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Pizza from the Corner House in Cardiff. Big thanks to http://imbringing-reichenbach.tumblr.com/ for the recommendation, it was a lovely place for food & drinks :) (sorry for the crap photo quality)

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Brown Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies

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Not many things look happier than Happy Janis

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Fun with Words

1. bawker: a roguish bowler with confederates in the crowd

2. feffnicute: a hypocrite, a waffler

3. hempy: mischievous, malicious

4. arfname: heir to a fortune

5. swilking: drunken, said of a man who drinks until the liquor can be heard swilking about in his stomach

6. man-browed: having hair between the eyebrows

7. ambiloquy: the use of doubtful and vague expressions

8. thrall: slave. bottle-thrall: slave to the bottle. bed-thrall: lazy person

9. flurrigigs: useless ornamentation

10. satyrica: aphrodisiacs

11. zounderkite: a person whose stupid conduct leads to awkward failures

12. teaty-wad: moistened sugar tied up in fabric in the shape of a nipple and given to a child to quiet it when its mother is indisposed

13. aquabibe: a water-drinker

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Blues Harmonica Solo

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Count Sigwalt von Schnauzer, of the famed Kampfeinsitzerkommando.

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Mozart’s nationality

Was Mozart German or Austrian? Technically, neither. Salzburg was an independent ecclesiastical territory until 1803, ruled by a Prince-Archbishop. In spite of the fact that it was a part of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, its inhabitants didn’t see themselves as either German or Austrians. When Mozart labelled himself as a “true German” (“ehrlicher Teütcher”) he was implicitly referring to his language and to his cultural heritage (it should also be taken into account that his father was Bavarian and the Mozarts had Swabian origins). Mozart was first and foremost a citizen of Salzburg (a “salzburgian”, even though it is not a commonly used term), and later a subject of the Habsburg Monarchy (when he moved to Vienna). From a contemporary viewpoint, he can be considered Austrian.

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On the Baltic Sea island Usedom, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Northeastern Germany

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Another German breakfast — Salamibrot, Ei, Orangensaft und Fruchtsalat

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Hohenstaufen mountain around Göppingen in the Stuttgart region of Baden-Württemberg, Southwestern Germany. It is the ancestral seat of 3 of the Holy Roman Emperors, and the birthplace of contemporary football coach Jürgen Klinsmann. Tradition holds that the city was founded by an Alemannic leader called Geppo sometime in the 3rd or 4th century.

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Interior of the library of Humboldt University in Berlin

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Das Schloss Lichtenstein, aka the “Fairy tale castle of Württemberg”, is an 1840s Biedermeier style Gothic Revival castle built on a large rock near Honau, Reutlingen in Baden-Württemberg, Southwestern Germany. In 2009, the castle was used for the filming of the German adaption of the original Grimm’s Fairy tale, Dornröschen (English: Sleeping Beauty).

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Laugenbrötchen are a baked German specialty, especially in Bayern and Schwaben, but up North, too. They’re made by glazing bread rolls with a lye solution before baking. The German name for any baked good dipped in lye is Laugengebäck; for rolls specifically, Laugensemmel or Kastanie (Bavarian), Laugenweckle (Swabian) or Laugenbrötchen (everywhere else). Both the rolls and pretzels are covered with large grains of salt, and they’re now sometimes sold covered with baked cheese at fast food stands. 

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Schillerplatz in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Southwestern Germany. It’s a square in the old city center of Stuttgart, named in honor of the German poet, philosopher, historian, and dramatist Friedrich Schiller.

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Favorite German Words

Das Weichei = literally “soft egg”. A wuss, a wimp, a softy, a sissy, pussy, pansy, candy-ass; someone who’s anxious or spineless or both. A whiny person who sees problems where there are none.

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Das Schloss Moritzburg, Sachsen (Saxony), Eastern Germany, is a Baroque palace just outside of Dresden. It has 4 round towers and lies on a symmetrical artificial island. It is named after Duke Moritz of Saxony, who had a hunting lodge built there in the 1500′s. The surrounding woodlands and lakes have been a favorite hunting area of the electors and kings of Saxony. Website.

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