by Clare Klinghammer | Sep 29, 2022 | Blog, Family Life in Germany
Today I spent the day updating my first aid knowledge. I have always believed that it’s important to have the basic knowledge and skills to be able to react and help in an emergency, and my first course was as a teenager when I was a Girl Guide, but it had been...
by Clare Klinghammer | Sep 19, 2022 | Blog, Family Life in Germany, Home & Happy in Germany
I am currently running one of my “Home & Happy in Germany” courses at the prestigious Frankfurt International School, Oberursel. When I was devising the course, the questions of what is “home” and what makes us happy were, of course, at the forefront of my mind....
by Clare Klinghammer | Sep 15, 2022 | Blog, Family Life in Germany
A vending machine for fresh ingredients and food? Yes!! The REGIOMAT (a combination of REGIOnal and autoMAT (the word for (dispensing) machine – like the Geldautomat is the cash machine) is an increasingly popular way for farmers to sell their produce directly to...
by Clare Klinghammer | Sep 12, 2022 | Blog, Family Life in Germany, Home & Happy in Germany, Nests & Wings Courses
Autumn (aka Fall) is here (as the above children’s song title proclaims) and however you feel about temperatures dropping and the rain falling, it means we get to embrace the cosier and tastier sides of this beautifully colourful season. In Germany, in-season...
