Author Archives: Andreas Moser

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About Andreas Moser

I am a lawyer in Germany, with a focus on international family law, migration and citizenship law, as well as constitutional law. My other interests include long walks, train rides, hitchhiking, history, and writing stories.

Hey Elise, can you take out the trash?

Posted on 2016-08-24 by Andreas Moser

Every few days, my regular good-morning concert of yapping dogs, hammering neighbors, beeping cars and weeping babies is enriched by Beethoven’s Für Elise. First I thought that one of the neighbors has a monotone taste in music and is playing the song … Continue reading →

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Money in Politics

Posted on 2016-08-22 by Andreas Moser

In his autobiography My Early Life: A Roving Commission, Winston Churchill recounts his first attempt to run for a seat in the House of Commons, the democratic half of the British Parliament. Early in November [1898] I paid a visit … Continue reading →

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A walk around Isfahan

Posted on 2016-08-22 by Andreas Moser

I was in Iran for the first time in December 2008 and January 2009, one of my traditional Christmas/New-Year getaways, hoping to escape these awkward festivities. However, many people still wished me “merry Christmas” or “a happy new year”, with some Iranians … Continue reading →

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“You can park in the garden.”

Posted on 2016-08-20 by Andreas Moser

Photographed in Chisinau, Moldova.

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Emma & Timmy

Posted on 2016-08-19 by Andreas Moser

I heard that cat photos make blogs more popular. Luckily, my mother sent these photos of her two cats Emma (brown) and Timmy (grey).

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“Church was really boring today”

Posted on 2016-08-19 by Andreas Moser

Photographed outside of the cathedral in Puno, Peru.

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Where God takes Cash

Posted on 2016-08-18 by Andreas Moser

Hier könnt Ihr diesen Artikel auf Deutsch lesen. Whenever material things, money, worldliness, become the center of our lives, they take hold of us, they possess us; we lose our very identity as human beings. Pope Francis, 29 September 2013 … Continue reading →

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Indiana Jones is back

Posted on 2016-08-18 by Andreas Moser

He was spotted on the island of Taquile in Lake Titicaca in Peru.

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Film Review: James Bond “SPECTRE”

Posted on 2016-08-15 by Andreas Moser

This film review doesn’t require a spoiler warning because the latest James Bond film SPECTRE doesn’t have a discernible plot anyway. It is more of an unorganized sequence of badly written and halfheartedly acted scenes. Like a car-boot sale trying to get … Continue reading →

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Street Scenes in Quillacollo

Posted on 2016-08-15 by Andreas Moser

I always thought that the Feast of Corpus Christi is a somber affair. In Quillacollo in Bolivia there was indeed a short religious procession to the cathedral, with ice-cream and beer vendors already going about their business while the priest was … Continue reading →

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