British expat Simon muses about drift and determination in Munich’s expat circles and finds that many of his expat friends have decided not to move to the UK again once their job has come to an end. So what attracts a British expat to life in Germany? As I ordered a burrito in Taco Libre [...]
Filed under: Intercultural Differences on February 2nd, 2012 | No Comments »
This week sees the final round of introduction of our new Local Communities. Read on to find out more about the cities and the local InterNations crowd. Birmingham, UK With a population of over 1 million, Birmingham is second only to London in terms of numbers. The city has come a long way since spearheading [...]
Filed under: InterNations News on June 14th, 2011 | No Comments »
The Munich InterNations Community’s May Event took place at the stylish club P1. With 1,334 people on the guest list from 87 different nationalities – the highest number in InterNations history – the Event was quite a hit! Located behind the famous Munich Haus der Kunst, the P1 club is renowned among the party-loving Munich [...]
Filed under: InterNations News on May 31st, 2011 | No Comments »
InterNations co-founder Malte Zeeck visited the Duesseldorf Expat Community’s May Event in order to say goodbye to the Ambassadors and look around for potential new ones. He also met up with the Bonn Community Ambassador to chat about future Events. Read on to find out what he experienced! 185 members on the guest list is [...]
Filed under: InterNations News on May 24th, 2011 | No Comments »
Especially in Germany, we added a batch of several InterNations Local Communities about two weeks ago. In addition to splitting our previous Rhineland Community into three separate ones for the cities of Bonn, Cologne, and Dusseldorf, we also wanted to create a proper InterNations home for our members in some local groups based in southern [...]
Filed under: InterNations News on March 31st, 2011 | No Comments »
Rafaela, our social media marketing intern, attended her first InterNations event last week. It looks like she had a great time… Oh Baby! was my first InterNations event, and I’m sure I will never forget it. I am from Austria and moved to Munich in January, when I started my internship at InterNations. Since I [...]
Filed under: InterNations News on March 4th, 2011 | No Comments »
InterNations co-founder Malte Zeeck paid a visit to our Frankfurt Community last week – here are some of his impressions from his short trip: It’s only a three hour train ride from Munich, but Frankfurt – the financial and international hub of Germany – is completely different from the larger, yet more laid-back city near [...]
Filed under: InterNations News on January 25th, 2011 | No Comments »
It was indeed this popular Christmas hit that happened to be on the radio when all team members were crammed into the back of a rental mini-bus, heading for the Tegernsee, a lake resort and popular recreation area in the Bavarian Alps. The weather gods, however, didn’t need any extra encouragement. It had been snowing [...]
Filed under: InterNations News on December 16th, 2010 | No Comments »
Visiting one of our InterNations events in Munich always feels like playing on home turf to me. The local InterNations Community is big in numbers (we have almost ten thousand members in south-east Germany), and the members have a great community spirit, too. For the November Get-Together, we had to limit the guest list to [...]
Filed under: InterNations News on November 23rd, 2010 | No Comments »
Since our fast-growing international community went online almost exactly two years ago, on September 11 2007, both the InterNations team and its members around the world are looking forward to our second birthday party. Or, to be more precise, to our second anniversary parties. Of course, the main event is going to take place in [...]
Filed under: InterNations News on September 2nd, 2009 | 1 Comment »