Dec

24

brain is on holiday with the rest of me

December 24, 2011 | 2 Comments

Christmas tree in front of the Neues Rathaus in Munich Don’t think I did any sort of Christmas post last year, and I’m not sure why. For one thing, they really celebrate Advent here in Germany right up until Christmas Eve. The tree typically doesn’t even go up until the 24th. Then you keep it up for [...]

Oct

15

tea drinking in Weimar

October 15, 2011 | 4 Comments

What Goethe & Schiller need is a nice cup of tea Spent several days in Weimar this week, and if you know anything about me and this blog, you know that my first question was, ‘What sort of tea shops are there in this historically/artistically rich city?’Well, I have good news for you.  For a [...]

Aug

26

drinking tea out of jam jars

August 26, 2011 | 3 Comments

Found an interesting article in the print edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Wednesday 24 August 2011), but unfortunately I wasn’t able to locate it on their website. You’ll have to rely on my questionable retelling of it. There’s not actually much to it. It’s an article telling the stories of three different Turkish people [...]