It wouldn’t be right to ring in the new year without sharing my final Christmas Market experience of 2009 , in Hannover. We technically visited the Christmas Market in front of Hauptbahnhof twice — once on our way to a family visit in Hildesheim and once on our way back, so I was able to …
Maybe you’ve noticed? I added some new banners to the site. My favorite thing about the theme I’m using is that you can add as many banners as you want and they’ll just keep randomly rotating with every page change. Love it. Anyway, so below are the larger photos of the banners I’ve just added, …
Good news, folks! The German government has decided that I’m allowed to stay in their country for another half a year. This buys me some time to finish my current research project and set myself up for a longer stay in Deutschland. What a relief. It always kills me to have that visa extension stuff …
First off, Happy Halloween! Although it certainly feels like that time of year, there is not a whole lot of evidence that its Halloween over here. And we’re not helping things by going to see Thomas Quasthoff in concert tonight at the Philharmonie, which is kind of like the opposite of trick or treating. …