Not everybody is as excited about the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest as we are in my house. Do not mistake this competition for a ‘song contest’, because it isn’t. The truth is that the Eurovision is a thinly-veiled politically motivated popularity contest – in fact, you will pick up more about European history and geography in those two…
This week’s task has been to visit the German embassy in order to get a new passport. And going to the embassy fills me with equal amounts of anticipation and dread. The dread is easily explained by the number of forms I have to fill in, the need for documents I mislaid but now need to…
Advent calendars have been part of the German Christmas tradition for over a century: by opening a little door, one for each day, children would be able to gage the amount of time they had to wait until Christmas Eve and their presents. In recent years, they have made an appearance in Britain, too, and you…
The fourth Sunday before Christmas marks the beginning of the German Christmas time: on that day, the first of four candles are lit on the advent wreath, followed by another one on each of the Sundays right up until Christmas Eve. We do like our advent period: long gone are the days of fasting –…
I know I should be getting excited for Christmas and all that, especially with the beginning of Advent this Sunday. In Germany, the four weeks leading up to Christmas are filled with traditional baking and little celebrations, all lined up to brighten up those short and dark December days. Once Christmas is over and the…
St Martin’s, or Martinmas, is particularly popular with German children: in kindergardens, infant schools and at home we make paper lanterns to use for the processions that take place on the evening of November 11. This is followed by a family dinner revolving around a roast goose, which is the point where adults start enjoying it, too. Although I…
Can you think of any symbol of man’s arrogance more potent than the Titanic? The sheer scale of it, as well as the decision not to clutter its look with too many lifeboats (or, rather, sufficient lifeboats) because, after all, the ship was unsinkable, all these factors explain our ongoing fascination with the ship. What is less known,…
Have you got a particular place you always think of when talking about food? A favourite restaurant, a particular kitchen, or a shop you went to as a child? For me, when talking about food shopping, I always think of St George’s Market in Belfast, which takes place in an old Victorian covered market on Fridays and…
I hadn’t come across this before Dana (of I’ve Got Cake fame) nominated me for it: the My Writing Process Tour is not so much an award as a nosey glance over your shoulder (isn’t it really, Dana?!), which makes it even more appealing to take part in, in order to nominate those bloggers you’d most like…
Today we went to visit our spiritual home, Ham near Richmond, the heart of the German community in London. Many parts of London are colonised by particular ethnic groups, who create their little bubbles of ‘Heimat‘ in the capital. Brick Lane’s Bangladeshi culture has been immortalised by Monica Ali’s novel, but other cultures have put their…
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