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By the Seaside
Despite being raised in different hemispheres, in countries as different as feta and cheddar, SG and I are both beach people. While I grew up splashing around in the Pacific, spending long summers on...
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Rows and Rows
Two things, both independent of each other, and often working in cahoots, make you get out and about more in your own neighbourhood; visitors and good weather. April and May gave us the former in...
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It’s Always Grey in Laboe
Well, that’s not true. Let me qualify; it’s mostly grey in Laboe when we’re there. The sun does shine over this village, we have seen it once. And I believe a few weekends ago, when our Münsteranian...
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An Awful Lot of Light
Zooming back home on the Deutsche Bahn, after a sunny afternoon spent in Hamburg with average coffee and completely non-average friends, I was seized by a familiar sensation. It is one that hits around...
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Schietwetter & Eating Volksfest Style
With just four full days remaining of our city’s biggest festival, and the world’s largest sailing event, you will be pleased to know, the weather is atrocious. Beyond bad. Grey, wet, depressing, cold....
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Summer up North
I may be completely lacking in objectivity as I boldly claim that, come summer in Germany – real summer – there is no better place in this country to be, than up north. You can keep your mountains and...
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Sunday Ausflug: Thwarted Backfisch
The car battery needed a run, so despite my adamant claims I would not be leaving the house on Sunday given the minus temperatures, we drove out to Laboe. The plan was to park metres from our preferred...
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Geh nach Norden
I say Germany, most people say Oktoberfest, Lederhosen, Wurst, Bavarian beer, mountains, snow, Schnitzel, Berlin, the Black Forest. At a pinch, perhaps images of the Pfalz’s vineyards, or Dresden’s...
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Blue
I’ve been in a relationship with north Germany since 2011. I think I first came up here in February 2011 and it was ferociously cold. I walked along the Linie for 10 metres, drank a hot chocolate in a...
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Explore Northern Germany
Start Here How to Speak Like a North German What I Know About North Germans North vs South Some Thoughts on North German Cuisine Summer up North Now Go Explore … Pretty Pockets of Kiel (And a few more...
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