New Year’s Glamping on the Eastern Comfort Hostel Boat, Berlin Germany December 31, 2016 0 6397Boats are cool and hostels are cool, so a hostel boat must be the coolest, right? After a memorable three-night stay...
Christmas Dinner: Deutsche Din-din vs Yankee Yum-yums Expat Life in Germany December 25, 2016 4 5713A dilemma of monumental proportions hit us a few days before Christmas. What the heck were we going to do...
Highlights of the 2016 Goettingen Christmas Market Germany December 15, 2016 0 5413Somehow the holiday season snuck up on us this year. It’s probably partly because Thanksgiving – our festive American predecessor...
Halloween Burg Frankenstein, A Truly *Monster*ous German Festival Germany October 23, 2016 0 7041Everyone’s heard of Frankenstein, right? Even those who haven’t read Mary Shelley’s book are familiar with the basic storyline of...
Ludwigsburg, Home of the World’s Largest Pumpkin Festival Germany October 16, 2016 4 8517In the US, our infatuation with pumpkins at Halloween borders on the religious. Long gone are the days when carving...
Celebrating Cinco de Mayo in Germany Expat Life in Germany May 5, 2016 2 6431Almost every year, Travis and I celebrate Cinco de Mayo on May 5th. Neither of us is of Mexican descent,...
Drawing Pysanky for Ukrainian Easter Expat Life in Germany May 1, 2016 2 8387As Americans, we’ve always celebrated our Easter holiday toward the end of March or some time before April 24th. This...
