InterNations and Blogging

Wiesbaden from Neroberg

When I realised that I would be moving back to Germany from the UK in February, I decided to do an internet search of what expat groups were available in the area. At the time I was not sure if we would end up in Maiz or Wiesbaden, the two cities on opposite sides of the Rhine River. In fact the two cities are both the capital cities of two different German provinces. Wiesbaden is the capital of Hessen while Mainz in the capital of Rheinland-Pfalz (unpronounceable in English as Rhineland-Palatinate). As it turned out we ended up in Wiesbaden.

I discovered Internations.org who hold meet up covering both cities. There is a free membership as well as a premium service which costs a few Euros a month. InterNations, apart from having regular meetings for members to get to know each other, has a premium service allowing you to access useful information about the country you are moving to. This is no doubt a very useful service, as they say forearmed is forewarned. You need to know things like were to register your car, how do you separate your recycling, what about liability insurance?

To be honest I have not made it to any of the meetings as yet. But I am well informed of when things are happening. It was a nice touch to receive a birthday email recently from InterNations. I know I said in a previous post it should be a real card, but not in this case. For those who would like to accuse me of inconsistencies in my story telling. When you move to a new country it is good to know that others have similar issues. Yes, yes I have lived in Germany before Wiesbaden so knew what to expect, but always life in hope of meeting some interesting people. Who knows it might still happen one day.

A number of InterNations members maintain blogs of their travels and experiences, which if not always directly relevant to me, makes interesting reading. Lets me see how they are developing there web presence. It is for this reason that I have decided to have my blog added to the list of InterNations Recommended Blogs, [I think this is a membership site]. Who knows maybe something I write may be helpful to someone moving to Wiesbaden or even Germany. At least they will get to read something from what I hope is a slightly different perspective - to the usual expats - and I will reach a wider audience.