by Chloe D | Jun 25, 2012 | Daily life, German language, German vocabulary, History and culture
It is a perfect Northern European midsummer’s evening, the sky a delicate swirl of gentle pastels and the soft air just cool enough for a cardigan: we have our window open. Then, quite suddenly, outside a tremendous roar erupts. Men, women and children let out...
by Ruth | Jun 12, 2012 | Daily life, Expat issues, German vocabulary, History and culture, Tips, advice, suggestions
I am going to attempt to explain the German education system in the simplest terms possible. For those with further education who can handle the exceptions, I have listed them at the end. When a child is born in Germany, it has the right to a place in a daycare from...
by HF | Apr 23, 2012 | Daily life, German vocabulary, History and culture, Tips, advice, suggestions
It never really dawned on me that the Germans don’t use apartment numbers – until I lived in a German apartment house. The only way the postal carrier (Postbote/Postbotin) can deliver mail to the correct apartment in even a large apartment complex is by the...
by Erik Flippo | Apr 18, 2012
Inheriting a maternal love for literature and a paternal love for business, Chloe is the youngest child of two academics. Growing up in Hull, Yorkshire, with brief interludes in Vanuatu, in the South Pacific, and Grimsby, Lincolnshire, hers was a laissez-faire...
by HF | Mar 19, 2012 | Daily life, Expat issues, Tips, advice, suggestions
I’m inviting readers (Americans especially) to help me compile a list. It’s a list that grows shorter by the year, but is still fairly lengthy: Foods that are hard to find in Germany. It really wasn’t that long ago that an American living in Germany...
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