Been at the bottom of the pit recently. Slowly surfacing. Particularly as I've found my copy of 101 German Verbs, which was hiding under a TV guide dating from the second of January. January! That should show you how often we clean in this house. Well, at least I can swot up on verbs in this grammatical beast of a language. What you can do with it ( Read more... )

I discovered where my grandfather was born on Tuesday. ( The Most Important Question in the World )

Hamburg is a lovely city. I mean, on the outside it's German Liverpool (which is actually not a bad place at all!), but on the inside it's another incredibly interesting city. Maybe I'm just biased: I've only met one German city I didn't like - Offenbach, which I visited solely because of the composer Jacques Offenbach. It wasn't worth it. It's a ( Read more... )