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Tag Archives: Amberg
My Drug Dealer from Cuba
Zur deutschen Fassung. For a short break from the library, I went to the park in Amberg, my hometown in Germany. It doesn’t matter how highly motivated you are studying, sometimes you need a break. And thus, I am sitting … Continue reading
Hitchhiking against the Skeptics
“Nobody will give you a ride during a pandemic”, people said. Well, I had to find out for myself. Continue reading
Posted in Austria, Germany, Travel
Tagged Amberg, Ammerthal, hitchhiking, Linz, Mauthausen, Passau, Vienna
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But what about the Comet?
A flashback into the good old times… Continue reading
In the Foreign Legion
Diesen spannenden Insider-Bericht gibt es auch auf Deutsch. A few years ago, the desire for education reared its nosy head again, remembered the high school from which I had graduated decades before, and was in deep and mournful regret that … Continue reading
Two Night Trains to the East
Zur deutschen Fassung dieses Artikels. I am calling them night trains on purpose, not sleeper trains, because when I booked the tickets, I couldn’t discern if there would be a bed, maybe even a shower, or with how many people … Continue reading
Don’t fly away now!
To the people in that plane: You picked the wrong time to fly away. It’s so beautiful here in autumn. That’s why I will spend two weeks in Germany before flying to Gran Canaria and then taking the boat to … Continue reading
Mandela deserves better
The mail delivery centres where you have to pick up the parcels that are too big to be squeezed through the letter slot, are rarely housed in beautiful buildings or located in enticing parts of the city. My local Royal … Continue reading
Posted in Germany, London, Politics, Travel, UK
Tagged Amberg, Invictus, Madiba, Mandela, Mandela Way, Nürnberg, Nelson Mandela, Nelson-Mandela-Platz, Nuremberg, Panzer, parcel, post, Royal Mail, South Africa, T-34, tank, train station
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