Howe Reports

Time for a quickie - Beer und Bretzels bitte

Tim Howe beat the bureaucracy to become one of the few foreign language teachers in a German school.

Read Tim's Telegraph article To Sir with beer and bretzels

Watch out, they're all about....

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I meet up with the man behind the "Feeling of Freedom" that's sweeping the country.

Caution, naked cyclists passing ahead

Bag a bargain with German recycling>>

Germany's recycling system is one of the most complicated in the world.

A dozen different colour-coded boxes for all your rubbish - you need an instruction manual to work out what goes where!

Yet it functions with all the precision of a Swiss narrow gauge railway.

Howe's Careers:
Audimax:
Goodbye Deutschland - Pflicht oder Kur?
Unicum:
Brain Drain auf Zeit
Weekly Telegraph:
Young Germans rush abroad
Finding strength in numbers

A while back I was drafted in to write "gastronomic reviews" for the monthly "Munich in your Pocket".
International eateries in Munich

Travel reports
Inn Town - Wasserburg
The Munich Wanderers
Passau
Winter sports in Bayrischzell
Bad Tölz

Life in Germany
Watching the Germans
Travel Light

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Public holidays
May be Good

Did you know that 2008 was International Year of Languages?

But do Brits need to speak other tongues if every one else speaks English?

How British schools celebrated the event.

How do you make a German laugh?

Seriously, why do Bavarians laugh only when they've "a Mooaß" in their hand?
And how to make yourself laugh at German humour?

Find out what Anglo-phones think about the Germans at Toytown Germany and why we secretly like living in Germany:

It's net gain for sociable expats living in Germany >>

Lost in Translation?

Good translation practice has changed little since Bill Murray & Scarlett Johansson had their famous fling.

How to get started in the profession of

Translating & Interpreting>>