Category Archives: Germany

A slice of Schwerin

Posted on May 12, 2019 by arleebug54

I was fortunate that my good friend K recently invited M and me to go visit our friend U in Schwerin, giving us a chance to see the famous castle there and take a turn around the historic small town. … Continue reading →

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Görlitz, the Sleeping Beauty of Silesia

Posted on March 24, 2019 by arleebug54

Last week was an interesting confluence of the spring equinox and a full “Worm” moon, so named because of the thawing earth bringing the reappearance of earthworms and hence the robins. Well, it certainly thawed me out and put me … Continue reading →

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Hints of Heidelberg and Happy Trails

Posted on February 26, 2019 by arleebug54

As some of you know, I spent a fair bit of my youth tucked away in rural southern California on the Mojave Desert. There’s a back story, of course, but what’s relevant here is that my little burg sported a … Continue reading →

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A hint of Hamburg

Posted on December 30, 2017 by arleebug54

It’s unfortunate that many of us make our first acquaintance of the word “Hamburg” through the lens of that most American food group, the hamburger. It’s true that there is a kind of flattened meatball from the region known as … Continue reading →

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Art and Life in Potsdam

Posted on April 14, 2017 by arleebug54

There are a lot of really good reasons to visit Potsdam, a city in its own right 24 km/15 miles southwest of Berlin. Designed using Age of Enlightenment ideals, it was intended to convey “a picturesque, pastoral dream” to remind … Continue reading →

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Just a bit of kitsch in Kölsch…

Posted on April 4, 2017 by arleebug54

One of the sidelights of spending stretches of time in Europe is that I can actually make plans to do things in the future, as opposed to merely trying to see as much as possible in a short period of … Continue reading →

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Looking for solace in remembrance of the past

Posted on November 11, 2016 by arleebug54

If there were ever a country that has been handed its rear body part to it on a platter due to a bad election result, it would of course have to be Germany and and the decision its citizens made … Continue reading →

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Scenes from the street

Posted on June 5, 2016 by arleebug54

Besides feverishly studying German (ahem), many of my waking hours here in Berlin were spent, er, walking the streets. As you’ve probably surmised, I love walking in general, but on wide, well-maintained urban sidewalks with little to no elevation through … Continue reading →

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Fertig….finished….

Posted on May 31, 2016 by arleebug54

A month-long intensive language course is a strange animal. One barely gets into the routine, learns the way to school, gets to know the teachers and fellow students, figures out how to study (again), begins to feel some proficiency, and … Continue reading →

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Ein Wochenende in Nürnberg (a weekend in Nuremberg)

Posted on May 24, 2016 by arleebug54

One of the unexpected outcomes of this student excursion was the opportunity to attend my first European pen show. Now as you may know, I have been a member of the national and international pen community for some time now, … Continue reading →

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