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Guest Post: Jenni’s Top 5 Museums in Armenia
Jenni and I started talking on twitter in the realms of our respective rotation curation of the @i_amGermany account. Her blog on museums, Museum Diary, is insightful and thorough and a true joy to...
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Anecdotes – The Time I Met a World War II Witness
The value of travel has been discussed at large in many different places. All our favourite travel quotes speak of it, innumerable songs have been written about it and hostel common room walls are...
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So what is the Deal with East Germany?
When I lived in the States aged 16, I was asked a fair amount of weird questions about Germany. There were mostly the many variants of “Do you have X in Germany?” [Replace X by anything from...
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Outrageous – Leipzig’s Monument to the Battle of the Nations
There are places in Germany I am dying to see. I love discovering my own country, and there is more than enough to see that I haven’t seen yet, or that I haven’t seen enough of. Leipzig had for a long...
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The Things I Love About Poland – Part I
My self-imposed focus when it comes to travel and thus, to writing (since most of the time one means the other for me) is Eastern Europe. How that came about is a long story. But one part in it is...
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The Irony of Finding Peace in Bosnia
On my last night in Bosnia this time around (because let’s face it, I will come back!) I sit with new friends in a beautiful tea house in Sarajevos Baščaršija quarter, the ottoman downtown. We drink...
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Memory as Morbidity – Mostar’s Partisan Monument
I came to Bosnia this time around wanting to relax, to let go, and to find inner peace. I wanted to go somewhere I knew, without feeling the inner pressure of needing to discover a new place and...
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Guest Post: Lift Bridge in Karnin (Usedom), Germany
Guest post are a rare event on my blog, mainly because I am not monetized and I don’t do backlinks or anything like it. The more joyous the occasion wheh a friend wants to write about a bridge...
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Bikes, Sand Dunes, a Memorial, and the North Sea
You read me, so you know I love the Baltic. Now the important question is: Can you really love the North Sea when you love the Baltic? My hometown Hamburg is approximately the same distance from either...
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The Wall That Once Was
Tomorrow Germany will celebrate an important anniversary. Tomorrow 25 years ago, the Berlin Wall came down. It is one of my favourite topics to write about, the past of the devided Germany and what it...
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