Re: escape
 

Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:[color=blue]
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:50:39 +0000 (UTC), Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid>
> wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> On Sun, 09 Nov 2014 14:26:45 -0800, ALittleRockInTheCosmos <what@ga.wd> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 11/9/2014 12:57 AM, Martin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, 8 Nov 2014 19:15:18 +0000 (UTC), Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Ah, but I follow events there and I HAVE lived there in the past.
>>>>>
>>>>> Lived long term or just visited? Paid both German and US income tax at the same
>>>>> time?
>>>>
>>>> As a US ex-pat, one only pays income taxes to both countries if one's
>>>> income exceeds a certain threshold. This year, that amount for the full
>>>> year is $99,200. I doubt Erilar's income exceeds that threshold.
>>>
>>> Who knows? :-)
>>>[/color]
>> At the time I was a grad student on a fellowsip.[/color]
>
> Nice word :-)
>[color=green]
>> I couldn't even afford to
>> eat in restaurants 8-)[/color]
>
> and now?[/color]

Since I don't get there as often or for as long, I DO eat in restaurants
most of the time there.
--
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad

Re: escape
 

Frank Hucklenbroich wrote:[color=blue]
> Am Mon, 10 Nov 2014 11:35:31 -0700 schrieb EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque):
>[color=green]
>> Unfortunately, the only places I would WANT to live (Vienna, Brussels or
>> Paris) are too expensive for one with limited means. The same is true
>> for many places in the U.S., alas. Also, Medicare (and American brands
>> of medical insurance) do not cover me in Europe. That's a factor a
>> great many Americans don't realize until they need medical care abroad.[/color]
>
> At least in Germany you have to have a medical-insurence that is valid for
> Germany, otherwise you won't get a visa.[/color]

Yes, I had a very reasonably priced travel medical policy with American
Express when I was traveling - it covered everything, including
repatriation and even a travel companion in the event of REALLY serious
illness. However, it only covered a trip of six months or less.

Re: escape
 

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <evgmsop@earthlink.net> wrote:[color=blue]
> Erilar wrote:[color=green]
>> Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:[/color]
>[color=green][color=darkred]
>>> Make your own bread and stay at home.
>>> I do all of the former and a lot of the latter. When not doing the latter,[/color]
>> I've learned they have pretty good bread in Scandinavia generally.[/color]
>
> Pastry, too! I grew up in Minnesota (with a large Scandinavian
> population). I actually came to believe the talent for baking cakes and
> pastries may be genetic. We'd be served have something wonderful when
> visiting a friend of my mother's, she'd beg and receive the recipe, but
> the results were never the same when she made it.[/color]

When I was teaching German, I used to take some German Christmas cookies to
school for my students. Some of them wanted recipes, so I shared those,
too. I only knew one whose mother tried one, but he said they didn't taste
like mine. She hadn't had any marjoram, which those cookies needed. I know
there are some Scandinavian baked goods use that, too. Norwegian, I think,
because at least one I learned came from a family with Norwegian ancestry.
--
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad

Re: escape
 

On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 18:57:19 +0100, Giovanni Drogo
<drogo@rn.bastiani.ta.invalid> wrote:
[color=blue]
>On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Frank Hucklenbroich wrote:
>[color=green]
>> In the UK some people don't even have a passport. Once you don't
>> travel abroad, you don't need one.[/color]
>
>In Italy most people don't have a passport if they do not need to travel
>outside the EU. For that an identity card suffices. And avoids/avoided
>to have to pay the yearly stamp on the passport.[/color]

In UK state issued I/D cards don't exist. UK passports for adults are valid for
ten years.
--

Martin in Zuid Holland

Re: escape
 

On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 18:43:13 +0000 (UTC), Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid>
wrote:
[color=blue]
>Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:[color=green]
>> On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:50:40 +0000 (UTC), Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid>
>> wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 8 Nov 2014 19:15:18 +0000 (UTC), Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 20:15:34 +0000 (UTC), Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The election results are in. i really want to move to Germany. Politics
>>>>>>> strike me as more rational there.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Only because you don't live in Germany.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ah, but I follow events there and I HAVE lived there in the past.
>>>>
>>>> Lived long term or just visited? Paid both German and US income tax at the same
>>>> time?
>>>>
>>>>> Besides,
>>>>> they have the best bread in the world!
>>>>
>>>> Make your own bread and stay at home.
>>>
>>> I do all of the former and a lot of the latter. When not doing the latter,
>>> I've learned they have pretty good bread in Scandinavia generally.[/color]
>>
>> and in France too?[/color]
>
>Not on the one trip when I was there.[/color]

Only because you didn't try to buy bread and because you stayed in cheap ****
hostels/hotels. I've never had bad bread in France.
--

