by Ruth | Jul 17, 2012 | Daily life, Expat issues
This afternoon a crowd of my in-laws converged on our house for the traditional German Sunday afternoon Kaffee & Kuchen. This doesn’t happen very often, maybe once a year, as they all live over an hour away. Anyone with in-laws will sympathize with the latent...
by Ruth | Jan 9, 2012 | Daily life, Expat issues, Tips, advice, suggestions
As I write this, I am dazed with jet lag. In this haze, the thoughts I had on the airplane for this blog post are distant and somewhat difficult to grasp. The moment we arrived back in Europe, it was as if the trip had never happened. Three weeks of the Great...
by Sarah Fürstenberger | Dec 31, 2010 | Expat issues, History and culture
This past year, our international family became even more international when my husband’s sister married a man from Colombia. When we moved to Ireland in September, the family decided that we would all celebrate Christmas together in Galway this year. The flight...
by HF | Dec 1, 2010 | Expat issues, Red tape and bureaucracy, Tips, advice, suggestions
Or how not to get your Aufenthaltstitel The big day started at 6:30 a.m. when I suddenly woke up and realized that it was was the day and date of my appointment at the Berlin Ausländerbehörde (Foreigners Authority, now known as the Landesamt für Einwanderung, the...
by Sarah Fürstenberger | Jul 26, 2010 | Expat issues, German vocabulary, History and culture
Like Jane and her husband, we are also on our way out of Germany. Unlike them though, we are becoming expats once again, this time in Ireland. There are so many things I love about living in Germany. This move happened quickly, and it was a choice for us, but it is...
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