The Deutschland Diaries

So these are one of my favorite bakery treats, they are called Puddingschnecken , or snails with a vanilla pudding filling and raisins. mmmm...

So, today is April Fool's Day, known as April April in German, and Poisson d'avril (April Fish) in France. ha. Those French... I ca...

Because I will not be here next week, I wish you all a Frohe Ostern in advance and share with you some pictures of beautiful German bakerie...

Okay, so this weekend has been like Culture-Extreme. Saturday I went to a book reading by a woman who wrote about Simone de Beauvoir , and h...

Thursday night I went to a book reading in the Frauenbibliothek , (women's library). The author is a second-generation Türkin, born in G...

torch = flashlight (I guess the Brits never understood electricity or something)

Man, I have a difficult time sometimes because the kids here learn British English. It's just little things, but they add up and are fru...

Today walking to the post office I was reminded of a scene in the movie L'Auberge Espagnole , where the protagonist first arrives in Bar...

So yesterday I went to Café Lolo , one of the cafés in Saarbrücken with the best reputation for torte...I had Herrentorte , a chocolate tort...

I was with a friend yesterday who got a new car, and said it was actually designed for an American market. Musing on the differences between...