New Year’s Day falls on a Sunday this year, which means that today will be my final post of 2011. So, let me be the first to wish you Guten Rutsch! That’s the expression we’ve heard people say around here to … Continue reading
Chris happened to run across the expression Glückspiltz! the other day. Literally translated, it means “You lucky mushroom”. It’s used like the English expression “You lucky devil”, or “You lucky dog.”
I know people have been asking me for a while to post some photos of all the furniture that we spent all fall chasing after. Well, just last week we finally got the tables (big and small) that were the … Continue reading
At every open-air market we’ve been to, there has always been at least one stand serving Würste (that the plural of Wurst, which are hot dogs, only bigger and thicker). What do you put on your Würste? Ketchup or mustard, of … Continue reading
Hope everyone had a good first day of Christmas yesterday. How’s Day 2 treating you? 😉
We had snow for several days in a row this week, but now the weather has turned a relatively balmy mid 40º F/6-8º C. So, the snow is all melted.
OK, so the expression is really “what’s good for the goose”, but I have a feeling that our dinner a couple of weeks ago was not so good for the goose. You see, our dinner was a seasonal speciality served … Continue reading
One of the best parts about writing a blog is that I can use it as an excuse for all the “research” that we need to do, now that we’re living in a yet another far-off land.
When we moved to Vancouver a few years back, people there told us “It never snows here”. But in fact it actually snowed in Vancouver.
Just a quick followup on that crazy carousel song from last week. As I mentioned, it was written by Jacques Brel, who was a big French singing star in the 1950s-1970s. He wrote his own songs and then performed them, … Continue reading