- Aug 14, 2022
- 2 min
400 years of laughter 笑い
2022 年 8 月 14日 From the first moment I flicked open the news this morning I was aready regretting it. An arrogant authoritarian state...
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- Aug 6, 2022
- 5 min
On the Beach ビーチで
2022年8月6日 "....and whilst you are changing the strings, the F# on the A string doesn't quite sound right -can you fix that?...." No...
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- Jul 30, 2022
- 3 min
The View From A Tower 塔からの眺め Tō kara no nagame
2022年7月30日 Let's check if the Goetheturm (look-out tower) in Sachsenhausen is fully open. You google it and it says yes, it is. So when I...
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- Jul 23, 2022
- 5 min
So, wo ist Franken? (So, where is Franconia?) じゃあ, フランケンはどこですか
2022年7月22日 The answer is difficult, because it probably depends on who you talk to. It's a region of south Germany which today has...
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- Jul 15, 2022
- 3 min
Strange Party 珍しい パーティー
2022年7月16日 First there was a house...最初に家がありました Then there was a ghost house....それから幽霊屋敷がありました Then there was half a...
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- Jul 9, 2022
- 5 min
Hell Courtesan 地獄 の使者
2022年7月9日 Good Morning (Good Evening) おはよう（こんばんは) 😉 Tuesday : Dietzenbach. I was regretting arriving in shorts, T-Shirt and sandals....
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- Jun 30, 2022
- 6 min
Close Harmony 🎵 緊密な調和 Kinmitsuna chōwa
Welcome back to my weekly blog. Welcome back to reporting from a hot Hessen summer... ようこそ! As I wrote last week, the recent heatwave...
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- Jun 23, 2022
- 4 min
Heat 暑さ💦
It was Ema ちゃんの誕生日, It was 6-yr.old Ema's birthday party, and I had been invited. Now you don't just not turn up to a little girl's...
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- Jun 16, 2022
- 4 min
June in Germany 六月のドイツ”
2022年6月16日 This is serious. There is no coffee coming out of the espresso machine. And it is Monday morning. Hello brain! What about...
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- Jun 10, 2022
- 7 min
They Say Nothing Stays The Same "Aru sendo no hanashi"
2022年6月10日 No it doesn't - especially in London. When I was there last week I noticed things - card payments are more common than in...
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- Jun 5, 2022
- 5 min
The Sun, that rises in the East 東に昇る太陽
2022年6月5 .....also rises over London. Sailing セーリング I am sitting on a bench next to the tiller as Rachel steers her yacht out into the...
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- Jun 2, 2022
- 3 min
An unusual woman 珍しい女の人
2022年5月29日 Four years ago, in May 2018, I was in the city of Matsumoto, which is in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan. I had borrowed a...
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- May 29, 2022
- 6 min
Mendelssohn, Isolation and the Home Country メンデルスゾーン,鎖国と母国
2022年5月29日 When I was a child,子供の時, one of the highlights of the school choir year was to sing in a big concert. To us they were huge...
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- May 13, 2022
- 4 min
Have You Ever Rung Someone when....聞こえる?
2022年5月13日 "oh hello!"..................(In your ears there is a crash 💥 which sounds like a knight in armour has just fallen into the...
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- May 5, 2022
- 4 min
Civilization (Part 3) 文明ー第3章
It's been 3 posts in rapid succession 🏁🏃♂️ つぎつぎと 投稿 ........... 2022年5月5日🎏 "Fields of Barley" Mr. Sting?..........I suppose "tulips"...
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- May 3, 2022
- 3 min
Civilization (Part 2) 文明ー第２章
2022年5月3日 Well, here she is: The Girl with the Pearl Earring. Of course she doesn't get quite so many people looking at her as the girl...
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- Apr 30, 2022
- 5 min
Civilization (Part 1) 文明ー第１章
2022年4月30日 Sometimes learning a foreign language can pose some BIG questions. My innocent textbook (with a view to jogging my brain for...
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- Apr 19, 2022
- 7 min
Unexpected 意外
2022年4月19日 Unexpected things happened this week. For example, on Good Friday I found myself in the Fahrgasse in Frankfurt. Well, you may...
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- Apr 12, 2022
- 4 min
Sequoia Giganteum ジャイアントレッドウッド
2022年4月12日 Sequoia Giganteum. What a name! What a tree! I was always fascinated by it, The giant Redwood of California. I think there was...
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- Apr 5, 2022
- 5 min
Iced cherry blossom 花冷え
2022年4月5日 Good Morning, Guten Morgen, おはようございます! Welcome to the first post of April. This picture of a local lake could almost be a...
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