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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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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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Photohunt: Wild

September 19, 2008

I’m starting something new.  Not sure I’ll do it every week, but I’m taking it out for a test run. I’m late getting to it this week (I’m squeaking in at the last minute), it usually starts on Saturdays, so maybe I’ll have it be a Saturday thing (or weekend, at least). Wild man Oliver [...]

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Open Book Meme

February 9, 2008

Swenglishexpat has tagged me for the ‘Open Book’ meme. These are the instructions: 1. Pick up the nearest book. 2. Open it at page 123. 3. Find the fifth sentence/ phrase. 4. Blog the next four sentences/ phrases together with these instructions. 5. Don’t you dare dig your shelves for that very special or intellectual book. 6. [...]

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UNICEF report on child well-being in rich countries

February 15, 2007

Yesterday, the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre released an illuminating report entitled “An Overview of Child Well-Being In Rich Countries.” Germany generally falls in the middle for all six measurements, but what is sad is that the USA and the UK are typically near the bottom of the lists, below poorer eastern European countries. The report [...]

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Leipzig

September 13, 2006

I’ve been missing out on Leipzig for four years. That is the only conclusion I could come to after my visit to this seriously underrated city. My Frommer’s guide to Germany says that if there are time constraints and a choice between Dresden and Leipzig, go to Dresden. It describes Leipzig as a mini-Berlin. I [...]

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T-minus 5 hours and counting…

August 15, 2006

…until I board my flight for New York and by 8am CET tomorrow, I should be back in Germany. I’m looking forward to getting home to Rainer and Charlie, and actually, I’m looking forward just to be going back to Germany as well. I think if we ever moved back to the USA, I’d have [...]

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