When I got to the Siegburg train station this morning for the trip to Berlin, I thought it was last Saturday morning all over again, as Yogi Berra might have said. (more…)

I booked my train ticket for yesterday’s overnight trip to Biel, Switzerland on July 10th and thought I had planned pretty far in advance. All that for nothing because of a demonstration in Cologne! (more…)

This is getting to be a habit! (more…)

Bavarians must have a higher tolerance for beer. Or maybe they are getting a bad deal when they order a beer. (more…)

Once again a news item from Germany has caught the fancy of Church of God groups and their bloggers. What’s the real story on Germany’s new tax i.d. number? (more…)

As a result of an unusual development I was interviewed today as guest on a radio talk show of the German national shortwave station "Deutsche Welle". (more…)