by AlieC | Dec 3, 2018 | Daily life, German vocabulary, Tips, advice, suggestions
Whilst Christmas itself can get you through December with magic twinkling lights, cookies and copious quantities of warming booze the rest of winter can seem a bit bland, cold and uncomfortable in comparison. Short cold days that seep into long freezing nights,...
by Laura V | Jan 15, 2018 | Daily life, History and culture, Tips, advice, suggestions
After you dutifully participated at -and maybe even organized, the Christmas celebrations at the office, attended several advent parties, strolled through many Christmas Markets, ate shameful amounts of Plätzchen (X-mas cookies), drank enough hot chocolate to fill...
by Chloe D | Jan 5, 2017 | History and culture, Tips, advice, suggestions
I’ve written about the German obsession at New Year’s with pyrotechnics for this blog before. This year Berlin was the same as always – air thick with smoke, sky alight with brilliant explosions of colour, and our ears filled with the constant cracking of...
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