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As an American, one of the harder things to wrap my head around is the fact that most apartments in Germany (or shall I say, my part of Germany) do not come with kitchens – so when I was apartment hunting a year ago, I quickly learned that “EBK” next to an apartment meant […] Honestly I have never lived in such a beautiful place with such magnificent surroundings—and my favorite room is through the door with this piece of art. Chica gave the drawing to me, a gift after I admired it endlessly in her WG[1]—it was drawn by Conrad Locke the younger brother of one of her past […] I haven’t heard any additional reports about the car accident outside my window—although it blocked the intersection and slowed traffic for about an hour, it didn’t make the one newspaper that was checked. At the end of my accident report I made reference to an unfortunate irony in the background of the picture. I would […] Just before 2 I was working on email when I heard a loud crunch and crash outside my apartment. Immediately I knew that an accident had occurred in the intersection outside my house. From above it looked like on car (the blue one) was damage really badly but the other car (dark red), damaged side […] photo by OK Copito So the fear expressed in my previous post, came to reality–actually it came to reality many times, but at least one time there was a blogger who heard the event and photographed the aftermath! OK Copito is a Spanish-language blog based here in Weimar–and as the author was hard […] The fact is that it’s been both a cold and a snowy winter here in Weimar and after a lot of snow fell earlier this season—really last year—it’s stuck around. There was a period of time when I wouldn’t leave my house without wearing my aforementioned thick socks and my heavy boots because not only […] Last night the first snow of the year fell. It made the Christmas Market rather pretty!
Goethe, Schiller, the Christmas Market, and Snow. Carol Singers along Schillerstraße Weimar's Christmas tree in Marketplatz […] So Thursday morning, about 8:45, I was on my way to Café Laden, stopping first at my bank to get money out, when I passed a school here in Weimar. I had my ear-buds in and was listening to the CBC World News at 6 (9pm Eastern Time edition) podcast. After crossing Sophiensiftsplatz, from the […] It shouldn’t surprise me, but there was another castle near Weimar that I didn’t know about—close enough that it is on the city bus route, the number 6, north of the city: Schloß Ettersburg. I made plans to head out there this weekend to take photos in the sunlight, but Friday afternoon, since I was […] I have to confess that I cannot remember a more spectacular fall in Weimar. The trees are the most colorful I can remember—deep, rich, honest colors.
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