Time to wrap up our car series from this year’s edition of the Mullheim city festival. You can probably tell from the posts of the past few days that I enjoyed myself. Will I go again next year? I wonder. I suspect most of the vehicles will be the same, so why bother? Then again, […]
As you would expect to find in Germany, the car show held as part of the annual Mullheim city festival was dominated by cars from German manufacturers, especially Mercedes and BMW. For me though, there were a few surprises. It wasn’t that there were relatively few Volkswagens on display. After all, if you have seen […]
Happy Independence Day! If you are an American this is a big thing, even if the holiday does fall on a Wednesday this year. For the rest of us, it is just another summer day. I could go on a rant about America’s history and place in the world, its politics and social problems, but […]
Mostly pictures today, from Sunday’s car show that was held as part of the Mullheim Stadtfest, or City Festival. There were a lot of vehicles I had never seen before outside of books and movies. That’s what happened when you are in Europe I guess – there were certainly no old Fords. No really old […]
I’m not and never have been a car guy. If it has four wheels and gets me where I am going, then I’m happy. Which examine why I drive an 16-year-old Opel. Still, I went to the car show Sunday in Mullheim. It wasn’t something I could avoid – the three blocks closed to traffic […]
Happy Canada Day! Or, if you are of a certain age and prefer the old usage, Happy Dominion Day. If you are not Canadian, feel free to join in the celebrations. Everyone loves a party, right? Canadians are not celebrating our nation’s birthday by using legal marijuana to get stoned, which had been the government’s […]
Another Flohmarkt (flea market) is being held today in Sulzburg. As I post this, it has about five hours left to run. We just had one about a month ago, and I have a story to tell from that one, I think on Monday. It’s not something I have been putting off but rather something […]
About 25 years ago, maybe a little more, Canadians began changing the way they shopped. In some ways they were just catching up to Europe. The change was not in what we purchased or when we went to the store, but rather in how we took the goods we bought home. As paper bags had […]
No rioting in the streets – Germans are too stunned for that. For the first time ever, the country’s football team has been eliminated in the opening round of the World Cup. It is tough for North Americans to understand just how big a deal that is. When I was growing up soccer, or football […]
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