by HF | Sep 14, 2016 | Daily life, Expat issues, Tips, advice, suggestions
As I find myself rediscovering many aspects of daily life in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, I can’t help but think of Mark Twain, who wrote so masterfully about his travels in Germany and Europe in A Tramp Abroad (1880, translated into German as “Bummel...
by AlieC | Aug 3, 2016 | History and culture, Tips, advice, suggestions
Summer in Germany is a humid and sweaty affair, especially down here in the landlocked south. For a pale, sea breeze loving Brit my first summer was indeed a baptism of fire. When I heard of a beautiful place where you could swim and laze away a day it seemed to be...
by Erin "ebe" Porter | Apr 20, 2016 | Expat issues, German vocabulary, History and culture, Tips, advice, suggestions
When my baby started Krippe last fall I thought I was ready. I was distracted with moving apartments, loads of typical German paperwork and internet disasters. We had steeled ourselves for our baby spending time away from us for the first time. We thought we had this....
by Jay | Apr 6, 2016 | Daily life, Expat issues, Tips, advice, suggestions
Even if you’ve been living in German for 30 years and haven’t spoken a word of English in 20, it still feels good to catch a non-dubbed version of a recent release in the theater. Last summer, during a 3 week holiday to Berlin, I spent about half of my...
by Jane | Mar 16, 2016 | Expat issues, German language, History and culture, Tips, advice, suggestions, Work and employment matters
I’ve written before about how I have been planning on becoming a mentor to a newly arrived refugee in my local community. The journey has been slow at getting started in terms of actually connecting with my mentee despite numerous thwarted efforts. Meanwhile I...
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