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The Answers, part II: living in Germany, living in general, and kids

April 4, 2008

What is the best part about living in Germany? What is the hardest?
The best part about living in Germany is probably the socialized medicine. You hear stories about illnesses making people bankrupt in the US, and I don’t have to worry at all about that here. If, God forbid, Oliver was autistic, or Rainer had [...]

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Regensburg Baseball Eurocup Meetup: June 21-22

March 26, 2008

Mark your calender! A weekend meetup will be taking place in the lovely, UNESCO World Heritage site of Regensburg on the weekend of June 21-22 to coincide with the Baseball Eurocup. It will probably go something like: city tour and dinner/drinks on Saturday, Brunch and European Baseball Championship on Sunday. I’m sure events can be planned for [...]

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Regenburg Expat Meetup – March 30

March 1, 2008

The next Regensburg Expat Dinner will be on Sunday, March 30th, starting at 5pm at Fürstliches Brauhausin Regensburg (Waffnergasse 6 – 8, here’s a map). This is in the Altstadt, at the schloss. I am going to propose that we wait till 6pm to order dinner, and just have drinks for the first hour. This [...]

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Calling all Regensburg expats and friends!

October 2, 2007

In Berlin, there was a Stammtisch organized by RFM once a month. Even though I think I only was able to attend two or three before I moved down here, I thought it was a brilliant idea and they were great fun. So this got me thinking, there are plenty of us expats here in [...]

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Grillspass and Mango Salad

June 11, 2007

Last night we had Cliff and Sarah over for a little Thai/American Grillparty. They brought Mac’n’Cheese and Thai coleslaw (you should post the recipe, Cliff), while we made Green Mango Salad, Bangkok-style BBQ chicken, Thai steak, Thai iced coffee, corn on the cob and a nice citrus buttercream with lime curd filling cake. With me [...]

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American food and cooking substitutes

May 31, 2007

Finding product replacements for your favorite foods and snacks is always tough for new expats (and occasionally some of us more experienced expats as well)! Here’s my attempt to help out and I have to admit, I learned quite a bit in my research for this post.
Baking

Baking Powder – Most North American baking powder is [...]

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Vacation, Teil 1

May 5, 2007

Yes, I am finally getting around to blogging our recent “Last Vacation As Two”. You’ll have to forgive my tardiness (well, I guess you don’t HAVE to, you can certainly hold it against me if you wish), I’ve been pretty exhausted the last week and I’ve also been working hard on several items for my [...]

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