Going grocery shopping in Germany has always been a stressful event for me. On my first visit to Kaufland, a few days after moving to Germany, I unintentionally made a cashier very angry because I didn’t weigh my bananas before checking out. Even after living in Germany for 13 months, it seemed like I always managed to do […]
Category: Life in Germany
How Germany is different than the USA:
Differences Between Germany and the USA.
Grocery Shopping in Germany (Compared to the USA).
Our Cost of Living in Germany Compared to the USA.
17 Ways the German Restaurant Experience Is Different Compared to the US.
12 Differences I Experienced While Going to the Movies in Germany.
An American Goes to the Doctor in Germany.
How Holiday Park (Germany) Is Different from American Theme Parks.
On life in Germany:
50 Things I Miss from Germany.
A Day in the Life: Expat in Small Town Germany
“Why Would You Wear Lederhosen?” and Other Things We Don’t Say in Germany
You might live in Germany if
Trying to Pay My Bill in Germany
American Food According to Germany
12 Facts about Christmas in Germany
15 Times Google Translate Failed Hilariously on the German Amazon Site
On moving to Germany:
Meeting Our New Home in Schweinfurt, Germany.
An Expectation of Silence
Our First Week as Expats in Germany
Our German Home
8 Things I Love About German Home Design
Coming Home to Schweinfurt
Things you might see in Germany:
Love Locks in Germany
Street Art / Graffiti in Germany.
40 Things I Saw on the Deutsche Bahn
Blog Roll:
Missing Germany: 50 Things I Miss the Most.
During my year in Germany I often pined for things from the USA. Now the reverse is true; I’ve been home for three months and I’m missing Germany fiercely. To make matters worse, I have no timeline for when I might get to return – just a long list of reasons why I’d like to. […]
Summarizing Life in Germany in 30 Tweets.
You can squeeze a surprising amount of information into 140 characters. I’ve used twitter for several years, but my use of it changed once I made an account for my blog. It became a quick, easy platform for sharing my life in Germany with other bloggers, expats, and curious travelers. I looked back over everything […]
Differences Between Germany and the USA.
Our impending departure (#3daystoUSA) is making me think about all the ways my life is about to change. In fact, my mental list of the differences between Germany and the USA started growing so long I decided to write them all out. I’m sharing this thought provoking list partially because I’m exhausted and sick from […]
One Year Without a Vehicle.
This is the second post in the blog series One Year Without. See all of the posts here. We gave up our habit of driving daily when we moved to Germany without a vehicle. For the past year we’ve either walked, used public transport, or used a rental car. In fact, we only spent 19 days […]
Expat Frustration (Also Known As: Germany Makes Things Hard).
With only 24 days to USA, we’ve been dealing with various problems that tend to accompany an international move. However, one situation has been particularly difficult. Let me start at the beginning. One year ago we were brand new expats, being picked up by our relocation agent to go get German drivers licenses just a few days […]
A Day in the Life: Expat in Small Town Germany.
“A day in the life” posts have become really popular on Imgur (an online image sharing community); people all over the world have been taking photos throughout a normal day of their life and sharing them. The Imgur blog said the following about this idea: As we go about our daily routines, we rarely stop to […]
Coming Home to Schweinfurt.
How long does it take for a new place to start feeling like home? Probably not long if you’ve only moved across town, but it took seven months for me after we moved across an ocean. I wasn’t sure that Schweinfurt would ever feel like home during the 13 months we planned to live here, […]
“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 […]
Trying to Pay My Bill in Germany.
Dealing with money is quite different in Germany, and trying to pay my bill in a restaurant is no exception. I have to access my money differently, I spend it differently, and I struggle to keep track of the cash flow. I’ve been able to use our US credit card in more places than expected, but frequently […]
