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My favorite 5 Restaurants in Freiburg
This month in the Blogger Stammtisch, the topic is ‘Favorite 5 Restaurants in your Town’. So obviously that means for me, my favorite places to eat in Freiburg. I have written about places to eat in...
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Bagels On My Mind
This week’s Postcard is a Simit deliverer near the Spice Market in Istanbul. He carries this plate of artfully stacked breads called Simit through the crowd. As my wife often reminds me, I am a goof. I...
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Making Pancakes From A Bottle
I really love pancakes. Everyone has a food that reminds them of good times and pancakes are that for me. (Oh and pecan pie, but this post is about pancakes, not pie.) In the US, there are places like...
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I love Belgian beer
German is stereotypically the land of beer. The Reinheitsgebot, the beer purity laws from the medieval ages, and Oktoberfest are both German and just spread this idea that beer is king in German. And...
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Choosing a Language School
Language schools are one of the best ways to get a taste of a new culture and country. Learning a language brings so much more than just the words. They can often help with low cost accommodation and...
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Not So Into Museums
This month’s topic in the Blogger Stammtisch is museums. But you see, I am not much of a museum person. When you read about what is going on in a city, often you end up with a list of museums. I...
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German Beer Vocabulary
Germany is the land of beer. It is perhaps best well known for its beer and for festivals celebrating said beer. It doesn’t help you enjoy it though if you can’t order or don’t know what you are...
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My First E-Book : a Technical E-Book for Non-Geeks
I know the blog has been kind of quiet lately. One of the biggest reasons is that I have been trying to finish an e-book. I have been working on this project for nearly 2 years in one form or another,...
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Germany gets dark in the winter
Freiburg is on the 48th parallel. The long straight border between the US and Canada is on the 49th. So we currently live a fair ways further north than I ever thought I would, and we are still in the...
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Frankfurt Christmas Market : A Non-Instagram Photo Tour
December is Christmas Market Season in Germany. Every town no matter the size has one (or several). We took a weekend to go up and check out Frankfurt’s. Ali had flown in and out of Frankfurt enough...
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Reflections on 2012
I remember reading a quote once that stated that “repeating the same actions without changing anything and expecting different results is insanity.” This must mean that those that work with computers...
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What can’t you get in Germany, than you can in the US?
What exists in America that you can’t get in Germany? This question of what exists in the States, but not in Germany is a popular search that lands on the blog. I have written about it in various...
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Searching for my Missing Creativity and Dealing with Exhaustion
I’ve been working on a post about exhaustion for a while now. The ironic problem is that I have been so exhausted and burned out lately, I just can’t finish it. So I’ll talk about it like this and...
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Freiburg: a perfect day trip city
Our adopted hometown is Freiburg, Germany. And while it is small, Freiburg is in the middle a lot of great places and works quite well as a base. The city itself has plenty to see and is a nice place...
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Sightseeing around Bavaria
When you think about Germany and you are an American, you are probably just thinking about Bavaria. So many things in the American mind about Germany have come from Bavaria. Oompah Bands, Lederhosen...
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Weekends are for laundry
One of my goals of moving to Germany over 5 years ago was to be able to travel. To be in the center of Europe and be able to make daytrips in Germany and spend weekends in Italy and beyond. Yeah, well....
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Daytrips and Slow Travel
The ideas of slow travel and quality travel are coming up more and more. The core idea being to stay in a place longer and sink deeper into it as opposed to go skipping by so fast as to only see the...
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Kündigungsfrist : explanation and thoughts
Kündigungsfrist – This German monstrosity of a word essentially just means “notice period before quitting/cancelation.” Where do you find it? It comes up in work contracts. In that sense it implies...
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Announcing Beyond Vacation 2013
Ali and I have been hinting at big plans for a while. We’ve been waiting for a few pieces to fall into place before announcing the plans. Now is that time. Based on an article on Married With Luggage,...
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The Schmarrn Incident
I have lived and traveled in German speaking Europe for a long time. I have even been in Austria several times, but I have only recently experienced Schmarrn. I tried making it this morning and...
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