Since the Covid-19 pandemic exploded around the world in late 2019, we’ve been pretty much hunkered down in Germany on lockdown. Like the rest of the world, we’ve been waiting for a vaccine to be developed. Waiting for it to...
Imagine heading out for your daily walk, the same walk you’ve done a hundred times before. Throw on the dog’s leash, head a block down, a block left, and you’re out of town. Depending on the time of year, you’ll...
A dilemma of monumental proportions hit us a few days before Christmas. What the heck were we going to do for the holidays? Unless you count not planning as a plan, we didn’t have a plan. We didn’t even intend...
Almost every year, Travis and I celebrate Cinco de Mayo on May 5th. Neither of us is of Mexican descent, but like so many holidays we have in the States, it’s one that grew from our large immigrant population and...
One of the hardest things we’ve discovered about moving to a new country, particularly one in which we don’t speak the language, is finding new medical professionals. Since we rarely go to the doctor and haven’t had dental insurance since...
As Americans, we’ve always celebrated our Easter holiday toward the end of March or some time before April 24th. This year, the holiday arrived quite early, on March 27th. It was a long weekend, so we headed to the Czech...
Does anyone else hate shopping for clothes? It can’t just be me. So it’s not totally a surprise that German underwear shopping turned out to be quite a misadventure. To be fair, it isn’t Germany’s fault. This all started a...