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Tag Archives: new year
Happy New Year 2018
2018 is about two hours old here in Germany. So first of all, a happy, healthy and successful 2018 to all of you and may it be better than the trashfire of a year that was 2017. I spent New … Continue reading
New Year’s Day 2017
I spent a quiet New Year’s Day. In past years, I have occasionally gone to a gathering with some family friends in the Teufelsmoor region just north of Bremen on New Year’s Day. But they always invite a guy who … Continue reading
New Year 2017
Here in Germany, it has been 2017 has been here for about five hours now and on Times Square, that crystal ball should be dropping soon. But first, let’s have some photos of holiday decorations at Roland Center mall here … Continue reading
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Tagged Bremen, decorations, family, fireworks, food, new year, photos
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New Year’s Night 2015/2016
2016 is approximately five hours old where I am, so a Happy New Year to all readers and followers of this blog. As always, WordPress/Jetpack offer a yearly report and the 2015 report for this blog may be found here. … Continue reading
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Tagged family, fireworks, food, German politics, new year, photos, politics, wacky German customs
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Happy New Year 2015
Here in Germany, the New Year is almost twelve hours old already, so time for the first post of 2015. And if you’re looking for something to read, the good folks at OmniLit/All Romance e-books are running a New Year’s … Continue reading
New Year 2014 and photos of Teufelsmoor
I hope you’ve all reached 2014 safely. I’ve never been much of a New Year’s person and this year, I was not happy at all on New Year’s Night for a variety of reasons and in fact, I would have … Continue reading
New Year’s Day 2013 and a Mad Santa House
The new year started with rain and truly miserable weather. Like every year, we visited some friends of my parents who live in Teufelsmoor (devil’s moor), a bog region north of Bremen. We had lunch at a really good Greek … Continue reading
Posted in General, Personal
Tagged Christmas, family, food, new year, photos, Teufelsmoor
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New Year’s Night 2012/2013
The new year started here in Western and central Europe a couple of hours ago. I no longer do the party thing or the standing around on the market square watching fireworks thing (been there, done that), so I celebrated … Continue reading
New Year’s Day 2012 and a look back on 2011
After not getting a whole lot of sleep last night, I had to get up fairly early today, because on new year’s day we always visit some friends of my parents at Teufelsmoor just north of Bremen. First we went … Continue reading
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Tagged food, inspiration, metrics, new year, Pegasus Pulp, Teufelsmoor
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New Year’s Night 2011/2012
2012 is already around six hours old and the crystal ball dropped on Times Square approx. 13 minutes ago. So here’s a happy new year to all my readers! I’m not a party person and so this was supposed to … Continue reading