by Chloe D | Apr 30, 2018 | Daily life, History and culture
My first experience of May 1st (Erste Mai) celebrations was as a student in Berlin in 2002 drinking beer in a park Kreuzberg. I don’t much like beer – not then and not now – but that was what everyone else was drinking and it felt like the right thing to...
by AlieC | Apr 16, 2018 | Daily life, History and culture, Tips, advice, suggestions, Uncategorized
I get a lot of emails from potential expats asking where they should live in Germany. Is the city the place to be? or would a village be better? If I have experience in the place that they are asking for I feel able to give them a decent idea of what to expect but...
by Chloe D | Jan 29, 2018 | Daily life, History and culture
The timing of most German school holidays match my British expectations. Two weeks at Christmas, two weeks at Easter, six weeks in the summer, plus the odd week somewhere in the middle of these blocks. This is not so different from home and behind each is a clear...
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 AlieC | Dec 25, 2017 | Daily life, Expat issues, German vocabulary, Red tape and bureaucracy, Tips, advice, suggestions
Moving from a culture slightly obsessed with getting on the property ladder as soon as is humanly possible, to one where renting is king has been an interesting adjustment. A lot of foreigners feel this way when they first move to Germany, but it really is A different...
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