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Tips for Expats

My aStore’s open for business

January 31, 2009

Something I’ve been working on for a while now, is an aStore – two actually, one through Amazon USA and one through Amazon Germany. I’ve gathered items I think might be of interest to my readers there, where you can browse and if you wish, buy, with a small percentage of the sale going to [...]

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You’ve Got Mail

January 29, 2009

I was just watching You’ve Got Mail, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, from back in the 90′s and a couple things really struck me.  Dial up – remember that?  Okay, according to my web stats, a few of my readers use dial up, and when I lived in Rostock and Potsdam, that too was [...]

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Baking soda gets big, well, bigger

December 20, 2008

I’m busy making Christmas cookies today, but wanted to drop all you expats in Germany a quick note.  Yesterday while shopping for ingredients at Laaber’s very small Edeka supermarket, I noticed 250g bags of Natron (baking soda) for sale in the spice section.  Sure, it’s about the size of the small Arm & Hammer boxes, [...]

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Hot Travel deals from Travelzoo.de

December 19, 2008

Travelzoo.de has some really good deals if you live near Munich, Stuttgart or Nuremburg and want to travel to Dubai, Miami, San Francisco, Johannesberg, Mexico City, or Martinique.  You need to book by Monday, December 22 for travel between the 1st of Janury and 31 of March. MÜNCHEN/STUTTGART/NÜRNBERG — 19. Dezember 2008 — Air France [...]

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How to eat American restaurant food without leaving home

December 16, 2008

I blogged about this topic briefly in passing, but now I think it’s deserves it’s own post.  A while back, I got the book Top Secret Restaurant Recipes: Creating Kitchen Clones from America’s Favorite Restaurant Chains by Todd Wilbur (also available at Amazon.de) and it’s follow-up Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 2.  It’s been nine months [...]

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Every video MTV has ever aired

November 6, 2008

It’s hit me, NaBloPoMo fatigue.  I have been so obsessed with watching the news and reading news websites for the last, oh, I don’t know, several months, that now that the election is over, I just want to sleep and ignore the television and computer (I’d be outside, but it’s gray and yucky here at [...]

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How do I travel with a toddler without annoying everyone involved?

October 24, 2008

In less than a week, I’m making a transatlantic flight including a stopover with a 15 month old.  Who’s got advice for me?  Cause I’m bugging just a little about trying to keep him from being a huge annoyance to everyone on the plane.  He does have his own seat, not sure if I should [...]

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