Cathy Dobson has been living in Germany for over 15 years.
Five years ago she and a German business partner set up a consulting business from the former pigsty of the old farmhouse where she lives with her husband, three children and an ever fluctuating number of cats.
Cathy Dobson is the author of Planet Germany, a crazy tale of an ex pat’s adventures settling into the Rhineland in Germany.
20 Comments
February 28, 2008 at 8:42 pm
I would like to email you a specific question about curry of all things but not sure if you want the whole complicated question in your comments section. Do you have an email address that I can use to contact you?
March 1, 2008 at 10:01 am
I emailed you the recipe you’re looking for – I think it’ll give the result you’re looking for!
March 9, 2008 at 12:15 am
March 19, 2008 at 5:11 pm
So cute! Are you looking for homes for them eventually? Anywhere in the Cologne area?
March 19, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Hi Missyj,
Yes… at least for some of them. They’re all male.
Are you interested?
Cathy
April 11, 2008 at 12:55 am
Hi there,
I’ve added you to the feed aggregator on my blog.
You may get some click from it.
Tim
April 27, 2008 at 3:48 am
Dear Cathy
I saw your query on Toytown and also read the review on Planet Germany in the WT. I’m definitely going to get a copy: Do you know where I can get the best price?
I like your website very much. I’ve tried to do something a little similar myself, aimed at English learners and fellow teachers.
I’d be interested to know who did your website. I need to call in a good webcrafter, someone who can take on the tech side of mine as that’s really letting it down at the moment.
If you could drop me a line with a suggestion, maybe also let me know what you think of some of the content on Know Howe, I’d be very grateful.
I promise you feedback on your book in returm!
Best
Tim Howe
April 27, 2008 at 4:33 am
Hi Tim,
If you live in Germany, Planet Germany is available either on Amazon (via various resellers – but pick a UK based one if you don’t want to be hit for high postage) and even better, Buch7.
http://www.amazon.de/Planet-Germany-Cathy-Dobson/dp/1906210489/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1196850503&sr=8-1
https://www.buch7.de/
Right now Buch7 has the cheapest price AND as they give 50% of their profit to good causes, you can feel smug while you shop! Can’t say fairer than that!
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May 8, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Great blog, I added you on my blogroll on http://www.d-usa.info. I am a German living in the USA, and I always love to read what expats living in Germany think about my old home.
May 18, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Hello Cathy
Hope you remember me, it’s Shelley from all those years ago! Was doing some surfing and stubbled across your book. Definitely going to get a copy – cant believe you have been in Germany for 15 years now
Congratulations on the success.
All the best, Shelley
May 30, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Hallo Cathy,
just to let you know that I have written a review of your great book on my little blog.
See http://auftakt.blogspot.com/2008/05/planet-germany-lol.html
Tschüss!
May 30, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Hallo Cathy,
just to let you know I have reviewed your book on my little blog.
http://auftakt.blogspot.com/2008/05/planet-germany-lol.html
Tschüss!
p.s. sorry if I’ve sent this to you twice; my cat decided to cuddle up to me whilst I’m trying to type!
September 23, 2008 at 2:42 pm
I lived in Germany for 20 years…….I miss it still! Great to read your blog, but it makes me homesick! I lived and worked in and around Heidelberg, where are you?
November 20, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Hey Cathy, I’m waiting your second book!
And my Planet Germany book still somewhere out there since many people queuing to borrow it, doh!
January 30, 2009 at 6:49 am
I visited Munich for Oktoberfest in 2000 and LOVED it!
I’m a proud Germanophile.:-)
February 7, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Great blog and very interesting! I’ll be an expat soon, God Willing. I’m in the US but to Morocco in a short while where I’m marrying a gorgeous Berber man there.
Sun, warmth and NO SNOW!! Can’t beat it. He said he’ll handle any scorpions or camels that come near me. 
Found you on Condron. Nice to meet you!
Dee
http://iadiedee.wordpress.com
February 15, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Hello, I’ve added your blog to my favourites so I can visit again, I enjoyed reading it
March 12, 2009 at 2:49 am
Hey there… just wanted to give you props, like everyone else seems to have! You’re on my favorites, and its a good read all the time… Nice to see things i can possibly relate to, as I’m moving to Köln in August!
Catchya later,
Zac
http://zacsstrokes.wordpress.com
March 17, 2009 at 11:49 am
Hello Cathy
I’m really enjoying your posts about life in Germany – the fast food video is priceless!
I also wanted to contact you about a survey Marks & Spencer are running exclusively for British expats – is there an email I could send the details to?
Best wishes
Kevin (on behalf of M&S)
September 30, 2009 at 8:43 am
Dear Cathy,
I found your blog and lots of information about your book during my online research on expatriates in Germany.
Since you seem to be a bit of an expert on the expat experience here in Germany, I’d very much like to introduce Internations.org — a Munich-based global network for people living and working abroad — to you. Maybe you could recommend it as a resource to your readers.
InterNations.org is the global networking site with over 230 local communities and more than 120,000 members. We’d especially like to point out our live events in ca. 100 cities worldwide, including major German cities such as Berlin, Hamburg and Munich, meant to bring expats from all nations and locals together and help expatriates and their families to settle in.
For this reason, we believe that your readers might benefit from knowing about us. We’d like to kindly ask you to place a link to our homepage on your blog. Of course, you are cordially invited to register with us and have a look at our network. The registration process is free of charge and will only take a few minutes.
You can get in touch with me via e-mail (m[dot]grobbel[at]internations[dot]org). I’m really looking forward to hearing from you.
Best,
Margit
Margit Grobbel
Senior Content Editor & Corporate Communications
http://www.internations.org