April 2010

Deceleration

19 April 2010

Like many others, we to have a story of being disrupted by the closure of European airspace due to volcanic ash. Our story is however pretty boring. “We were going to fly to Orlando for a week on business, but we couldn’t fly so we stayed home instead.” So instead of attending the McDonald’s Worldwide [...]

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Old School

15 April 2010

Last year I mentioned the upcoming choice of a secondary school for our son after the fourth grade… well, now the fourth grade is nearly over, and the decision has been made. It was a choice that 3 months ago we hadn’t even considered. Our state of Lower Saxony still splits into the 3 traditional [...]

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Certified Family-Friendly Employer

11 April 2010

We’re very happy and proud that our restaurant in Dibbersen is a charter recipient of the FaMi Seal, recognition of a family-friendly employer. We’ve already placed the seal prominently on our restaurant website. The FaMi Seal is a new initiative in northeastern Lower Saxony by the DGB (German Federation of Trade Unions), the regional Handelskammer [...]

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Anything But Sports

10 April 2010

At first it wasn’t easy following baseball from Europe. I followed the 1991 World Series (the one where the Twins beat the Braves and Kirby Puckett drove the bus) by reading box scores on CompuServe and catching glances a day later at the international edition USA Today on the newsstand at the Wandsbek Markt U-Bahn [...]

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