by Erin "ebe" Porter | Sep 18, 2023 | German vocabulary, History and culture, Tips, advice, suggestions, Travel and transportation
If you missed it, this weekend kicked off Okoberfest in Munich. With the tapping of the keg and the magical words of “O’zapft is” (“It’s tapped”), the biggest beer festival in the world has begun. Last year was the first year after the pandemic that...
by Erin "ebe" Porter | Aug 10, 2020 | Berlin, Daily life, German vocabulary, History and culture, Tips, advice, suggestions
If you missed the story about the wild boar who took a man’s bag at the lake, only to have the nude bather pursue, you missed out. (Just kidding: a link to the original post or just google “Berlin”, “nude”, “boar” and it will...
by Erin "ebe" Porter | Jul 13, 2020 | Berlin, Daily life, History and culture
We are fresh off our third weekend straight spent relaxing and socializing in the park. We have steadily shifted to life outside here in Germany as the number of Covid infections hovers and mostly holds steady and the weather warms. After months indoors, Germans are...
by Erin "ebe" Porter | Dec 2, 2019 | Berlin, Daily life, German vocabulary, History and culture, Tips, advice, suggestions
It is birthday party season for us in Berlin. After my little girl’s 5th birthday (5th!), we had two other kids’ parties at some of the city’s best museums. Apparently we are running with a fashionable kiddie crowd. In this season of cold weather and...
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