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Travelling the world

‘Not all those who wander are lost’ Today I want to tell you something about travelling the world. Travelling is probably the most beautiful thing on earth. No matter if you’re young or old, if you travel to another country you are going to be happy and very excited about all the new experiences. Why? Because […]

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A Christmas Carol

Only 44 days left and then the most beautiful time of the year is here. All the chains of lights and the cinnamon smell all over the world. It couldn’t be better. No matter what, on Christmas all kind of people celebrate together and there is much more love and peace compared to the rest

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Say it in Neapolitan!

Say it in Neapolitan! Neapolitan or Napolitano is the language of most of the southern continental Italy, including the city of Naples. It is not named after the city, but after the Kingdom of Naples, which once covered most of this area and of which Naples was the capital. On October 14, 2008 a law

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Typically Bavaria

Is it true that everyone who lives in Bavaria, Germany is wearing a ‘Lederhosn’ or a ‘Dirndl’ all the time? Or that every person who is born in Bavaria is playing a musical instrument? But the fact that all Bavarian people are supporting the regional football team Bavarian Munich has to be true, right? And

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The Man Booker Prize 2015

Literature translators can sometimes be considered one of the least appreciated professions in the world. We read foreign books and praise the author for his style of writing while in reality we are reading the effect of somebody else’s hard work – a translator whose name we usually do not notice, even if it appears

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The Spicy City of 100 Churches – Wurzburg

The Spicy City Bier, Lederhosn, Weisswurst – Germany. Ever since Germany was officially reunited in 1990, stereotypes of beer-drinking, sausage eating, football loving, sometimes seemingly rude and direct speaking blonde-haired people, who all live in Munich or Berlin and using unnecessary complex sentence structures, have always been a constant in the international mind. It must

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