Now. I’m not going to go so far as to say that I *like* the place, but after returning to Munich for the first time in five years I’m prepared to grudgingly admit that it’s (adopts voice of sullen teenager) “okay”*.
*On warm summer evenings. Whilst sitting in a beergarden. Drinking a beer. That someone […]
Whilst wondering how to find a job which pays enough to earn my passage away from these shores, I keep coming across job adverts which make those “earn ?500 a week or more driving a bus” stickers on the sides of big red vehicles sound very attractive:
For example:
“A highly motivated applicant is required for the […]
Mr Fact likes to keep a good overview of his finances. Some have called this petty meanness, others have said that he has lived in Swabia and Scotland for too long while others still have castigated his use of referring to himself in the third person. Whatever. His view of the people complaining about bank […]
I hate this. It’s not just amazon of course, they do however send me e-mail advertising from both their German and British sites. If I (say) receive an e-mail advertising something I’ve been after for a while from amazon.de: an iPod-type-thingie which doesn’t have a (delicate) hard drive in it and has the bonus of […]
As the number of letters from potential employers containing the words, “…despite your obvious potential, we regret to have to inform you that…” piles up and the amount of freelance work that I brought with me from Germany decreases, the idea of following the advice of my local Morrison’s financial advisor (Reason 237: Bigotry at […]
Deciding to live abroad. It’s a big decision to make. Not just because “they eat funny food”, although they do, but because you’ll have to organise various parts of your life that run differently here. Yeah, there’ll be things that you’ll have to do that are different - register with the local authorities, for example, […]
