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First Bike Tour of the Season

Germany is great for biking: Even minor rivers usually have well developed bike trails running their length, often along with a railway line. So you can just...

Race Day - Frankfurt/Eschborn

The First of May (Labour Day and a official holiday in Germany) traditionally is Race Day in Frankfurt - i.e. Germany’s most famous bicnycle road race is tak...

Monopoly

This year with the boys I played my first game of monopoly since high school. The main surprise for me was how boring the game itself actually is - it really...

Sledding Rules

Just for the record: Chaotic behaviour on sledding hills apparently isn’t a phenomenon restricted to Germany.

City Rankings

Each year when I read about these rankings I feel like running around screaming “Stupid, stupid, STUPID”, so I guess I just have to get this one out of my sy...

Peter Bergman Does Man Bags Best

It is that time of every even year again (see here): The male citezenry of my lovely home town marches out to check the municipal border. It’s a good way to ...