Decades From Home - A Podcast About Germany
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Decades From Home - A Podcast About Germany
With over two decades of living in Germany between them, Nic and Dili, host a podcast about Germany filled with news, articles, and stories that show the many different sides to German life.
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Episode 250: Endstation, Tschüsseldorf
Well, here we are then, the end. After 250 episodes and almost 5 years of podcasts, the curtains close on the old Decades from Home stage. Before we w...
Episode 249: Vorletzte Haltestelle
Kicking off our penultimate episode in style, we have a listener email to pore over as we discuss the curiously creepy phrasing to be found in German....
Episode 248: Rainer vs the Machine
It’s never too early to start the festive cheer, and with Christmas biscuits hitting the shelves, Simon’s pleased for early Plätzchen. We take a tour...
Episode 247: Farmer Drama
Despite decades of living in Germany between us, there is always a cultural error to be made, as Producer Simon discovers this week. After a slightly...
Episode 246: The Sprudelwasser Express
We’ve discussed the topic of integration on the podcast more than a few times over the five years of the show, but how integrated do your hosts feel n...
Episode 245: Champagne & Kia-Ora
We’ve always wondered what it’s like to rub shoulders with the great and good, and thankfully for us Simon’s here to tell us as he enjoys the corporat...
Episode 244: Goon Squad
It may not feel like a year, but apparently it’s time once again for Germany to go full crazy for Jugendwort des Jahres 2025!!! We look at the runners...
Episode 243: Handybitch
What’s the definition of bravery? Surely it’s living in Germany and answering the phone to unknown numbers. It can be panic inducing, but it might be...
Episode 242: Tanks vs Castles
As summer continues to cut a rug through to August, we talk tourist sites, and three in particular: Neuschwanstein, Herrenchiemsee and Linderhof. Why...
Episode 241: Porzellan Prince
There are many ways to have the perfect summer, and Nic has landed on his perfect recipe. All he needs is a few beer tents, some schlager, and the cle...
Episode 240: Animal + Verb
Living in Germany as long as we have, you sometimes forget how German things can be. As Nic finds out, all it takes is a quick reminder, or the mere m...
Episode 239: Legumes for Days
For good or for ill, Germany has reputation for steely seriousness, but if we’ve learned anything living here for as long as we have, it’s that reputa...
Episode 238: Hitze spitze
It might feel like stating the obvious, but it’s been fairly warm this week in Germany, which means a little more of the weird and wonderful than usua...
Episode 237: Ramble On, Moose!
This is usually a podcast about Germany, but after a trip to Strasbourg, Nic’s a hare’s breadth from trying to turn this podcast all French with his g...
Episode 236: All Cats Are Beautiful
Known for his formidable producing powers, the aptly named Producer Simon is also something of a travel expert, or at least he’s gone on holiday a lot...
Episode 235: Audere est facere
In order to ensure our darling Producer Simon made it on his holiday, we recorded a number of episodes back to back, but we may have forgottten when t...
Episode 234: Viva Volksdöner
This is a podcast about Germany, so you might assume some of that fabled Germanic organisation might have rubbed off on us. Well…sort of, but all the...
Episode 233: Merzer, Better, Faster, Stronger
Having missed Eurovision last week, Simon brings in a special guest reporter to remedy that situation as we discuss politics, Pride flags, and Celine...
Episode 232: Beerenverbände Ultras
No one’s entirely sure how, but Producer Simon has managed to wrangle himself a holiday. Though he’d hoped for sunnier climes, the discovery that he c...
Episode 231: RudeGebiet
Of all the things Simon could have hoped to find on his morning walk to the local Bäckerei, terrifying omens of impending doom would be low on the lis...
Episode 230: Liebesübungen
Nothing can stop this podcast, aside from a few technical glitches, and maybe some seriously surprising weather conditions. All it takes is one hot da...
Episode 229: Bobby Big Bollocks
After flying around the world visiting New Zealand, Producer Simon lands on the podcast with the perfect mix of exhaustion and airport based fury. Nic...
Episode 228: Zorb Lawd
With all the Easter eggs collected, and chocolate wrappers still littering the floor, Nic & Simon discuss their respective Easter weekends. While Simo...
Episode 227: Puff Puff Pass(Over)
As Germany celebrates Easter, little do they know that the future is rushing towards them in the form of new rules about passport photos! Okay, maybe...
Episode 226: Spite Fence
Once again, Germany is preparing to celebrate the world’s worst vegetable as Spargelzeit begins in earnest across the 16 Bundesländer, and two thirds...
Episode 225: Broken Republik
As regular listeners know, we’re all about the positivity on this here podcast. OK, maybe not Nic, but Simon’s usually fairly positive…or maybe it’s j...
Episode 224: OK, Let's Go
There’s a lot of good vibes flying around the podcast this week. Producer Simon is quietly delighted with New Zealand’s sporting endeavours, but the r...
Episode 223: Fender Bender
After a good few weeks of hard podcasting work, it’s time for a holiday, but not just any holiday. No, we need something special, something specific,...
Episode 222: Sülze im Kopf
There’s a beautiful bit of symmetry this week as we begin where we left off last week on topic of kebabs, although these ones have nothing to do with...
Episode 221: Mukibude Boys
Finally free from covering the Federal Election, we head into less controversial waters this week, by asking which is the correct term: Karneval or Fa...
Episode 220: All Kane, No Pain
If there’s one thing we’re all about on this here podcast, it’s fulfilling dreams. Ok, maybe seeing Bayern Munich isn’t exactly fulfilling a dream, bu...
Episode 219: Quadrell Hell
Despite the fact we’ve only recorded the podcast in the same room once in 219 episodes, that doesn’t mean we should be lax on health and safety. That’...
Episode 218: Scrub the Jetty
It’s bloody typical, isn’t it? You wait around for Germany’s most expensive property to go on the market and then two come along at once! Following la...
Episode 217: Werner in the Jungle
It’s not often that a bit of random doom scrolling leads to a nice chat, but thanks to Simon’s algorithm, a forgotten Werner Herzog clip gives us our...
Episode 216: Brandmauer Trauer
The end of a gloomy January beckons, but despite the dark cold evenings, Producer Simon did the podcast proud by wrapping himself up and going to watc...
Episode 215: Awengers Assemble
There’s a lot of news going round in Germany at the moment, so sometimes we miss a few stories, but we rectify a massive error in the running order la...
Episode 214: Polka Town
After his triumphant return to the podcast last, Simon is settling in nicely, so much so he takes the reins of the podcast to bring us a segment on th...
Episode 213: Prodigal Fun
It’s the first pod of 2025, and boy is it a doozy! Among the new year’s well wishes, we also have a few changes to mention, as co-hosts Kat and Dili t...
Episode 212: New year, New Du
It’s a brand new year, which necessitates some deep soul searching on the podcast this week as we try and remember our personal highlights from the la...
Episode 211: Nach Weihnachten
It’s that wonderful time between Christmas and New Year, where time has no meaning, and we’re all surviving off of the last of the Plätzchen and whate...