It was the gallery weekend and my friend had lots of interesting places for us to discover. One was in “my” district. A place many people in Berlin don’t consider living. Ha! I had no idea what to expect which is the best for a city excursion – love to go on excursions ever since…
Month: May 2016
Schlachtensee the Rowboat the Lake and Us …. / Berlin has beautiful lakes
And on Sunday, she said, we will go to Schlachtensee. Which by the way is her most favorite lake. The weather was picture book like and it took us not long to get there – almost to easy if I may say so. And so we went with 2 bottles of water, 3 towels and…
Amazing Discovery / “No I wasn’t allowed to study!” 😂 meet my talented friend!!!
Over 13 years ago, when I returned to Germany I thought that it was the right time to get a real nice sofa. So I got myself a what I consider a real nice sofa. I bought it in Frankfurt, it got made in Italy delivered to Hamburg and relocated with me to Munich and…
Confusion (mis) Perception Clarification / I like the “Game” & Hermes
“Yes, I can see you like Asian things”. – selfconfident: “It’s like what you have in your hair!” I guess he meant my barrett. “Well actually it’s French.” I took the hairslide off (hi hi i have long hair..), showed it to him and continued: ” Don’t you think Hermes makes beautiful products?” He replied:”…
“What happened?” “Oh fire, all burned but only storage!!”
I could see the wads of smoke from home…scary. Actually you could see it from far away… I received a message from a friend telling me that my most favourite Vietnamese Center is burning asking if I am in Berlin…. It started to burn at 9am in the morning and you can still see the…
Calm / peaceful and simply nice – lovely short break
After a lovely 1 1/2 train ride from Nice I arrived at Imperia. From their it is little under 30 min. by car (25 km). A village with around 1.400 inhabitants (in 1861 approx. 4.360) who are actively (!) with a lot of passion participating to make it a nice place to be: welcome to…
Size matters / Amazing Discovery / Collegiata S. Giovanni Battista
I decided to walk around and explore the neighbourhood a bit. The weather was beautiful and so was the church. I seriously had no idea what to expect when I entered……. Hear say: In the year 1234 the first parts were built! Latest studies declare that the build started 1333 (gravestone news!). Originally the church…
Let’s go Italy / Europe is great
My friends invited me to spend the weekend with them in lovely Italy. They bought a 14th century house in a 14th century village. Almost needless to say that needed to be explored, visited and embraced.The beauty of Europe is to get to most places without big hazzle and in a timely manner to be…
” I am joining a Cooking class.” ” Nice, what are you cooking?” “Salad!” ??
“Join us for another Cookhouse at Cecconi´s, this time focussing on perfect spring salads. Space is limited, so sign up quickly.” Ok, sounds good and why not? My friends laughed at me: who actually needs a cooking class for salads? Well it got even better: we a group of 4 didn’t need to do anything….
Paris & Uber and me
Just landed in Paris. Standard routine: Uber. “Madame you need a taxi.” “Yes calling an Uber.” “!?? !!l” looking with a shaking head at some other guys waiting, brief exchange, he looked at me again:”‘Forbidden! Not good.” “I know same in Germany: forbidden and not good!” 🙂 He turned around to the guys asking, talking,…
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