by Chloe D | Jul 30, 2012 | Daily life, Expat issues, Tips, advice, suggestions, Work and employment matters
“It’s like being interviewed for a shared flat,” my German friend, the freelance TV producer, says to me one Wednesday morning over one of those pungent Berlin coffees. Having left our laptops gently purring on our dining table desks, we are now...
by JessicaL | Jul 23, 2012 | Daily life, Expat issues
It seems that every year, as I am doing the last minute prepping for our upcoming move back to Europe (Hamburg, Germany this time around), I get that same sad, longing feeling. Over the years of my on-again-off-again expat life, I have grown ever more fond of my home...
by HF | Mar 19, 2012 | Daily life, Expat issues, Tips, advice, suggestions
I’m inviting readers (Americans especially) to help me compile a list. It’s a list that grows shorter by the year, but is still fairly lengthy: Foods that are hard to find in Germany. It really wasn’t that long ago that an American living in Germany...
by Erik Flippo | Aug 19, 2011
Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Jessica L. Scott-Reid is a freelance food, culture, and lifestyle writer, a graduate student, hockey-wife, and doggy-mom. Jessica lived in German-speaking Europe from 2007 to 2013, first along the Rhine river just outside of...
by HF | Apr 12, 2010 | Daily life, History and culture, Red tape and bureaucracy
Today’s blog is inspired by two recent events in Germany: (1) The vehement opposition to Google Street View from some Germans and Austrians, and (2) the March 2, 2010 German Federal Constitutional Court decision that overturned a law that allowed government...
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