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Pictures: Terrorizing my German Wife with Instagram
I recently discovered an iPhone application called Instagram. It allows me to take pictures as I normally would, but I can feed them through all kinds of nifty filters and photo settings, then share...
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Pictures: Instagram, Dead Fish and my German Wife
As you know, I recently discovered Instagram; an iPhone app which allows talentless hacks like me to apply trendy filters to any photograph and create superficially engaging imagery. I’ve been using...
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Pictures: Our Trip to Berlin, Germany, in the Summer of 2011
The Wife and I visited Berlin last summer and had an awesome time. I’m finally getting around to posting the pictures, so we thought we’d share them with you instead of doing a regular old post this...
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Pictures: Our Stay in Marburg, Germany, During the Summer of 2011
The Wife and I stayed in Marburg, Germany, last summer before stopping in Einbeck on our way to Berlin. Marburg was by far my favorite town — with its fairytale scenery and small, college town charm —...
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Pictures: Our Visit to Einbeck, Germany, in the Summer of 2011
As you are probably aware, The Wife and I visited Germany last summer. One of the places we stayed was Einbeck; A sleepy little borough right smack in the middle of the country. Einbeck is famous for...
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Pictures: My Lufthansa Flight from Portland, Oregon, to Hannover, Germany
On Sunday, September 2nd, 2012, I flew with Lufthansa Airlines from Portland, Oregon, to Hannover, Germany. This was a fortuitous date, apparently, because employees of Lufthansa went on strike right...
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Pictures: A Walking Tour of Hannover, Germany, on the Red Thread, Part I
On September 8th, 2012, just 6 days after my arrival in Germany, The Wife and I began the first part of our ongoing walking tours of Hannover. We followed “The Red Thread,” which totally sounds like a...
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Pictures: Oktoberfest 2012 – Hannover, Germany
In Hannover, Oktoberfest takes place at the Schützenplatz, which is an open area directly across from the AWD Arena (home of the Hannover 96 soccer team, and yeah, you heard me right, I just called it...
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Pictures: Our Looney Tunes Trip to Berlin – January, 2013
The Wife and I were recently visited by one of our very close friends from Portland, Oregon. We shall call him, “Looney Tunes.” Looney Tunes spent New Year’s with us in Hannover, and then on January...
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Pictures: Expat Couple Visits St. Pauli’s Red Light District in Hamburg, Germany
On March 23rd, 2013, The Wife and I took a day trip to Hamburg. We rode the Metronome (or “slow train,” as we affectionately refer to it) north for about one hour, changed lines in Uelzen, then rode...
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German-American Couple Takes the Steinhuder Meer Bike Tour (And I Have an...
On a lovely Saturday in August, The Wife and I rode our bikes to the Hannover Hauptbahnhof, got on the S-Bahn and rode that sumbitch out to Wunstorf Station. There, we got back on our bikes and took a...
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German-American Couple Returns to Portland, Oregon, for the 2013 Holiday Season
The Wife and I flew back to the United States for the holidays this year. We spent Christmas in Portland, Oregon, and New Year’s in Cannon Beach. You know what was weird about being back home? The fact...
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German-American Couple Visits the Spanish Island of Mallorca
In April of 2014, my German wife and I flew to Mallorca. Mallorca, (or Majorca) is an island off the southeastern coast of Spain, known condescendingly as “Malla.” It is a warm, beautiful and...
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German-American Couple Visits the North Sea, Denmark and a Whole Hell of a...
In mid-August, my German wife and I boarded a train which took us from Hannover to the North Sea of Germany. We met my wife’s family in Husum and stayed with them on the Nordstrand peninsula — in the...
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German-American Couple Falls in Love with the City of Bremen, Germany
Remember that pointy bra Madonna used to wear? At the beginning of November, my wife and I took the train from Hannover to Bremen, Germany. It was just a day trip, and I honestly wasn’t expecting much....
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Visiting Portland, Oregon: An American Expat and His German Wife Return to...
My wife is a smokin’ hot, full-blooded German woman with a killer smile and a wildly unpredictable sense of humor. I am an American expat built from the lesser parts of cyborg nerds and dragon jockeys....
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German-American Couple Visits the North Sea, Denmark and a Whole Hell of a...
“Stop. Stop. Stop.” In mid-August, my German wife and I boarded a train which took us from Hannover to the North Sea of Germany. We met my wife’s family in Husum and stayed with them on the Nordstrand...
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Visiting Konya: Pictures and Videos from Our Trip to Turkey
As you may have read from our last post, my German wife and I recently enjoyed an epic trip to Konya, Turkey, and we had a blast. This post, however, contains the pictures we took, plus a video at the...
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Best WhatsApp Messages: The Top 10 Funniest Messages Between an American...
You’ve probably already heard of WhatsApp Messenger — the free instant messenger app for smart phones — but you may not fully appreciate it for the worldwide savior of long distance relationships it...
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The Top 10 Funniest (and Most Bizarre) Google Search Engine Terms Used to...
Until recently, I assumed people came to our blog for a quick laugh. Maybe to read one of my wife’s Denglish quotes, or perhaps to read about the culture shock I’ve experienced as an American expat in...
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