12 Facts about Christmas in Germany.

I shared one fact about Christmas in Germany on my Facebook page for each of the 12 Days of Christmas.  Here you can see the compiled list. Day 1/12 In Germany, especially in the Bavarian region, St. Nicholas Day (the 6th of December) is celebrated with a visit from St Nick.  Children will put their clean shoes out the night before so that old St. Nick can fill them with goodies like gingerbread (lebkuchen) and chocolate.  According to the story, […]

An American Goes to the Doctor in Germany.

An American Goes to the Doctor in Germany.

I’ve had excruciating back pain for over a year now that manifests whenever I sit or stand for more than 30 minutes.  It’s a pinpoint type of pain that radiates from my eighth vertebrae.  I do okay if I’m walking quickly or lying down but that’s about it.  As you can imagine, it puts quite a damper on our travels around Germany.  We saw several doctors and I had so many tests done in America it would make your head […]

An Expectation of Silence.

It’s now only 12 days until we leave for Germany, and I can’t stop imagining what living there is going to be like.  Of all the differences that I noticed on our short visit there, the one I am most concerned about is the silence.  Immediately after we landed in Frankfurt we departed the plane onto a bus and experienced the eerie quiet.  No one was talking loudly and excitedly to each other or on their phones, no children were […]