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Making the actual decision to move abroad is one of the the hardest steps of the entire process. But it’s only when your plane has touched down in the new city you’re going to be calling home that the real adventure begins!…
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After almost two years of living in Germany, I’m beginning to notice a couple of changes in myself. That’s right, a few of my Australian habits are disappearing! Last week I had an article published on Matador Network that I…
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German is certainly not an easy language to master and no individual has documented the struggle more publicly than iconic American author, Mark Twain. In 1880 Twain published his infamous essay titled, ‘The Awful German Language’, a humorous exploration of the frustrations…
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I’ve been living in my current apartment, rented from Airbnb for 12 months now… and I have no plans to move. I know I’ve got a good thing going here and if things are good, why change them? Why I ended up…
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Last Monday morning I woke to discover that the grey, dreary Berlin I had known of late had unexpectedly transformed into a winter wonderland. Overnight, the heavens had opened and coated the city with a heavy blanket of snow that…
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There’s no denying that summer is Berlin’s most popular tourist season, as is the case across almost every major European city. With the arrival of the warm and sunny weather, however, so too do the relentless flood of tourists. While winter…
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Image source The Germans take their spa culture pretty seriously. In fact, Germany has one of the largest spa cultures in all of Europe, with over 900 spas registered across the country. Since Roman times, when the spa culture first developed, spas…
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No matter where you travel in the world, making the effort to learn some of the local lingo certainly goes a long way. In a world where English-speaking tourists all too commonly assume that everyone else on the planet can and…
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Lunch by the lakeside in sunny Vienenburg left us energised and eager to explore the pretty region we found ourselves in — the northern edge of the Harz mountains. We learnt from a local that a short 10-minute train journey would deliver us…
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