In fact, pick several. Every city / town / village has at least one place where its people can come and exchange gossip over a drink of their preference, and if even long running TV shows and soaps are based around the concept of a local pub, there has to be something to it. Truth…
Month: March 2023
Life Hack Homesickness – Tip 2: Be a Tourist in Your Town
Truth is, I had never played tourist in Paris. The touristy places I visited were places of interest because of a certain exhibition or event, and the touristy places I’d frequented repeatedly were places that kind of just happened to be there and were attractive to me because of people, cafes or some energy that I liked. I always loved Sacré Cœur, but living so close meant that the path there was part of my fitness routine, as in I love walking and being asthmatic, this helped me gauge my fitness level on any given day.
10 Life Hacks on Beating Homesickness – Tip 1: Get to Know the Neighborhood
No matter how well adjusted we are, and how much we love the new place we are in, there will always come a time when the proverbial honeymoon is over, and that feeling of missing everyone and everything you hold near and dear starts kicking in, either by sneaking up on you or by hitting…
Moving from the Cross-cultural to the Intercultural – finding your identity through language(s)
The problem is that too often people tend to associate identity and belonging with language, and will label the speaker accordingly. For my part, I don’t want to be labeled as being part of a culture I either rejected early on or have absolutely no connection to by virtue of its changed geography. I also don’t want to come across as assigning more value to one culture than another
The (un)Glamorous Notion of the TCK / CCK Conundrum
The Personal Experience that Set the Initial Identity I first came across the term TCK in college, when someone much older than me made me aware of the term. I devoured all the material available, only to realize that it ticked all the boxes. Caught between this culture and the next, check. Code switching on…
A Few Thoughts On Regular Hangouts
The thing with bars, pubs and cafes that become regular places is that they can provide that home away from home where nothing ever changes, or only changes slowly, and where – as an additional bonus – you can always put your hat while not having to worry about much of anything else. Unless you…
Tales from a Local Pub Intro – defining the purpose of this blog
I never realized it before, mainly because I didn’t think about it too much back then, but my last 2.5 years in Germany what kept me truly grounded -and quite frankly sane – was the fact that with my then best friend we had a few places at which we loved to hang out on…
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