Last week I was at the annual Citizen’s reception celebrating 60 years of twinning with Épinay-sur-Seine in France and 35 years with Rushmoor in England. As is the tradition at this event, the Citzen’s medal was awarded to a local organisation and prizes for worthy local youth projects were handed out.
I was there for the Oberurseler Woche and my article is on the front page today!
Click here to read it in German
Oberursel has a new Fountain Queen. Janine I. was crowned last Saturday during the mobilitiy exhibition in front of Oberursel’s town hall.
Muttertag, or Mother’s Day, is on the second Sunday of May in Germany.
Since this means that it will always be later in the year than the UK equivalent, for years I have been resigned to the fact that I cannot purchase a card in Germany for the UK date, and faced with the option of buying a card and keeping it for 10 months or sending one for the German date, I have always opted for the latter.
Unfortunately, such cards do not become readily available until a few weeks before the event, and unlike some other countries, Germany does not seem to go in for a wide variety of them.
However this year the search for a Muttertagskarte has been worse than usual. [Read more…]
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