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Mountains, Smountains… I came to see the Rockies!

Time to celebrate!

Thursday was a fine first day in the New World: I woke up at 3:30, local time, ready to roll. My main plan for the day: watching the Milwaukee Brewers lose to the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field.

My wish came true.

Although, in the process, I froze myself: My father, […]

Munich Impressions

Locals ride the waves in Munich.

Difficult to find.

Dirndles for women

Gärtnerplatz

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CoolPix!

I’ve liked my current camera (it’s a Nikon Coolpix s52) since I bought it under duress last November in DC—but I never bothered to read the instruction manual and so it wasn’t until a couple weeks ago that I discovered the preset functions for different types of photography.

Yesterday I was in Jena’s Paradies Park […]

Silly German Politics

I’m in Regensburg for the Regensbloggers‘ Apartment Warming Party.

While my hosts are busy setting up, I am exploring Regensburg—I’ve never been here before and I have to confess, it’s a charming city. I can immediately see why its popular with tourists from both abroad and Germany.

The Regensburg Dom is a beautiful structure that […]

2009 Space Kid Head Cup

Trying to stop in time!

See the complete set.

What you (we) missed…

This has been an incredibly great trip—productive on the one hand, fun on the other.

Unfortunately it has to come to an end and I am heading back to Weimar today—getting home Monday morning. Home is, of course, a wonderful place and I although I slept in excellent beds at two different Hiltons, there is […]

Happy May-censi-en Day

Today was a terrific day!

Normally three days are compressed into two: Ascension Day plus Men’s Day and May Day. Due to the rather early Easter and May 1st falling on a Thursday, these three days were compressed even more tightly into one day.

In Weimar May Day is the day for the Space Kid […]

ReMote TV

It wasn’t that long ago that I wrote about the new satellite television decoders in my apartment.

At the time I had just installed the devices and I shared my horror at the discovery that a large number of channels carried disgusting aberrant sex: naked boys with naked girls doing the most unspeakable and unnatural […]

Happy… Fourth

I’ve seen this mentioned on quite a few expatriate blogs and on non-expatriate blogs, so the fact that I am adding to the choir probably doesn’t add much, but regardless, Happy Fourth of July.

American Independence Day.

I’ve spent my day in Evansville, Indiana, a quaint city on the Ohio River.

This morning I took […]

So… Busted!

Yesterday’s tour of Portugal was not without its amusing aspects. I was taken around by J and M, who have a 2 year old daughter, R. The most amazing aspect of their daughter is that they are raising her to speak Portuguese (her mother’s native tongue), Swiss-German (her father’s native tongue), and English. Apparently the […]