Description: Life, liberty, and the pursuit of awesomeness.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of awesomeness.
What does 9 euros get you these days? Last summer marked the introduction of the 9-euro ticket in Germany, a government measure to counter skyrocketing cost-of-living issues stemming from the war in Ukraine. With unlimited monthly travel on all public transit and regional trains throughout the summer, the ticket was undoubtedly a success, with 52 million journeys on the rails and off the roads. In a bittersweet season, easy and cheap were my best friends getting me out of the house to places I might not hav
Asparagus is the claim to fame for Beelitz, southwest of Berlin past Potsdam . With all those lovely green and white shoots being consumed, I wonder how their sewers smell this time of year. I kid, I kid, it’s a popular escape for Berliners and Brandenburgers seeking its semi-rural feel. This bucolic setting made it an ideal site for the Lungheilstatt sanitarium complex, built in 1898. Later converted to a German military hospital and then taken over by Soviet forces after World War II, it has mostly lain a