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Child soup and other German adventures
(16/10/13) My B&B in Mannheim was super-luxurious after the hostel grossness in Amsterdam, and was even relatively conveniently located. Mannheim is an industrial city in the south-western corner of Germany, and definitely not on the tourist trail. It’s actually the only place I’ve been in the country, despite best intentions of making it to several festivals […]
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Clean Hands
I am extremely in Germany right now, and I have so many questions. For example, what does ‘oder’ mean? Secondly, there is a gigantic Ronald McDonald plastic monstrosity sitting on the chair behind me which keeps creeping me out, yet people keep coming to have their photo taken with it. Why? Why?! I am too […]
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Douche Душ Dusche
Sometimes English is weird. There is, of course, the example of ‘pineapple’, which manages to be called ‘ananas’ in all the other languages: Etymoline.com informs me that the word ‘pineapple’ comes from ‘pine’ + ‘apple’ (really helpful there), which still makes about zero sense. I’ve just done a similar search for ‘shower’ (because isn’t etymology […]