Art by the yard

In my neighbourhood there is a shop where they sell ‘kunst pro quadratmeter’ which I will translate with ‘art by the yard’ For only 200 Euro you get 100 x 100 centimeter of art. Which I think is a bargain. Go check them out here: kaufhauskunst.de

Majority of Germans would like their ‘mark’ back

According to a survey conducted by the German magazine Stern, almost 60 percent of the Germans would like to see their currency – the Euro – replaced by the goold old Deutschmark. They blame the Euro for things getting all expensive. More than 30 percent still calculate prices in Deutschmark.

Schnoor

I just moved. Yesterday I cooked my first meal – baked an egg that is – in my new home. I live in the city center of Bremen, a town in the north of Germany. Schnoor they call that – quite old – part of the city because of its narrow streets. I live in a normal house, but just around the corner it looks like a Walt Disney filmset. I wandered around a bit, waiting for Harry Potter to show up.

Kraut News

A new category: news from Germany in English. Here is the first one:

A Nandu named Robert

According to the German ‘Bild’ more then 20 people tried to hunt down a nandu but failed. The police has no idea were the bird comes from. “It might have escaped from a circus that was in the area a few months ago” a Nandu-expert said. The expert also stated that in Mecklenburg over a 100 Nandus escaped from various zoos, formed a herd that attacks innocent people.