Did y’all know Oktoberfest is actually called Wiesn in Germany? Did you also know that I’m headed there after work today? I’ll spend the weekend there and head back to Munich on Wednesday. I’m a lucky girl, I realize that. Beer festivals might just be my essence and in the next few days I will [...]
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1. Describe your perfect day. Ah, a perfect day for me certainly begins with sleeping in until about 11 am. I would wake up and eat either a) a butter brezel or b) flourless pancakes. It would be a glorious Saturday morning, I would not be hungover, and the sun would be shining with the temperature at [...]
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About 18 months ago during my last semester of college (or ‘Uni’ as I’ve grown used to calling it here), I posted my friend map courtesy of Where My Friends Be? This concept really is awesome, because beyond seeing where your Facebook friends are scattered, you can actually click on the location marker and see who [...]
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You log onto this website. Select Karlsruhe, then Flatshare. You stare at a long list of entries and click pretty much every entry located in the actual city, read the descriptions and hop to emailing. Some furnished. Some not. Some mixed gender. Some 5 bedroom, some 2. Some updated kitchens. Some look like they survived [...]
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Whoa, let me begin with stating how happy I am to be sitting in my bed right now. Between Erasmus Orientation Week, thew new job and apartment hunting, the only time I have been home is to pass out immediately in my bed. I have worked at the new job for a week now. I [...]
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Welcome to my first edition of stuff I like. It seems as though every other blogger does this and lately I like a lot of stuff, so I figured I’d share. Bacon Number Google’s got quite a few tricks up its sleeve, but this one has got to be the weirdest. The search giant took [...]
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So I wasting away my daily allotted Pinterest time slot on Sunday when I repinned something… something special. This was not your usual, ‘maybe someday’ repin. This one had to happen immediately. Honestly, it looked too good to be true. In following the pin, I was brought here to a blog I had not see [...]
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Yesterday, we hopped (ok, trained) up to Bad Dürkheim in the Pfalz for Wurstmarkt, a nearly 600 year old wine festival. The Pfalz is a large wine region in Germany and is known particularly for it’s white, dry (trocken auf Deutsch) tasting wines. Germany is world famous for it’s Rieslings after all. Rieslings just don’t [...]
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After a whirlwind year in Germany and slowly settling into round two here, there is one thing I am certain of. Germans love apples. Germans are one of the largest importers of apples worldwide and it makes sense when you witness the popularity. Por ejemplo: Plain apples (Äpfel) Apple sauce (Apfelmus) – beyond eating it [...]
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After spending an entire week at a certified Kinderhotel (Children’s Hotel) in Austria, I just had to say this is the most genius idea ever. Initially, I thought the Kinderhotel was one hotel, but it’s actually a theme in which a hotel adopts to be a part of the exclusive group of Kinderhotels. For me “working”, [...]
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