Now that I’m nearly pretty much done with my thesis and I can devote more time to blogging again, the amazing bookshops around the world section is back. I kid you not, I have about 25 bookshops to add to this section. Isn’t that amazing? If you’re a new reader and want to know more [...]
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Things I miss about Munich
It looks like this week is my “let’s get emotional” week. I can’t wait until it’s over and I can go back to being a cold-hearted bitch. Or at least pretending to be one. Today marks five years (!!!) since I moved to Munich. This means several things: I am getting old. I miss Munich [...]
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Berlin 2009
Last week I shared photos from my trip to Hamburg two years ago. After Hamburg I went to Berlin, where my friend Sara was working at the time. It wasn’t my first time in the city, so instead of taking in all the sights we just hung out in the sun, browsed second hand shops, [...]
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Hamburg 2009
Have you seen that new Facebook feature that shows you what your status was 2 years ago today? I hate it. I hate it because I don’t want to be reminded of fun times when I’m not emotionally ready for them. The other day Facebook kindly reminded me that 2 years ago I was going [...]
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the ghosts of winter past
I miss 2006 and living next to the mountains. (click on the photos to see them bigger on flickr)
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200 days of blogging
So, this is my post number 200. Quite a large amount if you choose to ignore that this blog was started three years ago. A lot of things have happened. Some old friends are no longer friends, some new ones have been made, lots of records have been bought and an obscene amount [...]
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Summer is STILL here
Brighton, UK. Salto del Molino, Teruel, Spain. Venice, Italy. Southside Festival, Germany.
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Why the Germans do Christmas better
All the photos were taken in Munich in December 2006. Bigger and better on my flickr
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>A book and a movie
> I started reading ‘A woman in Berlin’, the anonymously published diaries of a young woman’s life in Berlin during the last days of the second World War, at some point last year and didn’t finish it until the other night. I abandoned the book for a few months because it was just too much [...]
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>Hallo, ich bin deine Menstruation.
> Apparently German discount supermarket chain Lidl doesn’t allow its employees to take bathroom breaks unless they are on their period, and they are required to signal this by wearing a hair-band. How bizarre. I wonder if men will start claiming to have psychological periods in order to be able to piss freely. On the [...]
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>Deutschland über alles
> Reading the English version of the German magazine Der Spiegel I found out that a Polish DJ known as DJ Tomekk has been kicked out of the German version of “I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here” because he was filmed making the Nazi salute and singing the ‘forbidden’ verse of the German anthem; [...]
