It has been a long time with no writing! Even now I am writing this on a train on its way to Kulmbach, as train rides are the only time I have for myself anymore and the swaying and bumping of the regional train makes the typing...

Yes it is true, in Stuttgart Mercedes are everywhere. They practically litter the city. OK, so I am exaggerating. But that is exactly how I felt on the May1st holiday when I backed into one with a rather loud (and may I add a...

As of 2:30 in the afternoon of April 28th my plane will have landed and I will be in Stuttgart. The apartment is sorted (I will arrive just in time to help move our stuff). We have chosen our land line and internet provider. I...

I have a highly flexible personality. So coordinating the search for a new apartment from separate continents should not have been a challenge. Yes I am in Ontario, Canada, and Patrick is still in Stuttgart, but I mean really,...

My relationship to Germany is almost as complicated as my relationship to my German partner. And without describing my relationship to Patrick I can not even begin to describe how I came to study the German language, or more...