26 November 2009
We’ve never gotten in the habit of celebrating American Thanksgiving here in Germany, but as I mentioned on Twitter today, by coincidence we are going out for a traditional meal this Thanksgiving evening. The local Wirtschaftsrunde (chamber of commerce, sort of) is holding their annual Grünkohl dinner. I’ve never had it, and I suspect that [...]
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17 November 2009
Since we’re being nostalgic this month, with the fall of the Berlin Wall and all that, how about we go even further back, to November 1979. The Iran hostage crisis had just begun on November 4, but I can’t recall any of the other events. A month later, the Who Concert tragedy and the Soviet [...]
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