by HF | Jun 28, 2021 | Berlin, Daily life, Expat issues, Travel and transportation
Why is Berlin such an international flight provincial backwater? For a major European capital city, Berlin has very few international nonstop flights. Long-haul flights to and from other continents are a rarity in Berlin, Germany’s largest city by far. (The...
by HF | Mar 8, 2021 | German language, History and culture
In some places your name day is more important than your birthday. If you don’t know when your name day is, you live in a part of the world where the celebration of your given name (first name, Vorname, Christian name) is uncommon or even unheard of. That would...
by HF | Feb 8, 2021 | Berlin, German language, German vocabulary, History and culture
North American Communities with German Namesakes This was originally intended as a normal brief blog post about German (and Austria/Swiss) place names in the USA. However, as I was researching and writing this post, I began to realize that the topic was far more...
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