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Welcome to Mazda Zoom Zoom Stadium, 3rd base side, 14th section, row 30, seat L231.
I will readily admit that the reason for my Japanese vacation is completely and utterly insane.
I went to Japan to watch the Hiroshima Toyo Carp play baseball.
At some point it occurred to me that I haven’t been […]
My first morning in Hiroshima was dedicated to visiting the Peace Park and related activities.
Monument in Memory of the Korean Victims
It’s a slightly odd, and convoluted, reason that I decided to visit Japan and, specifically, Hiroshima, this summer. While I actually had a number of choices as to which city I could […]
If I cared about football, then I’d be upset…
In the last eight years, since I last attended a professional football match here in Germany, my love for the beautiful game has not really increased.
I’ve come to dread the World Cup and the Euro football tournament. It’s the only time that the large masses […]
Honestly, I only subscribe to three magazines: The Economist, Rolling Stone, and Ex-Berliner.
The Economist is expensive and I get it delivered to my home in Berlin – it is the only appointment reading that I have every week. I read it from cover-to-cover in a specific order (cartoon, letters to the editor, then I […]
At some point in the future I’m going to pop over to Japan for a few days vacation.
This will be the furthest east I have travelled (or west, but I haven’t ever crossed the Pacific, and Japan is certainly east of Germany) and there are a large number of things about the trip that […]
What an awesome logo: the Berlin Bear, throwing a boot!
Saturday took me on an adventure to northern Berlin – Tegel – in order to attend the closing day of the Boot Throwing World Championships 2013 and World Cup 4.
Lest you think that I am making this kind of bullshit up, I’m not. […]
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TQE : That Queer Expatriate I'm an American living in Berlin, Germany -- which makes me an expatriate, not an ex-patriot. Before landing in Germany, I've lived in Denver, Colorado; Laramie, Wyoming; Bloomington, Indiana; and Weimar, Germany. If you want to write to me, feel free! The username is elmadaeu on the gmail.com service.
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