Since September 2003, the main task I'm paid for - I hesitate to call it a job, because it's too much fun for that - has been teaching Slovak and German adults to speak English in business situations. And I love it. Not only do I learn a whole lot - much of which makes it way into this blog in one …
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Travel report: Hitting Hamburg
Aussie readers might remember a verse from a Paul Kelly song: I headed north until I got to Hamburg A chilly city suits a troubled soul And on the Reeperbahn I paid a woman far too much To kick me out before I’d even reached my goal My first day in Hamburg was surprisingly sunny and non-chilly …
Beside the Baltic seaside
My lovely weekend hosts, Ron, Alli and 10-month-old Chiara, who live in Bordesholm, near Kiel, understood well what a fellow Aussie living in a landlocked part of Germany needed: a trip to the beach. After a drive through the farmlands of Schleswig-Holstein surrounding Kiel, we spent an afternoon …