We were walking the streets of Berlin, surrounded by history and beauty, and yet I was looking for trash cans (and bears). Thankfully they aren’t all that hard to find given their bright orange color. I thought they were so entertaining that I started taking photos of them about halfway through our weekend there. Why should you love Berlin’s trash cans, too? Because they represent Berlin well. This one is fitting because there are 149 embassies in Berlin (not counting […]
Category: Funny
“Why Would You Wear Lederhosen?” and Other Things We Don’t Say in Germany.
There’s no denying it; living in Germany has been hard. Unbelievably hard at times. But it comes with so many rewards that we don’t (or at least we try not to) spend too much time complaining about it. But sometimes homesickness will sneak up behind us and slap us in the face, and that can be very startling. This happened recently when Mr. Meena turned to me on a Sunday afternoon and said, “Let’s go to Wal-Mart.” I started bawling. […]
15 Times Google Translate Failed Hilariously on the German Amazon Site.
We started purchasing products from Amazon.de pretty much immediately after we moved here. Amazon was all we knew – we had used the US site faithfully for several years before we moved and it was our go-to for just about everything. We’ve since learned how to shop in Schweinfurt and and use online sites other than Amazon, but there are times when it’s still our best option. Thankfully they have an English version so we can search for items and […]