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Eat & DrinkGothenburg: Thehuset
When I traveled to Sweden back in 2010, a friend back home asked me if I would stop by a tea shop in Gothenburg and get some of her favorite tea. Sweden is a…
August 15, 2014 · 2 min read
Eat & DrinkRecipe Roundup #16
Bruschetta with Tomato and Basil from Simply Recipes from Simply Recipes During the World Cup, I found myself making a lot of snack foods for watching the…
August 9, 2014 · 2 min read
Here & ThereGothenburg: Kungsportsavenyen
Of the month I spent in Scandinavia during the summer of 1994, one of the memories that sticks out the most is spending all afternoon at the amusement park…
August 4, 2014 · 3 min read
Life & TimesEast Berlin Plattenbauten
On my ride east to the Global Craft Beer Festival this past weekend, I traveled along Frankfurter Allee and Alt-Friedrichsfelde, a long stretch of road that is…
July 29, 2014 · 2 min read
Life & TimesBerlin: Global Craft Beer Festival
This weekend I made my way out to Marzahn for yet another beer festival, something which there seems to be no shortage of in Berlin. In contrast to the Berlin…
July 28, 2014 · 3 min read
Eat & DrinkBerlin: Marheineke Markthalle
I don't know if it's a Berlin thing or a Germany thing, but there were once a lot of Markthallen (market halls) here. In total, 14 of them were built in…
July 25, 2014 · 2 min read
Life & TimesLiebster Award
So a couple months back, Cynthia from adventurings (who I met earlier this year when she and her fiancé visited Berlin) nominated me for a Liebster Award.…
July 24, 2014 · 9 min read
Life & TimesCharlottenburg Buildings
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I love living in Kreuzberg. But sometimes it's also refreshing to stroll around in far West Berlin (e.g.…
July 22, 2014 · 2 min read
Life & Times36 to 61
It has been a busy month (more on that later, maybe), but right now is a really intense heatwave and my resources for typing anything that resembles an update…
July 21, 2014 · 3 min read
Eat & DrinkRecipe Roundup #15
Potatoes with Quark and Schnittlauch One of M.'s favorite meals of all time is a rather simple one, and it's a meal we both can enjoy rather easily; he eats…
July 19, 2014 · 1 min read
Life & TimesKreuzberg to Charlottenburg
This past Friday, M.'s company had its annual cocktail party at a riverside bar in Charlottenburg. The weather was uncharacteristically warm when compared to…
July 1, 2014 · 2 min read
Life & TimesOranium Deutsch Treffen
Before I moved to Germany, I took two years of German while working on my M.A. One year was at the local community college, and one year was at the university…
June 29, 2014 · 2 min read