In the lead-up to Christmas, full of company parties and gift shopping and Christmas Markets, we had a new German word to look-up: Schrottwichteln. It had my German-fluent husband stumped with Schrott roughly translating to “garbage” and Wichteln to...
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