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The Grass is Always Greener…

January 9, 2012

You can imagine my surprise when I spotted this in the dairy section of my nearby Real supermarket: Yep, that’s grated cheddar! Not only that, over Christmas, in the baking aisle, there was real, honest to goodness, vanilla extract (I’m still going to make my own though). Dr Pepper is now available at the same [...]

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Universal Health Care Around the World: Reader Experiences

August 21, 2009

This is the fourth post in my series on universal health care.  The first was a description of the health care system in Germany, the second was my experiences in the German and the US systems, the third was reader submitted experienced with universal health care in Germany, and the fifth takes on some of [...]

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Weekly Winners – 25 July-8 Aug 2009 – France, Germany, Birthdays and Trachten

August 9, 2009

July 25 – August 8, 2009 It’s been a while, I know!  We’ve been busy with family from the States, festivals, parties and travelling.  I’ve taken a lot of photos over the last two weeks, so here’s what we’ve been up to… Laaber Bürgerfest Our village had it’s yearly “Citizen’s festival,” and I made my [...]

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Weekly Winners – 28 December 2008

December 28, 2008

December 21 – December 27, 2008 It’s the last Weekly Winners of 2008! We had a busy holiday week with a lot of traveling. On the way to see Oma and Opa, we stopped at Bad Dürkheim And just happened to drive through the town of Frankenstein Where we saw the ruins of Frankenstein’s castle [...]

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How We Became the United States of France?

September 22, 2008

I guess the author of the Time magazine article How We Became the United States of France is trying to be humorous, but the more I read of the article, the more I was insulted.  What is so wrong with France, anyway?  I don’t get this (yes, I know it’s supposed to be a joke, [...]

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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 [...]

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Strikes, strikes, and more strikes

March 6, 2008

Germany is getting just as bad as France nowadays.  Here’s a message I received from the US Consulate (you too can get these messages by registering with the State Department).  In addition to what’s listed in the message, Deutsche Bahn (the train service) are planning to strike indefinitely starting on Monday.  So basically, if there [...]

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