I’ve mentioned it before, and I’ll mention it again. I miss Mexican (or Tex-Mex to be completely accurate) and Germans aren’t so good at making Mexican food. But Berlin kicks Freiburg’s ass at making Mexican food. During our short time in the city, I went hunting for the best Mexican food in Berlin.
The place in Hamburg for the best views of the city is St. Michael’s Cathedral due to the height of the bell tower. Since we were only in Hamburg for three days, we didn’t have the luxury of waiting for a clear day like we did when we went up Berlin’s TV Tower, but it […]
“Hey, there’s a museum with model train sets!” Andy said to me while we were researching our weekend trip to Hamburg. I like trains, but I have no real opinion on train models. But Andy LOVES trains, so of course I agreed to go. He read me a few things from the website, but I […]
If there’s a chance to go up in a high building and get a view from above a city, Andy and I will usually take it. Berlin’s Fernsehturm (TV Tower) can be seen from almost anywhere in the center of the city, and due to its great height, offers wonderful views of Berlin. We kept […]
On August 12, 1961, the citizens of East and West Berlin went to sleep like it was any other night. They woke up on August 13, 1961 to a barbed wire fence separating the two sides. Residents in the East who worked in the West could no longer get to their jobs. Families were torn […]
I really wasn’t going to write about this. Andy and I decided to go to a hockey game in Berlin, and we finally bought tickets for last Friday night. My dad and I used to get half season tickets for the Atlanta Thrashers every year, but I hadn’t been to a game in quite a […]
It was a Sunday, shortly after lunch, and we were sitting in our gloomy apartment. We still weren’t sure if we were going to commit to staying in the apartment until New Year’s or move someplace else for November and December, and the decision was wearing us down. Finally we realized the only way to […]
I’m not an easily adaptable person. I don’t often go with the flow. I panic too easily, worry too much and cry at things even I sometimes don’t understand. But I find myself in this life where we are home part of the year and somewhere else part of the year, constantly putting myself in […]
As part of Andy’s new status as a freelancer, he has to look for new projects every few months. His first contract as a freelancer was July and August with his old company, so about halfway through he started searching and applying for new contracts. But Freiburg isn’t a big commercial hub, and Andy wasn’t […]
I’ve been waiting for spring for a long time. Since right around the time the first chill of late fall hit the air. And since we got our first snow at the end of October, I think I’ve waited long enough for this dreary winter to call it quits. This past weekend, it finally happened. […]