by Sarah | Jan 1, 2018 | History and culture, Tips, advice, suggestions
Now the new year is here I will start planning adventures for the next twelve months. This time last year my partner and I began organising a springtime two week road trip around southern Germany. It wasn’t what we originally had in mind for 2017, but we put a...
by HF | Nov 9, 2017 | Daily life, History and culture, Tips, advice, suggestions
November: The Mourning Month and Its Fateful Dates The first two days of November are significant in the Christian religious calendar. November 1 is All Saints Day (Allerheiligen). November 2 is All Souls Day (Allerseelen). In Germany, most of Europe, and all over the...
by AlieC | Aug 23, 2017 | Daily life, German language, German vocabulary, History and culture, Tips, advice, suggestions
The summer is almost over here in Germany. The weather is still warm but lacks the intensity of mid summer, sun kissed families are returning from their adventures abroad, small businesses are reopening and pumpkins are already ripening in the fields. Autumn is most...
by Chloe D | Jul 26, 2017 | Daily life, History and culture
As every summer, we are holidaying in the north of England, where compared to Berlin the days are cooler and the evenings longer. I should be used to it because this is where I grew up and it has the unpredictable (or all too predictable) summer climate of my...
by AlieC | Jul 19, 2017 | History and culture, Tips, advice, suggestions
Germany has many compound words. Plenty translate easily and quite literally like Der Handschuh (hand shoes or rather gloves) and bittersuß (bittersweet). So when I came across a sign that featured the word Weinwanderung (wine ramble/walk), two of my all time...
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