T̶w̶o̶ One p̶e̶r̶p̶e̶t̶u̶a̶l̶ ̶e̶x̶p̶a̶t̶s̶ immigrant settling into home country number five.
Looking to get away from Dublin and explore more of Ireland last weekend, we set our sights on Cashel. The guidebooks seemed to think it wasn’t worth much time, but for our purposes it worked divinely. The least exciting part of the trip, to me anyway, was Cashel’s big tourist attraction: the Rock of Cashel. … Read more
Headbang8 and TQE, care to join me for some falafel?
The other day we found ourselves in Waterford, Ireland, home of the famous crystal. Naturally we decided to stop in at the factory’s visitor center. We were pleased to find a tour of the galleries leaving right away, led by a charming man who was quite knowledgeable about the pieces on display. The crystal creations … Read more
Reporting on the plane crash in upstate New York this morning: German reporter on N24: These are all one-family houses with large plots of land around them, so the plane crashed into only one house. American reporter from CNN: This is a small community with houses very close together, so it’s very lucky that only … Read more
Alternate title: Hanging out in Ireland’s Canada Eager to explore someplace new, we dug out our British pounds* and drove north into Northern Ireland for the weekend. Less than three hours from Dublin and we were at the north coast of the island, which I suppose would be northern Northern Ireland. They seem to prefer … Read more
Greetings from Dublin, where I’m hanging out for a little while. I’m a bit disappointed to be missing out on the harsher winter back home in Munich, but at least we’ve seen a bit of snow here in the past couple days (although nothing like what London got). The sun has made itself scarce. So … Read more
We recently got home from a fabulous long weekend in Paris, but I’ve been putting off blogging about it because I can’t think of anything to say. I mean, I could tell you about what we did, saw, and ate, but none of it seems particularly insightful, entertaining, or original. But hey, that doesn’t stop … Read more
If you haven’t already, go see the amazing Kandinsky exhibit at the Lenbachhaus. It’s only in Munich through February 22nd, after which it travels to Paris and New York (but without the Blaue Reiter show that’s here in Munich with it). Give yourself plenty of time to see both buildings.
While I’m glad that the Germans adore Obama as much as I do, I found this to be a little much (it’s the intro for DSDS, the German version of American Idol). To quote David Sedaris, get your own black president!
You know you want some…