It turns out that I’m in mighty fine company—GoOverseas.com has decided that I am one of Germany’s top ten blogs, presumably all written by expats.
Of the remaining 9 in the top ten, I already know six: the AmiExpat, Planet Germany, This non-American Life, No Apathy Allowed, Snooker in Berlin, and 50% of my DNA. I couldn’t be more honored to be amongst these fine bloggers—all of whom are women, if I’m not mistaken.
I decided to take a peak at the remaining three sites, blogs I’d not heard of, and found the Grounded Traveler, The Hamburglar Chronicles, and iHeartBerlin. By my gender count that makes two men (Grounded Traveler and me), seven women (I’m pretty sure the Hamburglar Chronicles is written by a woman), and one group blog (iHeartBerlin). In another esoteric count, it makes for four Berlin blogs with the rest relatively spread out across Germany.
This is pretty cool.
It’s not the first time I’ve ever been emailed with an announcement like this, but it’s the first time in a long time that it didn’t immediately seem like some kind of crappy link-exchange to a pure advertising website.
It’s cool enough that I’m actually going to go look at the listings for other countries—what a great way to spend a Friday night at home, alone.
Only 19 more days of being flat out broke.
Oh yeah: so today’s title includes a British idiomatic expression (I don’t think it exists in America); did anybody spot my Australian term in a post earlier this week? The term might also exist in Britain, but I think it has a slightly different meaning in Britain.
Hey, well that’s pretty cool. I didn’t get an e-mail, but am happy to learn about it here!
Well done you!
And I like your use of the Brit expression here. 🙂
Good job!
Their list needs to be longer, though. Where’s Letters Home to You? German Joys? Deutschland ueber Elvis? Major omissions, I think!
Hey, I got that email as well (Grounded Traveler here). I agree with you that it seems a cut above a random marketing stunt. I only knew one other of the ten(Non-American Life), but I will have to look through the rest.
And nope, “chuffed” is definitely British, not American at all.
Well, I really like CN’s comment, but then again there’s a certain bias… 🙂
As for chuffed, I always have to think twice about that. It sounds like a word meaning its opposite, doesn’t it?
Mandi – I’m thrilled to be the barer of happy news 🙂 Congratulations.
Heather in Europe – Thanks! I keep trying to incorporate British expressions into my life.
CN Heidelberg – Fer schizzle
Andrew – the longer I’ve been away from America the less certain I am about what does and doesn’t exist in the USA. Even when I lived in the States I used a lot of British expressions–I watched way too many BBC shows like “Are You Being Served” and “Black Adder”.
ian in hamburg – Well, I’ll excuse your bias just this one time. And I know what you mean about “chuffed” — if I hadn’t first heard the word in context I would have guessed that it had a negative meaning–but the context was clearly positive.
Congratulations! I was thrilled too… but like some of the others, I’d love to see them expand the list. Maybe over time they will (especially if they read this!) I agree with the ones suggested above. I also like ClickClackGorilla…
Germany seems to have a lot of really good expat blogs–I read a lot from Germany, but I haven’t seemed to encountered too many outside of Germany–there are some notable exceptions (e.g. The Texpatriate), but they are relatively few and far between.
I hope Go! Overseas compiles great lists from other countries. I want to find more.
that’s awesome! congratulations! and tebrikler 🙂
Very nice Adam, congrats!