Continue Reading Fading into the Background This morning I saw a woman in her 70s with flowers face painted on her face. I overheard that she had a…
Continue Reading The REINS Act Hm, for some reason this post disappeared. Even thought it went out on the automatic email and presumably into your inboxes. Sorry…
Continue Reading Heinrich Heine Back home. Yes, it is home, it feels that way. Marveling at the pink-hat masses who stood in the way of alternative facts yesterday….
Continue Reading What a day A day where I was floored by a documentary exhibit on the judicial fates of Nazi perpetrators, prepared by folks from the commemorative…
Continue Reading Hafenliebe Hamburg’s port was founded in 1189 by Friedrich I and has been central to Europe’s commerce ever since. It is the largest…
Continue Reading Being Jewish in Germany I’ve been on the road so much that regular blogging has fallen behind. Part of that was access to the net, but…
Continue Reading Update on Refugees In 2015 close to 1.000.000 asylum seekers arrived in Germany. Those numbers decreased to 280.000 in 2016. This decrease was caused by the closing…
Continue Reading Elphi Alfie? Why is everyone talking about Alfie, I wondered. It turns out I misheard. The topic of the day is Elphi, short…
Continue Reading Going Underground The river Elbe separates the Hamburg harbor and industrial sites from the city proper of Hamburg. Every day 10.000s of workers had…
Continue Reading Bremen Between the 14th and the 17th century European merchant guilds formed a loose confederation to protect and enhance their commercial interest -…
