10 Things About Germany

I’ve been living in Germany for close to 6 months now (if not already), and in that time, I’ve found my way with some things, gotten completely lost with others and sometimes I still can’t believe that any tourist manages to find their way around. So, since most of the people reading the blog are English speakers (otherwise they’re not really ‘reading’ it now, are they?) and therefore more likely to visit Germany for a holiday rather than... Read More

A Weekend in Munich!

Good Morning Munich! We’d been looking to get out of Frankfurt for a couple of weeks, but the price of the Bahn coupled with our seriously empty bank balances meant all bets were off. Thankfully, a friend of mine agreed to run us down to Munich, as he was heading that direction anyway, so we were more than glad of the lift. So, what do we think of Munich?   Well first up, we didn’t get there for a long time – it appears that the day we... Read More

Why Not Live in Lovely Mainz?

Welcome to lovely Mainz! Lately we’ve been discussing where to go live next – at the moment, Anna walks to work in about 20 minutes in the morning, which is perfect, but I have a commute of over an hour to get to where I need to go, which isn’t so perfect. Assuming then that the ideal solution would be to go somewhere where we both had to commute for a less, but more equal distance, Mainz seemed like the perfect solution. Although where we live... Read More

Hello, Hannover – Part II

Here we have the town hall from the top of the stairs... So we continued onwards, eventually winding up standing right outside Hannover’s extremely picturesque town hall, an old building that seems to have been one of the few to escape the destruction of the Second World War. With the weather – which seemed to be always bordering on freezing – apparently worsening, we decided to head inside and check out what was going on.   This I have... Read More

The Can & Cannot’s of Train Travel – Part III

But it's not all bad... The last couple of days in my previous articles, I’ve been explaining why train travel can sometimes be the most awful curse that can be inflicted on anyone for a couple of hours. Today though, to wrap up this collection of posts, I explain what makes train travel more respectable than a lot of other ways of getting around and why I continue to take the train.   Just take this off, then that, take that out of your... Read More

If I Passed This Off as Chinese New Year…

Would that work better? The problem I always have with writing ‘lengthy’ articles, as I always tend to do, is that they end up having to be split into a number of posts, each getting further from the last, until both you (and I) more than likely forget what we were even reading, or writing, about. And when large absence’s happen on this site, then the usual excuse of ‘very busy’ gets pulled out and guess what – it’s been rolled out once... Read More

Things Could Only Be Genting Better!

Too much of a queue though I'm afraid... After what can only be described as one of the least restful nights sleeps’ I’ve ever had, we decided to cut our losses and just head straight into the park and get our day in the theme park done with, and get back home quickly to a land of hot smog-filled air and normal prices. Having assessed that all food options in Genting were significantly beyond our price expectations, we decided for breakfast,... Read More