Street Criminal

Mann received a lovely letter from Berlin Police for driving more than 30 km/hr. And for this, Mann needs to pay 50€ or about 3000 pesos. Ouch! Mann was not happy of course and he was complaining about this daylight robbery. But what can he do? There is no denying that that was him in…

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School Circa 1900

Grade school 1 to 4 in Sachsen has a subject called Sachunterricht. This covers a mixture of science, social, economic and historical topics of our region. For this month, kids are currently learning what school was like in the old days so they have been visiting museums as well as learning how to read and…

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Bathroom Charge

Not all bathrooms in Europe are created equal. Some charges 1 euro (60 pesos) but still consumable and some are not. My parents however are so cheap. They will eat a lot of breakfast, skip lunch and hold the call of nature if it cost some euro. And yet they are spending a lot of…

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Grannies on Honeymoon

We dropped my parents at Dresden Airport for their flight to Madrid. Left them at Security Check Control but after that they went to Passport Control and got lost trying to find Gate 10 until the police came, checked their passport and visa, interrogated them on their destination, cancelled the exit stamp, guided them back…

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