Dear Stammtisch Friends In just over six weeks, it will be Christmas again and we have of course planned another Christmas Dinner (Weihnachtsessen). The Mansion House will look after us this year on Monday, 6 December and on the menu will be Christmas goose and dumplings (Weihnachtsgans und Kloesse). The overall cost will be £20 [...]
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Autumn Update
Posted in Business, Events organised by Others, Food & Drink, Jobs, Languages & Communications, Stammtisch, Travel on November 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Food & Beer – It’s Oktoberfest Time
Posted in Film, Food & Drink, Languages & Communications, Music, Travel on September 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Grisinagott! Now that autumn has well and truly arrived, we can celebrate the Oktoberfest! This year it’s a pretty significant date, as the Wies’n celebrates its 200th anniversary. For those of you who can’t make it to Munich – one of the North East’s pubs has embraced our Bavarian festivities and maybe you want to [...]
Samba & Railways
Posted in Music, Travel on July 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The small Franconian town of Coburg has just hosted the world’s largest Samba Festival outside of Brazil. Around 200,000 visitors attended the yearly celebration with Samba groups from all over the world. Participants included Rio’s reigning Carnival Queen who probably wondered in temperatures of mid 30˚C if she was on the wrong continent. Stern Online [...]
Planes, Trains & Bicyles
Posted in Travel on June 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This week the German magazine published an article on the cycle tours in Germany – click here for a link. And if you are in Germany and haven’t got a bike with you, Deutsche Bahn might just be your saviour. Check out the iPhone app – DB Bahn Call a Bike. I also recently found [...]
Summer Festival Season in Germany
Posted in Culture, Music, Travel on June 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Are your planning some trips to Germany over the summer? Here are some ideas of various festivals you might enjoy: Coburg hosts the largest Samba Festival outside of Brazil from 9 – 11 July The free Bardentreffen takes place for 35th time in Nuremberg from 30 July to 1 August The Leipziger Jazz Tage are [...]
German Rail Connections
Posted in Travel on May 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
You are probably aware that in April Deutsche Bahn started its operation of the Tyne & Wear Metro. At the end of last month DB also announced its successful £1.59bn bid for Sunderland based bus and rail firm arriva, strengthening the German transport operator’s market position in the UK. A long time before DB came [...]
Merry Christmas / Frohe Weihnachten
Posted in Business, Languages & Communications, Stammtisch, Travel on December 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A big thank you to everybody who supported our regulars’ table. Since our first beer garden get-together in July, our group has grown quite considerably. We are now working on an events/activities schedule for 2010 and appreciate any suggestions/ideas. The very first event for your diary will be our Rosenmontag Party (Carnival Monday) on 15 [...]
Christmas Stammtisch @ the Hilton in Gateshead
Posted in Events organised by Others, Food & Drink, Languages & Communications, Stammtisch, Travel on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Hilton Hotel in Gateshead has organised a German Christmas Dinner on Tuesday, 8 December. We will meet first for some Glühwein and chats at 6.30pm and ‘Weihnachtsgans und Klösse’ (goose and dumplings) from 7.30pm onwards. The venue is the bar area with fabulous views of the river Tyne. Everybody pays again for themselves, depending [...]
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