Back to Berlin...and BEYOND

Do these people look like they know what they're doing? I am always so pleased when someone stumbles onto this blog and actually en...

Won't you please let us live here? It's been a little quiet here lately.  That's because life has been busy , as discussed ...

"Good decisions" aren't my strong point. I'm in for adventure, making every day count and a bit of the crazy. Thus you...

As former Seattlites obsessed with our needle, it's a bit funny that we ended up in another city with a fondness for a futuristic to...

I keep thinking about this blog. I love tracking our adventures in Berlin and beyond here and have a stack of posts on our recent t...

It is impossible to ignore that the World Cup is happening right now. And Germany is winning. News of the tournament is all over so...

I've written about our cat , importing pets from abroad and adopting the bunnies - I never wanted to write a post about a lost cat i...

Even with Berlin ’s wonderful transportation options, the city can be a monster to traverse. Walking is inevitable no matter your mode o...

My parents were on their third visit to Berlin and though we'd had a great time checking out baby stuff and traipsing about Switzerl...

This city is full of nondescript, even decrepit-looking buildings that hide a world of Berlin history. So we weren't put off when we a...

Our first year in Berlin we traveled all over Germany . We loved train travel and getting to know small-town Germany. This time around ...

We hadn't planned on visiting the Allied Museum. It is located by the American embassy all the way down in Dahlem and we had never e...

Sometimes called Berlin ’s ‘Vietnamese mall’, the Dong Xuan Center was originally run and frequented by East Berlin's expat Vietnam...

Looking for something to do on Valentine's Day is always a challenge. Not one for fine dining or flowers, I am usually on the hunt fo...

Once again , we took to Berlin's UBahn to drink and rate our way through an entire line's stations, simultaneously horrifying and ...

If I got you down with my last post - sorry about that! I've been feeling down while looking for work and seriously felt my love for t...

Usually I look at the "Berlin Hates You" signs and smile grimly, happy to have made it this far in a tough city to call home. B...

After such a long wait to Thanksgiving and a bit of a stressful last few months I CANNOT believe it is almost Christmas . Less than a we...

Berliners get extra ungemütlichkeit in winter as the days grow short and ice freezes in your/ Ian 's beard. Many try to flee the cit...

We first heard about the Tropical Island south of Berlin driving down to the Spreewald . Like an enormous metallic pimple, it stood ou...