Buzz off Base's new website is up. If you live in Germany, esp in the KMC area, you should check it out. I really wish I had known about this when I lived there, lots of info about restuarants, cities, festivals, businesses, etc ( Read more... )

As I was decorating my Christmas tree this year I found the really nice German Star ornament made from ribbon that someone gave me in college. I remember making these myself in German Class and they are pretty easy ( Read more... )

There's another Flicker blog about Berlin: http://blog.flickr.net/en/2009/11/04/experience-history-berlin-1961-1989/ It is about creation of a Flicker Group for "...photographic memories of a divided Berlin ( Read more... )

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So I went to Holland which was so beautiful and for most of the day it was warm and amazing. In hindsight, I think Pat would have actually enjoy it and he could have been my personal photographer and pillow. Its a long trip up to the Netherlands from Germany. The traffic in the Netherlands is awful, especially since that day was a flower parade and ( Read more... )

So we went this Saturday we went to Neunkirchen to the Hooters. (the first Hooters in Germany FYI) Good food, like being in the states except all the servers are bilingual. We considered wandering around the shopping center next door but someone was waiting for our parking spot. So we made it to the Hooters will little trouble but got had some ( Read more... )

Last weekend we went to grab some coffee and quickly browse the flea market on ROB to look for a vacuum, no luck. Then we headed to Neubruecke to take the train to Idar Oberstein which is one of my most favorite place in Germany. The ticket machine that takes cash was all broken so we had to use the newer machine that only takes credit cards - ( Read more... )

Links to sites for travel research while living in Germany ( Read more... )

We spent yesterday on post went to pick up a few things at the PX and then found a printer at the PXtra...its was the same price and brand as the one we were looking at earlier but this one is wireless and came with ink. But they were completely out of regular printer paper so we will have to wait to try it out until we can get some ( Read more... )

My husband thinks his coats are scrapbooks. Every coat he owns is full of napkins (both clean and used), ticket stubs, pens and various random articles. When I find these things he wont me clean out the pockets ( Read more... )