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Last weekend, while in Sweden, my hosts took me on a driving tour of Sweden.
Honestly, I hadn’t really prepared for my trip to Sweden—no studying of attractions in southern Sweden, no reading up on Lund, and no stereotypes of Sweden.
So everything was a surprise – and it occurred to me, far too late […]
So after getting 75% of the way through assembling my new Ikea bed last night, I realized that I misplaced the metal piece that goes from the headboard to the foot.
It’s right there in step 9: Take the metal bar, pull on it to extend it to the proper length, then put it in […]
Yesterday I made my second trip to Ikea, and just like the first, I lost track of time.
I headed there with a colleague who walked me through the process of buying a bed in Germany, something which is surprisingly different from America.
The last time I bought a bed in America, I went to […]
I am in Germany, back from Beach City, Turkey, where it was boiling hot, until about four hours before I left. Doh!
Make no mistake: the wedding was fantastic. I have no complaints about the wedding. It was a beautiful affair with the mayor administering the rites quickly after the starters and before the main […]
Well, a Volkswagon Convertible Bug, that is.
Because today’s wedding is in a public-transport inaccessible spot (particularly in the evenings), I’ve rented a car for the weekend. I was supposed to get a BMW 1er class car, but because the car I was assigned was not at the car rental agency, I got a VW […]
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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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