Queues likely

                                          
British people love to queue (or so it seems at least). They form an orderly queue in almost every situation.  When people ask me how Germans handle the dilemma of 100 people wanting to get on a bus with 40 seats, I never really have a satisfying answer. I don’t really know to be [...]

Defeated Kiwis and Dr Who?

I’ve just come back from Cardiff where I spent the weekend with my husband’s family. You might just expect a stiff breeze and lots of sheep when going to Wales, but actually there was loads of stuff going on there… And I realised again that even after 4 years of living in the UK, there [...]

On towels and fair play…

As a German who has lived in the UK for a number of years now (with a 1-year stopover in California) it never seizes to amaze me how deep certain stereotypes run on both sides of the Channel. While many of them may be justified, I’ll be trying to just observe some of the differences [...]