Hamburg

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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BallinStadt opens in Hamburg

July 9, 2007

On July 5, the newly rebuilt BallinStadt, Albert Ballin’s “Emigrant City” on Veddel Island in the Elbe River in Hamburg, reopened, giving visitors the chance to relive the history of the more than 5 million Germans who emigrated from the port of Hamburg to the US between 1850 and 1934. For more details, see my [...]

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Countdown to Live Earth

July 6, 2007

Live Earth is a 24-hour, 7-continent concert series taking place on 7/7/07 that will bring together more than 100 music artists and 2 billion people to trigger a global movement to solve the climate crisis.Live Earth marks the beginning of a multi-year campaign led by the Alliance for Climate Protection, The Climate Group and other [...]

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A lot of this and that

June 6, 2007

You may or may not have noticed, but I’ve decided to change my Blogger screenname to “Christina G”, in order to avoid confusion with Christina (Mausi). I thought about using “CG” instead, as that has been a nickname of mine in the past, but I figure there are a lot more “CG”s out there than [...]

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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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More search terms

February 17, 2007

Normally I wouldn’t subject you to blog stats again so soon, but some of these search terms are too funny/strange not to share:
1. berlin deutschland
2. american expats germany
3. ausländeramt hamburg foto
4. berlin rapes american soldiers
5. verliebt in berlin tv serie in version english
6. charlie geyer
7. germany babies skeletons found in flower pots
8. american expat dresden
9. [...]

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Lange Kerls und kleine Amis

January 18, 2007

Hamish over at FiF recently posted a link to this New Yorker article discussing why on average Europeans are getting taller, while Americans haven’t had an increase of average height in 50 years.
The Netherlands, as any European can tell you, has become a land of giants. In a century’s time, the Dutch have gone from [...]

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