Greeks Don’t Work Enough
Talk about your vacation nation. No, not Greece. Germany. This isn’t really news, of course. “Germans may accuse spendthrift euro zone southerners of too much play and not enough work, but they enjoy...
View ArticleSinking Ships Can’t Stop Them
Ethiopian gunmen can’t stop them. Germans just can’t stop going on vacation. It’s what they do. And that’s why they win the Reiseweltmeisterpreis (World Champion Travellers Award) every year. It’s not...
View ArticleThose Airbus A380s Look So Freakin’ Cool
Especially when they’re Boeing 747-8-Jumbos. Mit einer Rumpflänge von 76,3 Metern übertrifft die 747-8 als jetzt längster Passagierjet den Airbus A340-600 um knapp einen Meter und den Airbus A380 um...
View ArticleWhat’s One More Delay For The BBA?
The Berlin Brandenburg Airport, I mean. Or isn’t it the Berlin Brandenburg Willy Brandt Airport? Or does it stand for But Berlin Went Broke Already? Better not Bother With Booking Ahead? Berlin Mayor...
View ArticleA Third Of The World Wants To Work In Germany?
That’s strange because 56 percent of Germans would prefer to work abroad (and 35 percent of those would like to work in the United States). Germany is the number one non-English speaking destination...
View ArticleThe End Of An Aura
It’s amazing these sleeper trains have lasted as long as they have, if you stop and think about it. Saturday marked the end of the line for this Paris-Berlin sleeper, at any rate. Slow food might be...
View ArticleMass Numbers Of Germans Flee Country
And then return again. Several times a year even. They call it Tourismus (tourism). That’s right, when not moaning about capitalism and democracy itself, Germans like to spend their ample free time...
View Article501 German Oddities For HOW Much?
For only 99 cents? Why, that’s… 5.060606060606061 oddities per cent! A pretty high percentage of oddities there, I’d say. For the penny, I mean. And worth every penny, too. Just ask Marina. If you...
View ArticleWould Kilgore Trout Tell A Lie?
It’s special ebook offer time again already, folks. Deal with it. Dumb Deutsch: Absurd German Language Errors (auch für deutsche Leser geeignet) Also at iTunes, Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, etc. For...
View ArticleMy German Is More Dumber Than Your German Is
It’s 99 cent blowout ebook sale time again! Like how outrageous is that? Dumb Deutsch: Absurd German Language Errors (auch für deutsche Leser geeignet) Also available at iTunes, Smashwords, Barnes...
View ArticleBerlin Doesn’t Need A New Airport After All
You know, the new one that still hasn’t opened yet and perhaps never will? No. Berlin is already number one when it comes to airports. So let’s move on already, people. 1. Berlin Schönefeld Airport...
View ArticleWe’re All Going To Die!
So let’s go on a nice vacation first. It looks like Coronavirus is going to take a little longer than expected to wipe out the German race so Germans aren’t wasting any time getting their priorities...
View ArticleHow To Avoid Getting Scolded By A German?
That’s easy. Practice very aggressive social distancing. You know. Like, move to France? Have you ever walked on the bicycle lane? Put a refundable bottle into a regular bin? Asked a bus driver how...
View ArticleIs This Your Bag, Ma’am?
Your bag of bones, I mean? Armenian woman stopped at Munich airport in Germany after husband’s bones found in bag – A woman traveling from Greece said she wanted to return her husband’s remains to his...
View ArticleGermany Extends Coronavirus Red Zone List To Include Every Place That Isn’t...
In another breathtaking German Alleingang that Germany promised never, ever to do again under any circumstances we promise this time really, Germany has now declared the rest of Planet Earth a...
View ArticleGerman Of The Day: Reisewarnung
That means travel warning. In this case for The Banana Republic of America itself! Germany issues travel warning for Washington after attack on Capitol – Germans have been told to avoid central...
View ArticleAs American As Apple Pie
That good old Greyhound Bus. Or at least it used to be. Now it’s as American as FlixBus. FlixMobility, the $3 billion-German transportation startup that has doubled down on long distance buses and...
View ArticleGerman Of The Day: Billig Will Ich
That means “cheap is what I want.*” Budget startup Norse Atlantic Airways adds 2 US routes to Berlin – A week before its eagerly-anticipated launch, Norse Atlantic Airways is announcing a new...
View ArticleUnsustainable
In Germany, of all places. The truth is sticking up its pointy little head again. No free lunch for you! No el cheapo train ticket either. ‘All prices will have to be increased’: Germany’s €49 ticket...
View ArticleI don’t always stop and look at trains…
Oh wait, yes I do. The first night train between Berlin and Paris will depart on Monday evening after a nine-year hiatus, plugging a significant gap in Europe’s increasingly comprehensive overnight...
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