myGermany

Ever so often I look under the hood of this site, you know, to check the stats, make sure everything is running well, and so on.
I have a nifty little program in the back-end which shows me where people are coming from when they end up here. And it seems that in the past few [...]

Each year thousands of German first grade students get their first school bag  – Schulranzen, the bag that they will be using for the first 4 years of school. The bags themselves each cost upwards of €100 and are mandatory for children in elementary school.
For years I’ve seen kids running around with these bags and [...]

Three years ago this month, I finally scrapped enough enough money, technical know-how and courage to call a web-site and audio podcast into life.In celebration of our 3rd birthday, I intend to post a lot more content to the blog this month, have some more videos and audio podcasts and to offer a special prize to a listener or reader of myGermany (more on that later).

Okay, I know this seems like a funny topic for an episode, but you would not believe how many of our visitors to Germany comment on how odd German windows are…either that or they have problems figuring out how to work them. It’s wither that or they’ve somehow gotten the window off all hinges but [...]