Wadlstrumpf

We stayed at a bizarre, ridiculously expensive little hotel in Orta San Giulio. We had the "penthouse suite," which meant riding t...

Thanks to an odd twist of fate, as of this afternoon we're back in our old apartment in Freiburg for the next few weeks. We spent the pa...

There's a certain sound that a door makes when it closes and locks behind you. When you are on the outside of your apartment door with y...

Germany has a population density of about 230 people per square kilometer, compared to about 30 people/km 2 in the United States. Unoccupie...

Today in a brochure about kids' summer camps, I read a word even longer than Hochsicherheitsgefangene: Asylbewerberleistungsgesetz. A wh...