Two things have happened in the last month that for a while seemed practically impossible. The first is that, after the longest, hardest winter imaginable and virtually no spring to speak of (see previous post) we are finally blessed with the warm breezes, sun and blue sky, and languidly long nights that can only mean [...]
Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category
Lazy Winter, Busy June
Posted in Long Trips, Work, tagged Bertelsmann Stiftung, Bonn, Deutsche Welle, Future Challenges, Prague on 12/07/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Road Trip to the West and Back
Posted in General Musings, Long Trips, tagged Abendbrot, Cologne/Köln, Fussball, Heidelberg, Trier on 15/03/2010 | Leave a Comment »
I took a trip way back in October 2008 (which seems like far longer than a mere year and a half ago) with my friend Meredith (and fellow blogger) to the wilds of Southern Germany and Austria, stopping first in Munich, and then continuing on to Salzburg and Vienna. I didn’t know enough German to [...]
The Hardest Thing
Posted in General Musings, Long Trips on 15/02/2010 | Leave a Comment »
The hardest thing about moving to another country is the distance. That may seem obvious, but I’ll explain. When you’ve made the decision to spend such a big portion of your life so far away from your family, there’s always the possibility that something serious will happen and you’ll be called back. Or that you [...]
So Nice They Named It Twice
Posted in America, General Musings, Long Trips, tagged The Transatlantic Shuffle on 05/12/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Anyone coming back to New York from Berlin will tell you that the entire experience is weird, uncanny, unheimlich to use a German turn of phrase. I mean, you get off the plane into one of the dingiest, most unwelcoming airports known to man, get into a bus or a cab if you’re lucky, and [...]
Chronicle of an Apple-Picking Excursion
Posted in Day Trips, tagged Baumblütenfest, Gästhaus Henne, Havel, obstwein, Werder on 20/09/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Although I sometimes feel like I don’t get out of Berlin enough, I have to say that when a daytrip finally occurs (after being mentioned briefly and wistfully, discussed in truth, and then planned, talked about, and obsessed over for weeks on end) it is so glorious and transcendent as to make one wish it [...]
