One of the things that I have always adored being able to do here on No Ordinary Homestead is to reward my readers with all sorts of goodies to let you know how much I appreciate that you keep coming back to NOH and share what’s on your mind with me. In the past, I […]

The weekend before last, we were invited to the housewarming party for an old friend who we haven’t seen much of since he moved to Berlin a few years ago. As it turns out, he and a couple of his friends decided to do the unthinkable and bought an old farm. The place has a […]

If you are still hiding money from the IRS in a one or more overseas accounts, you should know that stiffer penalties and new international precedence have been put into place that may make you change your mind. I.J. Zemelman, EA from Taxes for Expats offered to help break it down. The company helps expatriates all over the world deal with […]

 As the financial capital of Germany, Frankfurt often gets a bad rap for being boring, expensive and ugly. Now I know I’ve not always written the nicest things about Hessen and the people that live there, but I also know that many people end up there because of their jobs and they really don’t have […]

When we moved over to Germany 11 years ago, we had already started several businesses (being the crafty entrepreneurs that we are) and didn’t have any thoughts of closing them down just because we were moving. Thankfully, we had family back in the US who could help us with order processing since shipping things to […]