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Munich’s Pulse During a Frigid Winter Week

January 31st, 2010 · No Comments

Below are a sampling of colors and shapes and lack thereof during a cold January week in Munich this past month.

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Zwirbeldirn Gives us a Taste of Bavarian Jingle

January 30th, 2010 · No Comments

Zwirbeldirn plays and sings Bavarian music at this past week’s DLD Conference in Munich.

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Bavarian Cuisine: Not a Match for the Light Eater

January 30th, 2010 · No Comments

While food was clearly not my on my high list of kudos in Germany this past week, I managed to sample a cross selection of traditional German food in beer halls, restaurants, cosmopolitan bistros, pubs, markets as well as the renown Dallmayr exquisite food shop along Munich’s Dienerstr.
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Erotic Chocolate in Germany? You Betcha

January 30th, 2010 · No Comments

Click below to energize your senses with the aromas of homemade German chocolate. Tucked away on a side street not far from Munich’s food market where you are mainly faced with sausage, sausage and more sausage, a little gem called Sama Sama sits.
The building itself on Westenriederstr is crooked and crammed inside, every corner filled [...]

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Berlin Wall

September 18th, 2009 · No Comments

Taken from The Times Column on September 7, 2009 – written by South African writer Toby Shapshak.
In the end it was a silly mistake that saw the Berlin Wall ripped down. Under pressure, the East German government planned to ease that travel restrictions to-and-from east and west Berlin, but the apparatchik announcing it at a [...]

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Who doesn’t love to party? Check out these top 5 events in Germany for your fix!

June 19th, 2009 · No Comments

Nuremberg Christmas Market (Nuernberger Christkindlesmarkt) in Nuremberg

Millions of sparkling lights, a spectacular nativity scene, beautiful ornaments, carved nutcrackers, handmade toys, beeswax candles, tons of gingerbread and the smell of roasted almonds, Stollen or hot mulled wine are just a few of the things you can find at this Christmas Market. The Nuremberg Christmas Angel opens [...]

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Half of German Immigrants Feel Like Outsiders

June 15th, 2009 · No Comments

According to a recent survey, half of all immigrants feel like outsiders in German society and say their achievements don’t measure up.

More from The Local, the survey was done by the Bertelsmann Foundation who surveyed 1,581 immigrants. Results: those from Turkey and Russia were most likely to feel like an outsider in their adopted country: [...]

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