First beer of the day and one I’ve never had before. Life is a (hiccup) adventure. #beer #schland #feierabend #sanwald

The view from the cafe.

I made it! 75 min walking at least half uphill and now I’m overlooking Stuttgart sweating balls, as we used to back in the hood. And I open.spotify.com/track/11DjZQ... got blasting in my ears. Pure summer vibes. Next stop, in search of a homemade lemonade.

The Monty Python outtake.

Today in fashion. #antifa #fckafd #stuttgart

One of the nicest stretches that wasn’t along the river. What a good first half of the day.

I’m new to the nationality but us Germans aren’t known for our color combination skills, are we?

Esslingen 🇩🇪 is a place I can recommend visiting after only being here 10 minutes haha

Today I’m going on an adventure, European-style. That means walking 15 min to the 🚂 , taking it 10-15 min to a village outside a notable city, wandering around its 🏰 and then I’m renting a 🚲 for the 50-minute ride back along the Neckar River. How would you spend the day?

I love that I learned to do guerilla sewing — enough to reapply buttons and close up minor holes. I ALWAYS use an “incorrect” color to remind myself I did that. It’s part of my old punk side about making your clothes unique so no one else is wearing what you’re wearing.

Here is a print of a local Laguna beach artist and it is also the closest beach to where my parents live. I loooove waking up and looking at this. If you’ve been there before, you can feel the weather in this painting and almost smell the ocean breeze. #Lagunabeach

It’s crazy how deeply invested this Californian-German is in figuring out how #Scotland makes it to the knock out rounds as a third place team. A few draws and losses by other key teams and they are in! Any other non-Scots out there rooting for them to make it? #worldcup

Got this stretch of the river under this bridge all to myself. Tunes playing, ass in a beach chair a couple inches into the water level, and a breeze. It’s time for a smoke. Here’s the playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/0A6...

My first dinner as a German? An ultra-American one, as it turns out: cheeseburgers with sautéed onions and mushrooms and peppers, corn on the cob and watermelon. Let’s get started!

My first full day being a German citizen and the national team is playing in a World Cup game? As my people say, “Fuck ja!”

First beer is in fact going down smooth.

Alter Verwalter.

Why yes, I am bringing a small fan and a #FCKNZS button to my naturalization ceremony. That’s how I roll, yo.

This is more important than the Czechia - South Africa game when it’s 35C and we live on the top floor. My ass is touching water and it’s glorious…

Today’s 🇩🇪 game will hopefully be my last time watching “die Mannschaft” as a foreigner. On Friday I am naturalizing as a German citizen & after that it will also be “my” country playing. Crazy right? As my British wife would say for some reason, “Leck mich am Damm.” #diemannschaft #florianwirtz #LFC

We woke up in a bubble tent. The bathroom is outside & you have to unzip the tent & zip it back up when you go out to pee. Proper little adventure, also considering we are a 25-min bike ride from home right now on a small lake. Had 1 beer too many but at least I didn’t pay for that one.

How awesome is this? My Mexican buddy came back from a visit home & got me a hat from his local team, Leon Los Bravos. We connect more through footy but he also talked about how northern Mexico is more baseball crazy and his dad liked Fernando Valenzuela. #dodgers #mexico #lmb A good start to the WC

I’m ready to watch a lot of good football the next weeks and for Mexico and Canada to look like world class countries to visit. I’m buzzen tonight I’ll be watching the game in Germany with 4-5 Mexicans to give it some real heft. Vive l‘Mexico! 🇲🇽

Bella Italia We have been making a playlist the past week if you wanna feel the vibe. open.spotify.com/playlist/7eA...

We did an 11-hour boat ride yesterday and here are a few moments of it. Visited Lipari, Panarea, and Stromboli, 3 islands of more or less never heard of. Today we are straight up chilling. My British wife on her second cappuccino instead of cuppa tea, that happens 2-3 times a year max haha

Post an album you’ve listened to 100 times.

We on an 11-hour boat ride to a couple islands and a volcano. Gonna try to wait til noon to get a cold beer. 2 hours and 8 minutes and counting…

Deep in Italy now, making a morning coffee. Today we have no plans but to explore some caves along the shore and go with the flow. Is there a better plan to have in southern Europe?

Couldn’t rent a boat because we wanted to drink. #bellaitalia #vacationproblems

The fourth picture for anyone demanding accountability. That kind of red onion is a specialty here. Delicious