Herzlich willkommen and welcome to the new home of Two to TÜ! Just to be clear, it’s just the blog that has a new address; Chris and I are still living in the same place. Continue reading
Moving right along
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Tap dancing around the behind-the-scenes delays
I’m pleased to announce that the first round of behind-the-scenes changes to the blog are done, but there’s still a bit more to do. As a result here will be another little hiatus tomorrow while I attack those. Check back on Monday – I’m hoping to be done by then, but computer things always take long than you think. So, we’ll see how it goes. In the meantime, Continue reading
Pay no attention to changes behind the blog software
For those who don’t recognize the title, it’s a play on the line “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain,” from the movie The Wizard of Oz. Continue reading
The Dog Days of Montpellier
The so-called “Dog Days of Summer” are defined in Wikipedia as “the hottest, most sultry days of summer.” As I wandered around Montpellier, France last week, that was the phrase that came to mind. Of course, that phrase was probably prompted by seeing several dogs like this one, who were beating the heat in a way I envied:
(Time) Traveling
So we’re off this week to France — Chris is presenting a paper at a conference there, and I’ll be tagging along for the ride. And the photo ops. And the cafes. And the food. 🙂 Continue reading
The Mystery in the Old Library
Another mystery solved here in Tübingen, this time thanks to Chris.
Muddy Water
We had a couple of huge storms over the weekend – thunder, lightening, hail, gale-force winds. The works. Continue reading
What it was, was fußball
The other day, a friend of mine from the German class, who is Russian, commented that she wasn’t watching the Euro2012 soccer matches on TV. That surprised me, since her husband is a fan, and their son plays soccer (aka “football” here in Europe). But she said that watching 22 men spend 90 minutes running run back and forth on a long, green field, in a chase after a tiny ball that they keep trying to take away from each other, was boring.
Two things came to mind. Continue reading
The things you hear
One of the things that is always striking to us in Venice is how much English we hear on the streets, from both Americans and British speakers. Continue reading
The mystery of the berry that begins with an “H”
A couple of weeks ago, I started to see some unusually colored fruit the size of large, colorful golf balls. I didn’t know what they were, and so I made a mental note that they started with an “H” in German. unfortunately, I didn’t write the actual word down, though; all I recalled later was that it was s something like Hackelbeere or Hachelbeere or Hunckelbeere or Huckelbeere. I remembered also thinking to myself at the time that the word reminded me a little of the English word “huckelberry”. Continue reading