Germany Doesn't Suck

to go on business trips to great places like New York City, Barcelona & London.
What do I get? Two days in a village of 390 people in the hills 60 km from the city (middle of nowhere).
Off I go!

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Last night I had a dream about people arriving for the first full day of our Expat Blogger Meet-Up (year unknown). I arrived by bike and Claire and family arrived by horse and buggy. Jen was there (with brown hair) when I walked into the lounge (with wooden furniture) as were Cliff and Sarah and [...]

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(due to lack of time). Written on 2 Jan 2008
The trip north stated when my new alarm clock rudely woke me up at 7h. I didn’t sleep well because I didn’t get to bed til 2h and was worried that I’d sleep through the alarm (I had also set the alarm on my mobile phone [...]

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Taken 25 October 2009 in MyCity, Germany

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in an internet chatroom to someone (B) who had never heard of it (I am J in this convo). I was just about falling out of my chair laughing.
B: What’s curling
J: hair, B, hair
O: lol J
G: B they slide a big paper weight down the ice and 2 ppl with swiffer brooms chase it
B: hahahhaahahahahah [...]

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(a day late, but Travel Wednesday doesn’t have the same ring).
There have been places that I have heard about in life and have wanted to visit, and I’ve made some of them come true. I had always dreamt of visiting Venice and Dubrovnik, and accomplished seeing both in 2003 (I did try to get to [...]

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Has anyone made the switch from paper books to books on Kindle?
I’ve recently found out that Kindle exists and that there’s even an Ipod Touch App for it, so I downloaded it last week. This morning, I found a free sample of an e-book that interested me, downloaded it to my device, started reading it [...]

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Nominations for the Academy Awards are out. Best Picture is the one that I follow and here are the films up for it:
“Avatar”
“The Hurt Locker”
“The Blind Side”
“District 9″
“An Education”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire”
“A Serious Man”
“Up”
“Up in the Air.”
Which ones have you seen and do you agree that they should be [...]

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(gotta love that Wordpress App)
All times CEST (Germany).
04:02 – SQ973 has the smoothest takeoff I have ever experienced. Aisle seat 39D. Front wheels lifted off at 267 kph.
04:10 – headphones handed out.
4:18 – I turn on the on demand entertainment system anmd find out that the booklet is different than what’s on the screen, so [...]

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at an airport hotel in tropical warm weather as planes are landing
- who are these people
- why did they choose Thailand?
- is it their first time here?
- will they like this country?
- will they visit other countries?
- will they like Bangkok as much as I do?
- will they return?
- how old are they?
- so [...]

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I’ll be flying back to Bangkok today for a few days. A last blast of vibrant city life will be quite nice before returning to SleepyColdCountry.

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Has anyone heard/read predictions from people in-the-know about how much further the Euro is going to fall to the US$? It’s fallen quite a bit in the last month.
BBC is blaming it on the Greeks and their creative accounting this time, but it sounds like an attempt at justification to avoid panic. The Euro [...]

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2010
- June/July – USA (PA, NYC & CA)
- Dec/Jan 2011- central & northern Vietnam
2011
- A week in France by car
- Cambodia?
2012
- London (Olympics)
- More Cambodia?
2013
- Egypt (most likely not in the summer)
- Insert warm Asian country here

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