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Household and Personal Products

July 15, 2007

Here’s a list with some household and personal products that can be found in Germany. I had three goals in making this list: List American brands that are sold under a different name here List commonly searched for items by expats that may not be easily found And give Stiftung Warentest (a German “Consumer Reports”-type [...]

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8 Random Facts About Me

June 13, 2007

I was tagged by both Barbara and Martina, so here goes: 1. I have to post these rules before I give you the facts. 2. Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves. 3. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules. 4. At [...]

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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 [...]

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NyQuil = Medinait? The results are in!

May 24, 2007

It comes up regularly on blogs and message boards, Wick Medinait, the German version of Vicks NyQuil, just doesn’t stack up with the original. I always wrote that talk off to psychology, we’re just more comfortable with what we’re used to. Personally, the couple times I used the German version, I didn’t really noticed a [...]

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Take me out to the ball game

May 13, 2007

Yesterday, Rainer and I met up with O-tay and fam to take in our first baseball game in Germany. We headed over to the Armin-Wolf Arena at Donaustaufer Straße 260 to watch the Regensburg Legionäre take on the Gauting Indians. Despite some ominous morning storm clouds, the weather turned out to be perfect for a [...]

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Vacation, Teil 2

May 11, 2007

After part 1 of our vacation, we headed into the Czech Republic. The first thing you notice upon crossing the border, is that the Czech Republic must be where Germans go for cheap gasoline, prostitutes and Gartenzwerge (a.k.a. garden gnomes, which apparently originate from Gräfenroda in Thuringia, Germany). I expected the gas stations, brothels and [...]

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