by Erin "ebe" Porter | Dec 9, 2015 | German vocabulary, History and culture, Tips, advice, suggestions
My parents are coming to Germany for Christmas for the very first time. Sure, they’ve been to Germany before. They’ve climbed the 111 steps up to our beloved Dachgeschoss in Berlin; they’ve driven all over the Romantic Road, they’ve fallen in...
by Erin "ebe" Porter | Sep 30, 2015 | Daily life, Expat issues, German vocabulary, Tips, advice, suggestions
Do Germans have a saying for “When it rains, it pours”? After months (and months) of house hunting we finally got a place, only to be offered another Wohnung right after that. Now we just need to find a Nachmieter (a renter to take over our current lease),...
by HF | Sep 23, 2015 | Book reviews, History and culture
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf Let’s start at the beginning. There were several special reasons I wanted to read Wulf’s Humboldt biography. I myself have many connections with the Humboldt name, but I did not...
by Chloe D | Sep 2, 2015 | History and culture
The situation is all over the news, it’s what people are earnestly discussing over dinner, it has moved the country on a national scale – I’m talking about Europe’s migrant crisis and the role Germany is playing. This is not the time nor place...
by Chloe D | Jul 29, 2015 | History and culture, Tips, advice, suggestions
A couple of weeks ago we had night without children (they were having a sleepover in the KiTa – worthy of another blog post). But what a rarity! Seeing a film was the obvious choice – prior to parenthood we went to the movies all the time. But it had...
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