Baden-Württemberg, the second largest of the ten German states that made up former West Germany, was the home of my maternal grandfather’s ancestors. I’ll bet the folks back there were scandalized when his father, my great-grandfather, returned from Iowa to pick up his girlfriend, eventually my great-grandmother, but he refused to marry her before theyContinue reading “G is for Ten in Germany”
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G is for Germany
“Germany” (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) by barnyz From 1985 to 1987, I spent my spare time in Germany in search of a bad German restaurant. I didn’t find one. The closest I came was a mediocre restaurant in an area that catered to tourists–Oberammergau. I decided that one didn’t count.