Germany Doesn’t Suck

Don’t do illegal things like making sandcastles.
No sandcastles please, you’re in Italy
Mon Aug 18, 8:59 AM ET
When in Capri, don’t wander off the beach in a bikini. If you go to the sea in Eraclea, near Venice, remember that building sandcastles is forbidden. And don’t even think about mowing your lawn at the weekend […]

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at Lidl!
(Apparently the can’t sell enough to make it a week anymore)
So, rush down and laugh at buy lots of crap that Germans think we actually eat ‘American’ goodies!

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The Whiney Expat Bloggers in Germany will be invading Bremen 27 & 28 September.
Click here for details
**** UPDATED 00:24 - 12 August ****
The official planning post is the above mentioned link. The planning website I had hoped to use is shutting down for good in 10 days, so planning is back to the ‘old […]

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Despite the opening ceremony of the Olympics being on Friday, the games actually start at 11 (CEDT) today.
I’m a big Olympic junkie, so that’s what I’ll be doing in my free time for the next couple weeks. Of course, since they’re in China that means I’ll be up at strange hours and completely destroy […]

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Since gas and electricity were included in my rent in my old place, dealing with utility bills is new to me in Germany. So, I thought I’d ask the experts.
My new place is about 50m², evenly distributed on both levels. I’m paying €61/month for electricity and €50/month for gas. When I lived in the US, […]

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the answer was guessed very quickly. Jen was somehow able to figure out that that was the price of my ticket to Thailand this year. I’m going on frequent flier miles again and only have to pay airport taxes.
Frequent flier miles again? How on earth could that happen?
Thank the airline industry.
In 2006, airlines changes their […]

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Guess what I’ve spent this amount of money on.

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It’s Gauklerfest weekend!
What is the Gauklerfest?
Here’s a sample video for you.

More to follow next week.

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I don’t get it.
Obama will be in Germany today and Americans from all over the country (Germans too) are travelling to Berlin to hear him speak.
Why?
What makes him so special that people are flocking to him like that?
Yes, he’s a presidential candidate, but all the Obamamania hype is a bit much, isn’t it?
Is Obamamania […]

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and unfortunately, I’m not taking about the weather.
Last night the J Lair fell below my inside lowest temperature of comfort - 20°C. The outside temperature hasn’t reached that high since I’ve been home (and it rained most of yesterday too) – an awful thing to come back from blazing hot (and sunny) Spain to – […]

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Returning from holiday is always a bit of a disappointment, but usually it’s not too bad. Here’s how Germany welcomed me back.
Lufthansa was 40 minutes late and it took 30 minutes to get my bag, so I missed my train by less than a minute (I was running down the escalator when it was pulling […]

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sort of.
I spent Wednesday travelling from Barcelona to Zaragoza and went right to the expo afterwards for most of the rest of the day.
Other than an hour, I spent the entire day at the expo on Thursday – arriving at 9:15 and leaving after midnight – not because the expo closed, but because […]

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from the China pavilion at Expo 2008 in Zaragoza. My mobile internet device detected it in the video room.
Expo is the reason for my holiday and I’m not disappointed. Weather is perfect - sunny and in the 30’s

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That’s better.
And to top it off, there’s a pub two minutes from my hotel accommodation that has free wifi.

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