by Erin "ebe" Porter | Sep 18, 2023 | German vocabulary, History and culture, Tips, advice, suggestions, Travel and transportation
If you missed it, this weekend kicked off Okoberfest in Munich. With the tapping of the keg and the magical words of “O’zapft is” (“It’s tapped”), the biggest beer festival in the world has begun. Last year was the first year after the pandemic that...
by Erin "ebe" Porter | Jul 17, 2023 | Berlin, Daily life, German vocabulary, History and culture, Tips, advice, suggestions
I left a sweltering Berlin for an almost as hot Washington State. People always think of Seattle as rainy, but on the day my family arrived back in our home state it was over 80 degrees F (27 degree C) and clear skies meant the “mountain was out” as the...
by HF | Jul 3, 2023 | Berlin, Tips, advice, suggestions, Travel and transportation
My last post was about revisiting Berlin after a five-year pandemic-related pause. In that post I promised to later write about Munich, our next destination, and I will. But today my subject is Deutsche Bahn (DB) and the “adventure” of rail travel in...
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