After well over a year-long absence on my part, Tabitha has once again inspired me to begin writing-- with one of those month-long challenges, no less!
This month, as part of the October 31-day challenge, I'm going to delve into 31 daily posts on a specific theme/topic. My chosen topic? The lovely country of Germany!
Why Germany? Because it's one of my favorite places to live and travel. I was actually born in Germany (my parents were students at universities there), and came to the US when I was 4 years old. After graduating from college, I was commissioned into the US Army and spent the next 4 years stationed in Germany. After that, I only had a couple of subsequent visits -- a week with my grad school advisor, collaborating with his colleagues in Berlin, and a week traveling with my boys this past summer, doing a whirlwind sightseeing tour as well as visiting old friends.
For the next 31 days, I'm hoping to write more about the country I would call my second home if I were to uproot from sunny Santa Barbara. Things I enjoy about it, things I don't like about it, anecdotes about my own time there-- as a child, as a young adult, and as a wife and mother, photo dumps, anything that catches my fancy!
I'll also be using this post as a landing page to collect the entire series' worth. So check back and check often! :-)
Day 1: this post. Haha! ;-)
Day 2: German Food: Breakfast!
Day 3: Drivers: the Good and the Bad
Day 4: Public Transportation
Day 5: Historic Churches and Cathedrals
Day 6: Paying for Restroom Usage
Day 7: The German Language
Day 8: German Food: the good, the fried and the fatty
Day 9: Nostalgia: Army Days, Then and Now
Day 10: Nostalgia 2: Living in Mannheim
Day 11: German beds and bedding
Day 12: Eco-friendly Germany
Day 13: Muenster: Revisiting my old childhood home
Day 14: German Food: Snacks and Desserts
Day 15: Tuition-Free Education
Day 16: Berlin in Pictures
Day 17: Militaries all over the world
Day 18: German Houses
Day 19: Rothenburg's Medieval Crime Museum
Day 20: German Drinks: bring on the fizz!
Day 21: Dresden in Pictures
Day 22: German Food: Traditional Holiday Treats
Day 23: Historic German Castles
Day 24: A Mobile Shop on Every Corner
Day 25: The German language, in full force and full hilarity!
Day 26: Sit to Pee: Standing is verboten!
Day 27: Different Hotels in Germany, and all family-friendly!
Day 28: Oh, wie schön ist Panama, aka one of my favorite childhood books!
Yay!! So glad you're along for this crazy ride. :-P
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to reading your posts especially because we are writing about countries! I am writing about South Africa www.livinginafrica.net
ReplyDeleteFascinating! I was thinking that the 31 Dayers website should have a separate category for Travel/Destinations, since there seem to be so many of us blogging about various places around the globe this month! :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks! :-) A lot of my observations are coming from the point of view of contrasting it to the US, and I have a feeling that at the end of this series, I'll want to go back to Germany again! :-)
ReplyDeleteI was born in Muenster, then later stationed in Mannheim. While I was in Mannheim, I traveled all around and to neighboring countries, but more recently, this past August, I went there with my husband and son, and we basically city-hopped from Mannheim to Heidelberg to Rothenburg to Nuremberg to Dresden to Berlin, and finally, to Muenster to visit old family friends and introduce them to hubby & son. What a whirlwind! We hope to make it back again someday!