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Tessellations: April 2008
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Sunday, April 20, 2008. Buying groceries and other shopping in Strasbourg. Or when I wonder if we should buy something, the easy answer is, "No", and the reasoning is always the same. Like I said, liberating! You can buy eggs, bread and milk on your way home from the train at this automated épicerie (grocery store). Daily market at the cathedral square in Freiburg, Germany. The kids avoid grocery shopping with us whenever possible. While baking (and the supplies to bake with) are easy to find in North Am...
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Tessellations: February 2008
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008. Self-cleaning automatic toilet stall in Colmar. The cost to use a public toilet varies from free, which is unusual, to the most expensive one we used at the Berlin Zoo bahnhof (train station) at 1.10 € (about $1.65). In some places men can choose to use the pissoir for a cheaper price. (I call discrimination! The expensive one in Berlin) at other places. (If you click on the link, watch the website load the first time - it's cute! Send us an email! Links to this post. I have...
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Tessellations: May 2008
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Monday, May 19, 2008. Our neighbourhood in Strasbourg. We're in between "gigs" right now. Yesterday saw the departure of our latest group of guests, Mark's sister Barbara and nieces Natasha and Erica; and Friday we leave for Greece. Hopefully we can use the next few days to clean up some school work and learn the Greek alphabet! In the meantime, I'm already getting a little nostalgic for Strasbourg, and we're still living here! The Ill River, a tributary of the Rhine, splits and flows around the centre o...
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Tessellations: March 2008
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008. Interesting Uses of English in France. Within the country, the French also try to keep a tight grip on their language, not often allowing foreign words in. Sometimes, however, words sneak in and become part of the language, whether they're welcome or not. Thus you have people wishing you "Bon Weekend! The word "sexy" is always guaranteed to catch people's attention. But a price? I don't really get it. (I know, I know, I fell for it. It caught my attention.). There are an extrao...
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Tessellations: January 2008
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Saturday, January 19, 2008. It turns out that Steve tracks the plane from the moment it leaves the previous departure point so that he knows if his flight will leave on time. We'd never heard of that before, and it gave us a bit of a start! You might understand by now that we had a bit of cleaning to do. : ). Send a message and let us know how you're doing! Email works better than a bottle, and is less polluting:. Mvieweg @ gmail.com. Christinateskey @ yahoo.ca. Read the kids blog:. Links to this post.