If you look online for pictures from the Laternenfest Bad Homburg, any year, chances are good that they exclude pictures of the parade. This is for good reason: namely, no
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Happy Palmtree for Kids
Reading a book to a group of kids – especially in this environment, where I am the American in a small German town, reading to a multi-cultural group of kids
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I come from a young country. America. So when I see a historic landmark was built in the 1700s, it amazes me. Just earlier today, I discovered that in my
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In Bad Homburg there is always something to do. Sometimes it is right up my alley (as we say in the States – meaning it’s something that interests me a great deal), and sometimes, when I’m quite lucky, it is literally up...
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If you live in the center of town, or have visited the area recently, you may have noticed that our quiet little town has been pretty noisy lately. The sound of birds sweetly chirping as the sun rises is now met with the sound of metal beating...
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Living in Bad Homburg is easy to do if you can afford it. Once you get here, you can relax and enjoy all the free things this town provides, things like good schools, an excellent public library, beautiful parks, the Louisenstraße and all...
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This town, Bad Homburg, is my town. It’s where I feel at last at home, a foreign emotion for me – a foreigner to this place, I feel adopted. I will to a certain extent always be an outsider, or what Peter Mayle calls a permanent tourist, but Bad...
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