by Erin "ebe" Porter | Mar 23, 2020 | Berlin, Expat issues, German vocabulary, Medical matters, Tips, advice, suggestions
I have a cousin from Arkansas who recently moved to China with her family. I admire their adventurous spirit as I can’t imagine a much more drastic change for them. Moving from Seattle to Berlin as two footloose and fancy-free twenty-year-olds is one thing....
by Erin "ebe" Porter | Dec 2, 2019 | Berlin, Daily life, German vocabulary, History and culture, Tips, advice, suggestions
It is birthday party season for us in Berlin. After my little girl’s 5th birthday (5th!), we had two other kids’ parties at some of the city’s best museums. Apparently we are running with a fashionable kiddie crowd. In this season of cold weather and...
by AlieC | May 6, 2019 | History and culture, Tips, advice, suggestions
Yes that title is a direct quote, and one that came with a great deal of agreement from a room of non German people. I could hardly say I was shocked to hear what I’d thought a few years ago voiced out loud. Though most of the commenters didn’t consider Germany a...
by HF | Apr 29, 2019 | Expat issues, German language, Internet and the Web, Tips, advice, suggestions
Why Mobile Video Apps? Whether you’re living in German-speaking Europe or somewhere else in the world where it’s not that easy to watch German-language television, these apps allow you to watch TV and movies that the locals watch. Even if you’re in...
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