My youngest son has been teaching English in Ludwigshafen, Germany<\/a> this school year. Since the year is almost over, my wife and I are visiting him. Yes, this is a bit late, but that is how it works sometimes.<\/p>\n This photo from Wikipedia is the view from our window at the Best Western Motel<\/a>.<\/p>\n The weather has been cool with a few sprinkles every morning. There, the facts are out of the way, so now I can share my opinions with the world. Please understand, I am jet lagged and fatigued from not sleeping on a motel bed with lousy pillows. Don’t take most of this seriously.<\/p>\n Germans grind all their meat and form it into patties of one sort or another.<\/p>\n Germans don’t put much spice in their food. I was saved one day to find a bottle of Tabasco on the table of a restaurant.<\/p>\n Stuff here is really old. Here is a photo of my son and me standing on a tower that was built 900 years ago in a place called Bad Wimpfen<\/a>. 900 years old folks, that is really old. Note: the wooden railing is not 900 years old.<\/p>\n My son and me on the Red Tower in Bad Wimpfen<\/p><\/div>\n I am surprised at how much things in Germany are like things in America. The clothing fashions are almost identical. I keep waiting for someone to walk up to me and start in with, “Hey, Kevin Durant is going to dominate basketball for the next ten years. The Thunder will win 6 or 8 titles.”<\/p>\n I have always been confused about whether the “i” went before the “e” or the other way around. I am totally lost now.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/RedTower-150x150.jpg\" "\\"RedTower\\"")
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![the same things<\/a> that Mark Twain did over a hundred years ago. That is pretty neat.<\/p>\nMy son lives in a part of town called “Little Istanbul.”<\/p>\nThe Germans are off to a good start in the 2012 UEFA championships. I am not sure if that is the official name of the tournament, but they are trying to beat all the other Europeans in a soccer tournament. They are very excited here.<\/p>\nI have never ridden trains so much in my life. I like them. My son tells me all the ways you can ride without paying (he pays, so do my wife and I).<\/p>\nI go to bed at 3PM and wake at 11PM. At least that is what my watch tells me.<\/p>\nI should have paid for international data roaming on my iPhone instead of just telephone roaming. I really miss not having maps and other data accesses on my phone. I could be ruling<\/em> Instagram by now.<\/p>\nGerman Doner<\/a> is like American pizza. No one would recognize it in the old country, but everyone here seems to like it.<\/p>\nGermans spell many words the same way Americans do, but they pronounce them differently.<\/p>\nEnough rambling. It is time for breakfast. My watch says 1AM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Dwayne Phillips My wife and I are visiting our son in Germany. Being a good, bad Ugly American, I have thoughts that capture the entire country ( \ud83d\ude09 My youngest son has been teaching English in Ludwigshafen, Germany this school year. Since the year is almost over, my wife and I are visiting him. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,56,73],"tags":[167,177,193],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-differences","category-family","category-vacation","tag-differences","tag-family","tag-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:PowderT.jpg\"){kind=link}