Christmas: Day 2
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Hope everyone had a good first day of Christmas yesterday. How’s Day 2 treating you? 😉
Category Archives: Daily Life
Up on the roof
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.
What was good was the goose…
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
Seasonal Treat
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.
Let it snow
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.
Another ride on the crazy carousel
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
The Tübingen Weihnachtsmarkt
Due to my spending time studying for today’s German test, this post about the Tübingen Christmas Market didn’t get finished yesterday. But my studying paid off: I’m happy to report that I got an “A” on the exam and for … Continue reading
Zum Geburtstag viel Glück!
In what I always consider an unusual coincidence, my father and Chris’ father were both born on December 14th, which means they share a birthday.
Festival Food
We did our best to sample our way through the Tübingen Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas Market) on Sunday. We only had a couple of hours in which to do it, though. So, we didn’t get a complete survey of all the foods on … Continue reading
Trees grow in Tübingen
As I’m sitting here munching on some Magenbrot, literally “stomach bread” — a Christmas cookie that’s nothing like the name implies— I’m sorting my photos from this past weekend’s Christmas market here in Tübingen. And I realize that I’m not … Continue reading