well hey, a blogpost— Went to see a Shakespeare play this weekend with some friends—Romeo und Julia. Besides briefly running into some sort of outdoor Shakespeare production at Görlitzer Park last summer, I haven’t seen any theater production in years. And though this one was nice and all…it was in German. Shakespeare in German seemed …

In my continued quest to find inspiration, yesterday I visited the Hamburger Bahnhof museum. The museum (in an old train station) exhibits mostly contemporary art but I hadn’t yet visited despite living in Berlin for who knows how long…. I was most interested in the temporary exhibit featuring work by the Japanese composer & visual …

When I visited Vienna last summer, besides almost immediately noticing how pretty and “put-together” the city appeared, I quickly became fascinated with all the posters advertising festivals, stores, exhibits and other miscellany around town. In a city renowned for its art, design & creative culture, the posters stood out quite a bit. One in particular …

Last weekend I had the chance to escape Berlin and visit Brighton for the first time. The last time I was in England was already over 5 years ago, so I was long overdue for a visit. And even though I’d spent 5 months living in London, I never visited Brighton—not to mention any other …

If you know me you’ve probably heard me say the words “love” and “London” in the same sentence at some point in time. I’ve always loved London and though I’ve only been to the city twice, it’s a place that’s almost always on my mind. But it’s been five years since I’ve last visited London. …

The Ta Prohm temple at Angkor Wat (Siem Reap, Cambodia) is most impressive for the lack of tourism development. The trees are overgrown, the rocks piled up.

A few weeks back I found myself briefly homeless. If you’re an expat, especially in Berlin, you’re probably familiar with short-term holiday apartment rentals. When I came to Berlin over the summer, I never expected to actually stay so long, but here I still am. And much of that is thanks to short-term apartments. Which, …

Since living in Germany I’ve learned more than a handful of new German words. I arrived knowing “gesundheit” and “kindergarten” but something else I’ve added to my lexicon: marzipan. Marzipan isn’t completely a foreign thing to Americans, but it’s not something I was very familiar with until I visited Lübeck, Germany back in December. The …

I’ve been blogging for over two years now, and with my recent site redesign (are you reading this via RSS? if so, click through and check out my MASSIVE SITE REDESIGN), I’ve decided to take this travel blogging thing a bit more seriously. I mean, I’ve taken it seriously to begin with. I love sharing …

Sachsenhausen concentration camp memorial Just outside Berlin is the Sachsenhausen concentration camp memorial. Under Nazi Germany, the concentration camp was used first as a work camp for political prisoners until eventually it was expanded and enlarged to also include facilities for mass murder. After WWII, Sachsenhausen was briefly used by the Soviets to house Nazi …