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by hh-sailor
Thu Mar 27, 2025 12:55 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: What made you smile today? :)
Replies: 161
Views: 88378

Re: What made you smile today? :)

by hh-sailor
Mon Feb 10, 2025 12:53 am
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Today I learned something stupid!
Replies: 1
Views: 548

Re: Today I learned something stupid!

A man, a plan, a canal - Panama!
by hh-sailor
Thu Dec 05, 2024 10:18 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: State School choices in Germany
Replies: 29
Views: 13815

Re: State School choices in Germany

Although not quite a state school - they get some subsidies and so the fees are not too high... I am talking about the Waldorf / Steiner schools. I seem to remember that you'd tried these on the "old TT". Would that be something for him ? My 3 kids and a bunch of nephews / nieces went to W...
by hh-sailor
Sat Nov 23, 2024 10:21 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: What Made You Laugh Today
Replies: 581
Views: 214790

Re: What Made You Laugh Today

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by hh-sailor
Tue Nov 12, 2024 12:05 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: What are you watching right now?
Replies: 16
Views: 6398

Re: What are you watching right now?

Just finished the 2nd / newly released series of
The Diplomat on Netflix

Well worth it!

And a terrific and unexpected cliff hanger at the very end (no spoiler from me)
by hh-sailor
Tue Nov 12, 2024 12:00 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Why are you happy today?
Replies: 132
Views: 90514

Re: Why are you happy today?

Good for you HEM!

Keep up with the physio!!
by hh-sailor
Tue Nov 12, 2024 11:56 am
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: What Made You Laugh Today
Replies: 581
Views: 214790

Re: What Made You Laugh Today

Yuch,

and I thought sweet and sour was something vaguely Chinese :shock:
by hh-sailor
Thu Nov 07, 2024 1:33 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: What made you smile today? :)
Replies: 161
Views: 88378

Re: What made you smile today? :)

Are you worried by letters from the Finanzamt? Does each FA letter cause you tremors? Imagine that you didn't receive one but 1700 letters, all identical, on the same day... Thats what happened to this guy in Quickborn (Schleswig-Holstein) Quote : A man in Quickborn , Schleswig-Holstein, will not so...
by hh-sailor
Wed Nov 06, 2024 12:13 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: What Made You Laugh Today
Replies: 581
Views: 214790

Re: What Made You Laugh Today

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by hh-sailor
Mon Nov 04, 2024 9:26 am
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: What Made You Laugh Today
Replies: 581
Views: 214790

Re: What Made You Laugh Today

Once you see it, you can't unsee it !!
by hh-sailor
Thu Oct 10, 2024 1:10 pm
Forum: Health insurance
Topic: International travel health insurance outside Germany
Replies: 3
Views: 2348

Re: International travel health insurance outside Germany

I'm with
https://www.europ-assistance.de/privatkunden

for their travel health insurance. (Reisekrankenversicherung).

Stiftung WarenTest reports them as being TOP of the pile, but
I have never claimed though.

Works for me with several trips abroad over the year.
by hh-sailor
Tue Oct 01, 2024 3:21 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: German word of the day
Replies: 83
Views: 78970

Re: German word of the day

Wandering around a furniture shop the other day, I couldn't understand the description of a sofa with " Nosagunterfederung ". The mixture of English and Deutsch threw my comprehension out until my wife spotted that the sofa will not sag and has a collection of springs in its base to help w...
by hh-sailor
Sun Sep 15, 2024 10:57 am
Forum: Volt, Ampere & Watt
Topic: Low voltage current on outer surface of Floor lamp
Replies: 7
Views: 2557

Re: Low voltage current on outer surface of Floor lamp

A fuse will only blow if it overloads. That is long after you're dead. Only there to protect the equipment/wiring What you are demonstrating is a failed RCD (Germans say FI Schalter). This should break the circuit if a tiny residual current leaks to earth. This protects you!! Urgently get the landlo...
by hh-sailor
Thu Sep 05, 2024 12:02 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: What got you flummoxed today?
Replies: 109
Views: 56508

Re: What got you flummoxed today?

I also wonder if proof reading is now only done by AI.
by hh-sailor
Thu Sep 05, 2024 12:00 pm
Forum: Traveling in Europe
Topic: Temporary car insurance for a car with US license plates
Replies: 12
Views: 5161

Re: Temporary car insurance for a car with US license plates

At those prices, wouldn't it be cheaper / easier to rent over here?
Additionally, the rented car wouldn't be so obvious (so less risky)

Just my thoughts...
by hh-sailor
Wed Aug 07, 2024 5:03 pm
Forum: Health insurance
Topic: Hausarzt: some of them have "dr." in front of the name, some not
Replies: 8
Views: 3831

Re: Hausarzt: some of them have "dr." in front of the name, some not

A Dr. has written a thesis and has gained the qualification 'Doctor' It could be maths or English or whatever. Or in your case a medical Doctor. Passing the exams to be allowed to practice medicine in Germany is enough. Aside: In the UK I was treated by Dr. Smith. But the consultant surgeon was Mr. ...
by hh-sailor
Sun Aug 04, 2024 4:54 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: What Made You Laugh Today
Replies: 581
Views: 214790

Re: What Made You Laugh Today

https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/coming42/10385844/233428/233428_600.jpg This is exactly how an external consultant spoke at my kid's school some 10yrs ago. He was reported to the police by some kids (police of course warned beforehand). Reported to school staff by other kids. The point was however ...
by hh-sailor
Tue Jul 23, 2024 9:45 am
Forum: Health insurance
Topic: PKV -> GKV after UK retirement age and Brexit
Replies: 7
Views: 3817

Re: PKV -> GKV after UK retirement age and Brexit

Many thanks, Panda for the explicit and complete answer. Yes, I have a German pension. So my chance getting the NHS to pay my German GKV are now zero. I have to work out if a sojourn in Ireland or the Netherlands would be possible or even worthwhile. Thanks again for the details...even though not wh...
by hh-sailor
Mon Jul 22, 2024 6:40 pm
Forum: Health insurance
Topic: PKV -> GKV after UK retirement age and Brexit
Replies: 7
Views: 3817

PKV -> GKV after UK retirement age and Brexit

To clarify PKV = Private Krankenversicherung (Private Health Insurance) GKV = Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung (Statutory Health Insurance) I am privately insured and want to change to statutory health insurance. So I took out private health insurance some 20 years ago for all sorts of reasons. I'm n...
by hh-sailor
Sun Jul 21, 2024 1:02 pm
Forum: Accommodation
Topic: buying house with credit
Replies: 16
Views: 5814

Re: buying house with credit

If there is a lump sum coming your way in those 10 yrs, then arrange before you sign the mortgage that early repayments are allowed. That way any windfalls can be used to lower your borrowed capital thus reducing monthly payment. eg aging aunt or whoever inheritance, bonus from work. Costs a little ...