Excuse me, I'm German

Let me start by saying that I am a Christian. I believe in God, and in the teachings of Jesus and I have read the Bible several times now. That doesn’t mean I understand it all. But I have my ideas. I am supposed to be pro-life. I want to protect all life, children, the elderly…

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Vicarious Travel Blog, Day 21: From Athens, the trip took them to the little island of Paros, somewhere in the Aegean Sea. From Athens, it was a 4 hours ferry ride and I can only dream of how beautiful it must have been. Of course, my busy mind also imagined them to be in…

May 22

I moved to Canada in 1999, and it took me a while to overcome the culture shock. Bread now has sugar in it, and 110V power outlets are weak. But life is good. I still haven’t gotten used to the fact that people here drink Rootbeer AND ENJOY IT. Poutine is ok, peanut butter and…

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Vicarious Travel Blog, Day 20: The kids arrived in Athens today. No, nobody lost any wallets or bags or phones today. At least I didn’t get a call about it. Today was dedicated to wandering around Athens, in beautiful weather. For some reason, instead of pictures of…

May 21

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Vicarious Travel Blog, Day 19: Some stories are so unbelievable, they must be true. This one is. Yesterday, Thomas and his girlfriend traveled by train…

May 19

Vicarious Travel Blog, Days 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13: Thomas and his girlfriend are leaving my hometown tomorrow morning for Munich. For the past 6 days…

May 15

Vicarious Travel Blog, Day 7: The kids are still in Chester. Today, they went to a zoo. I had no idea that in Chester, a town of around 90,000 people…

May 9

Vicarious Travel Blog, Day 6: Tonight, the kids were treated to a football (soccer) game at a local pub. Personally, I think an English pub has to be…

May 8

Vicarious Travel Blog, Day 5: I didn’t hear much today from Thomas and his girlfriend. I’m confident that this means that they’re doing ok. I got a text…

May 7

Vicarious Travel Blog, Day 4: On this, the fourth day of travel, our fearless young globetrotters explored the area in and around Chester. Being with…

May 6

Vicarious Travel Blog, Day 3: After only a day and a half, it was time to say good-bye to London and catch a train to the North of England. A delay got…

May 5

Vicarious Travel Blog, Day 2: When they arrived in London around noon yesterday, they were exhausted. But as the jetlag protocol requires, nobody got…

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Excuse me, I'm German

This is my blog. My soap box. My public diary. My tech review site. My photo album. You can name it whatever you want - I called it "Excuse me, I'm German", because there are plenty of reasons to apologize.

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