• Beyond Words

    My last few days in Germany were spent ‘splurging’ a bit. On Thursday we visited two cities; Goslar and WolfensbĂĽttel. The weather was absolutely perfect at 68 degrees and sunny with a warm, gentle wind.     Everyone always talks about how green Ireland is (even I did), but Germany has the same radiance that causes…

  • Der Doppelgänger

    Way back in 2013, when I was traveling Europe for the first time, a German student from Nienburg  had come to my University to study abroad for a semester. A week or two after the semester started and I was still in Ireland, but had received numerous messages that looked like this:    My German…