Tag Archives: Germany
Succumbing To Click Bait
Sometimes technology scares me. Not so much the machines themselves, but what can be done with them. For my first couple of months in Germany I didn’t bother to change the time on my computer. It seemed unnecessary. Maybe it was a coping mechanism as I adjusted to this new reality. Eventually though I set […]
The Slow Boat Arrives
I wrote last week about some mild frustrations I was experiencing with a couple of packages I had ordered online. Living where I do, online shopping is usually the only option. In the first week of November I ordered knives, measuring spoons, measuring cups, a couple of compact discs, a new BlackBerry and I don’t […]
Public Transit Quirk
Coming from a North American city and settling in rural Germany, you know some things are going to be different. One of those things cropped up yesterday. We were taking the bus between Sulzburg and Mullheim. Depending on the time of day, the bus takes either 20 or 40 minutes to make the trip. It […]
Chaos In The Streets (Cultural Differences VIII)
I had been told that Germans celebrate the New Year with fireworks. Experiencing that was far more intense than the description. In Canada fireworks are a controlled affair for the most part. If a holiday is deemed important enough to warrant such pyrotechnics, it is usually the municipality that stages the show. Safety concerns […]
Downtown Staufen
Sunday afternoon nothing is open in Germany, at least not where we live. And December 24 not many people were out window shopping – everyone was already home with family. We took the opportunity to visit Staufen, which is about five kilometres from home. I had been through the castle on my first visit to […]
Another Christmas Market???!!!
I thought we were done. After visiting six different Advent/Christmas markets there was no reason to see any more. Saturday though we went to Freiburg, mostly because we could. Our weekends have been busy, but suddenly we had a Saturday with no previous commitments. Plus, we had a transit pass which allowed us to make […]
The Rink
I saw the sign, and didn’t think it was that big a deal. From Nov. 26 to Dec. 27 there would be a skating rink set up on the pedestrian mall in Mullheim, the largest town in our region. It is only now that I am beginning to appreciate that it is a big event. […]
Christmas Market – Heitersheim II
A photo essay for you today. If you need commentary, that was in yesterday’s post.
Christmas Market – Heitersheim
I’m sure there are other Christmas Markets happening in the area, but we have reached the saturation point. Maybe next year. But we did make one exception, for a Sunday afternoon trip to Heitersheim. It was a sunny Sunday, and the town is a five kilometre walk; we had been told it was possibly the […]
Fall Colours
Technically it isn’t winter until Thursday, though we started off Monday with our first snow of the season. It didn’t last though. We had sunshine by early afternoon, and by the time I made a grocery run it was a beautiful day. I snapped some pictures on my walk home. The colours on the hills […]
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