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Seven Stops on the Brothers Grimm Path
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This year marks the 200 th anniversary of the publishing of Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children’s and Household Tales) by brothers Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm. To celebrate this prodigious year, the town of Marburg has raised a series of tributes dedicated to... Read more
German Trains: Punctuality and Similarity
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Surprisingly Frankfurt airport was much easier to navigate than I had anticipated. Because it is one of the largest airports in Europe, I was expecting massive throngs of people, crowds around never-ending baggage carousels, and pickpockets waiting around... Read more
Lost in Köln (Cologne): Kölner Dom
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Although it would have been nice to conduct research in a more central part of Germany, I am instead based in Aachen, North-Rhine-Westphalia (a German state). While North-Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) is the largest state in Germany, it does not contain such... Read more
Greetings from Munich: Death Sunday
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So silent we could hear the ringing in our ears, Katja and I wandered the empty streets in bewilderment. There are 365 days in a year, but somehow we managed to arrive on Totensonntag— Death Sunday—November 19 th , 2011. This sacred Christian... Read more
Mitfahrgelegenheit. What?!
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Remember when your parents told you not to talk to people you don't know? I wonder if that applies to the time I carpooled with strangers while abroad. Mitfahrgelegenheit (carpooling in German) is one of the few instances when you have a reason to talk to... Read more

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