I love ice cream. I love it so much that I’m quite confident in saying that, over the course of my life, the days in which I’ve eaten ice cream outnumber the days in which I haven’t, and yes, that’s including years 0-2 (ish), when you don’t eat any ice cream at all. It’s one…
Freshly baked bread is a big deal around here, and there are bakeries on nearly every corner. For us, the brötchen (small rolls) provide an inexpensive and filling snack, and we’ve probably each eaten 20 or so of them in the two weeks that we’ve been in Germany. There is a clear distinction to be…
I’ve heard it before, but always as part of a cliché about Germans. “Germans love cars and rules and beer. They like beer so much, it’s cheaper than water!” But as with all stereotypes, there is some truth. In some places, it is in fact MUCH cheaper to drink beer than water. Our first night…
Getting ready to move to Germany required a long list of things that needed to be taken care of. And each time we checked something off, dozens more appeared (or so it seemed). Who would’ve thought that moving to another country takes so much effort and planning! First, we needed to decide where in Germany…
The Wildly Ordinary Life 