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Break Out The Ribena
Every time I travel to the UK, I buy lots of the wondrous edible products which have helped make our country justifiably famous throughout the globe as a centre for culinary excellence. Apart from the Skips, which last about three…
Posted in Day 2 Day, Ze Tjermans
Well, That’ll Stop It Happening Again
It seems to be that kidnapping “important” foreigners (i.e. North Americans and Europeans and not just Turkish truck drivers) is big in the news from Iraq again. A German archaeologist called Susanne Osthoff has been kidnapped and Spiegel, at least,…
Posted in Politics, dreary, Ze Tjermans
Lazy Stereotype About Germans Number 158
“They’re all very open and direct about sexual matters” I was English, she was German. We were at the same Scottish university (me for the maximum sentence the law allows, her for a year abroad) and, despite four or five…
Posted in Girls, Cars, Sport..., Ze Tjermans
It’s Always The Bloody Germans…
Things haven’t been going entirely to plan over the course of November. Fair enough, shit happens, etc. etc. Not really a big problem. The “problem” has been my reactions towards said setbacks. In every single case, the person who has…
Posted in Day 2 Day, Ze Tjermans
Flathunt: The Gayest Man In The World
Part of the joys of looking for an apartment is that not only does one get to see empty flats, but also flats which are currently occupied. This is great fun – one can mentally ridicule the tastes of the…
Posted in Ze Tjermans
Flats in Stuttgart
I’ve (amongst other, more pleasant things) spent the past few days looking for flats in and around Stuttgart. This basically involves getting up really early, ringing every single number published in the Stuttgarter Zeitung, maybe being a teensy bit flexible…
Posted in Day 2 Day, Ze Tjermans
Stuttgart Blog
I’ve added a new link to the sidebar for the Stuttgart Blog – it’s a collaborative blog (in German) for people, by people, about people (to paraphrase the Yorkshire Tea advert) in and around Stuttgart. To quote the blog’s er…
Posted in Blog Stuff, Ze Tjermans
The Krauts…
We Anglo-Saxons are often a bit mean to you Germans. We have a tendency to think of you as hyper-efficient automatons, with a bit of a militaristic tendency (okay, so you’ve gone slightly pacifist of late, and the trains don’t…
Posted in Stupidity / FFS, Ze Tjermans
German Word For The Day
Untertiteln : Subtitles My first sojourns into Europe were to Sweden, the Netherlands and then France. France was really just a few weeks with a family near Limoges as a school exchange, so that hardly counts. But in Sweden and…
Posted in Language & Lit, Ze Tjermans
