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 run quite as punctually as they used to, but hey, our stereotypes remain). We Brits […]
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 Holland I got to watch some TV and it was in English, there were subtitles in […]
Or, “We’re all going to die. Why did I let the English guy drive the car?”
In case you’re not aware, gentle reader, in the UK and Ireland, we drive on the other side of the road to the Continentals and indeed, you North Americans (although the Irish are messing about with their road signs, just […]
“Zeugen Jehovahs“
Okay, it’s an easy one - “Jehovah’s Witnesses”, but what do you do when you find yourself on your doorstep talking to two of them? I could follow the example of my father who, when asked “If there was one thing that God could change in the world for you, what would it be?” […]
It’s a Saturday; you’ve had a shitty week, so when you get up and draw the blinds to see that the crisp, sunny weather of the past ten days has been replaced by cold, pissing rain, you can just about summon up the energy to make a cup of tea, redraw the blinds and get […]
I reckon the last two posts qualify me to attend the Whiny Ex-Pat Bloggers German Meet Up, but now I have a confession to make: I like Germany. I like (some) Germans. I eat Maultaschen and Zwiebelkuchen with Neuer Wein, I like Käsespätzle and Krautschupfnudeln and Flädlesuppe and when I visit Britain I’m shocked at […]
