I’ve added visiting Poland in winter to my to-do list and learned that a cross through a name on a road sign means we are leaving the area.…
Keep ReadingOkay, Berlin I ought to try to sleep! I have an iced latte waiting for me in a couple of hours. Gute Nacht!…
Keep ReadingHi from Berlin—Kreuzberg, to be specific. Don’t ask me to pronounce it; I had to Google it just to spell it. I’m having a flat white—my first one today, my first one in Berlin, and, come to think of it, my first one on this trip. The weather is lovely—warm, windy, and a bit…
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It's hard to believe Berlin's public transport is unreliable, given the German saying, "Five minutes before the time is the German punctuality."…
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Cao Cao is a Vietnamese restaurant - marking the second time I’ve had Vietnamese food as my first meal upon arriving in Berlin.…
Keep ReadingI am back in Germany, though not yet in Berlin, and it has been almost ten years since my first visit. De javu moment!…
Keep ReadingWe reached Berlin two hours late—why didn’t I anticipate that train companies in Europe could be this unreliable? Then we spent another 30 minutes trying to figure out where the train station was. After going up and down the same floors multiple times, we finally gave up and took a taxi from the back…
Keep ReadingTwo hours after we landed in Amsterdam, I found myself sitting in an almost-closed Noord Market 27 food court—blurry-eyed and hungry.…
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We just left Dubai International Airport. Officially embark on the third and final leg of our flight to kick off our seven-country trip.…
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Summary of the last 30 days of Kulture Kween, the person and the culture blog, which are based on the notes I scribbled down in my journal.…
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