Martin in Zuid Holland

Re: escape
 

On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 18:43:13 +0000 (UTC), Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid>
wrote:
[color=blue]
>Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:[color=green]
>> On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:50:41 +0000 (UTC), Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid>
>> wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> "JohnT" <spamnot@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>> "Erilar" <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote in message
>>>> news:m3lq46$97v$5@dont-email.me...
>>>>> Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 20:15:34 +0000 (UTC), Erilar >> <drache@chibardun.netinvalid>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The election results are in. i really want to move to Germany. Politics
>>>>>>> strike me as more rational there.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Only because you don't live in Germany.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ah, but I follow events there and I HAVE lived there in the past. > Besides,
>>>>> they have the best bread in the world!
>>>>
>>>> Some German bread is tolerably good. I assume that you are not familiar with Poilane.
>>>
>>> In a year and I half there I kept finding new kinds and all were delicious.
>>> Now I make my own to avoid the mixture of pallid flour, water, and
>>> chemicals so popular in the US. Even non-white bread here has lists of
>>> chemicals in it.[/color]
>>
>> It's possible that the flour you use is from GM grain and has added chemicals
>> too, including pesticide residues.[/color]
>
>Much of it is bought at health food stores where they generally have a
>strong aversion to unnatural foods.[/color]

That's what they want the customers to believe. Dutch CA tests on so called
organic wines showed more chemicals added than are added to most normal wines.
--

Martin in Zuid Holland

Re: escape
 

On 08.11.2014 21:38, JohnT wrote:[color=blue]
>
> "Erilar" <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote in message
> news:m3lq46$97v$5@dont-email.me...[color=green]
>> Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 20:15:34 +0000 (UTC), Erilar
>>> <drache@chibardun.netinvalid>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The election results are in. i really want to move to Germany. Politics
>>>> strike me as more rational there.
>>>
>>> Only because you don't live in Germany.[/color]
>>
>> Ah, but I follow events there and I HAVE lived there in the past.
>> Besides,
>> they have the best bread in the world![/color]
>
> Some German bread is tolerably good. I assume that you are not familiar
> with Poilane.[/color]

There is no such thing as "German" bread. Each region has different
kinds of bread. In Bavaria bread often contains a lot of caraway, an
acquired taste for me.

Re: escape
 

On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 19:30:55 +0100, Tom P <werotizy@freent.dd> wrote:
[color=blue]
>On 08.11.2014 21:38, JohnT wrote:[color=green]
>>
>> "Erilar" <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote in message
>> news:m3lq46$97v$5@dont-email.me...[color=darkred]
>>> Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 20:15:34 +0000 (UTC), Erilar
>>>> <drache@chibardun.netinvalid>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The election results are in. i really want to move to Germany. Politics
>>>>> strike me as more rational there.
>>>>
>>>> Only because you don't live in Germany.
>>>
>>> Ah, but I follow events there and I HAVE lived there in the past.
>>> Besides,
>>> they have the best bread in the world![/color]
>>
>> Some German bread is tolerably good. I assume that you are not familiar
>> with Poilane.[/color]
>
>There is no such thing as "German" bread. Each region has different
>kinds of bread. In Bavaria bread often contains a lot of caraway, an
>acquired taste for me.[/color]

but liked by others including me.

German bread is a collective term. It includes all types of German bread from
all regions.
--

Martin in Zuid Holland

Re: escape
 

Tom P <werotizy@freent.dd> wrote:[color=blue]
> On 08.11.2014 21:38, JohnT wrote:[color=green]
>>
>> "Erilar" <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote in message
>> news:m3lq46$97v$5@dont-email.me...[color=darkred]
>>> Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 20:15:34 +0000 (UTC), Erilar
>>>> <drache@chibardun.netinvalid>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The election results are in. i really want to move to Germany. Politics
>>>>> strike me as more rational there.
>>>>
>>>> Only because you don't live in Germany.
>>>
>>> Ah, but I follow events there and I HAVE lived there in the past.
>>> Besides,
>>> they have the best bread in the world![/color]
>>
>> Some German bread is tolerably good. I assume that you are not familiar
>> with Poilane.[/color]
>
> There is no such thing as "German" bread. Each region has different kinds
> of bread. In Bavaria bread often contains a lot of caraway, an acquired taste for me.[/color]

No, there just many kinds that vary locally for my definition of "German"
8-)
--
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad

Re: escape
 

Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:[color=blue]
> On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 18:43:13 +0000 (UTC), Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid>
> wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:50:40 +0000 (UTC), Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, 8 Nov 2014 19:15:18 +0000 (UTC), Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>> On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 20:15:34 +0000 (UTC), Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The election results are in. i really want to move to Germany. Politics
>>>>>>>> strike me as more rational there.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Only because you don't live in Germany.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ah, but I follow events there and I HAVE lived there in the past.
>>>>>
>>>>> Lived long term or just visited? Paid both German and US income tax at the same
>>>>> time?
>>>>>
>>>>>> Besides,
>>>>>> they have the best bread in the world!
>>>>>
>>>>> Make your own bread and stay at home.
>>>>
>>>> I do all of the former and a lot of the latter. When not doing the latter,
>>>> I've learned they have pretty good bread in Scandinavia generally.
>>>
>>> and in France too?[/color]
>>
>> Not on the one trip when I was there.[/color]
>
> Only because you didn't try to buy bread and because you stayed in cheap ****
> hostels/hotels. I've never had bad bread in France.[/color]

It was a group tour. The places we stayed were generally nice. The second
time they had this weiners and beans stuff as main course, I went back to
my hotel and skipped supper. Thin fish soup was even worse.
--
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad