You only see the “Y” in the road, not the end of it.
The S.O. has had to work all this weekend, and I have been on call for my job. Basically its a payment up front for the both of us-for we will be in Austria for her birthday at the end of the month....
View ArticleThe Green Life
The S.O. works for a German company. She, in the last year, was moved up to a position where she works enough hours to have to pay German taxes-and to receive German benefits, particularly German...
View ArticleOut and about.
The weather in Germany these past two days has been glorious, in sharp contrast to the misery that is going on across the Atlantic in the land of my birth. I’ve got plenty to say on the selfishness...
View ArticleRamsau in Berchtesgarden
There is a LOT to talk about, most particularly Mr. Kelly’s abomination of a press conference on Thursday. He should have stayed away from the microphone and heeded some good advice about his boss....
View ArticleCorsica
During the last week of August and over the holiday in September, the S.O. and I traveled to the island of Corsica, or Haute Corse, as the French refer to it. We had wanted to go someplace different...
View ArticleTill the cows come home…
To Mayrhofen, Austria that is. The S.O. and I are probably long past any point in life where we could even hope to do something reckless exciting like run with the bulls at Pamplona. So this past...
View ArticleThe Alps are always beautiful!
Was out of pocket this weekend on a skiing trip. The town of Garmish Partenkirchen is always beautiful with its mountain backdrop of the Austrian Alps. This was a fun trip although it seems my skiing...
View ArticleThey were robbed.
One of the remarkable things of my 8 years here in Europe is how I have become enthralled in the competitions that Americans don’t get to see. For example in 2012, the S.O. and I got deeply into the...
View ArticleShort-sighted folks
I could not help observing during the visit of the Orange Monster to the mother country, how a certain segment of the American population is so blind to the realities of the world that was created in...
View ArticleMusical interludes
Spring finally came to the icebox that has been southern Germany for the past 5 months. To add insult to injury with that development, both the S.O. and I have had to work a lot these last couple of...
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