I’m sure you’re all familiar with the story of Little Red Riding Hood, right? There’s a young girl, and she wears a red cape with a red hood. She carries a basket of goodies and sets off through the forest … Continue reading
This is the first in what I have planned as a periodic series of photos of things that aren’t what they seem. Today’s entry: a restaurant named Gasthaus Bavaria.
It strikes me as I go through the my daily routine in Tübingen that everybody around me has also read the script for daily life that we learned that day in class. I.e., on any given day, perhaps we’ll … Continue reading
Today I had an odd experience of talking on the phone with our bank back in Bolzano. The friendly gentleman on the phone said he spoke English, so I switched to that, having originally asked — in both Italian and … Continue reading
On our first trip to the local library, Chris and I got a DVD with Top Hat, the old 1930s movie musical with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. It was a version which had been dubbed in German – the … Continue reading
We live in the Altstadt (literally, “old city”) part of Tübingen. Our building dates to 1513, although it was remodelled last year just before we moved in. I call our building one of the “rock stars” of the neighborhood; on … Continue reading
In my German class we had several writing exercises last week where we wrote in the style of a Grimm’s fairytale. This was in order to practice a particular grammar point that happens to be quite common when telling a … Continue reading
Back in November 2009 on my old blog, I wrote about eating a doughnut in Berlin. At the time, I titled the post “Ich (ate) ein Berliner” because I didn’t know how to say “eat” in German. How times have … Continue reading
Thanks everybody for all the feedback, comments and well-wishes the past few days about the photography show, as well as for all the comments over the past couple of weeks. I’m busy working on a post to follow-up on questions, … Continue reading
Last night’s opening of my Reflections photography show was great fun and as promised, today’s post has the photos Chris took of the exhibit and the opening.