Germany + Australia + Culture + Motherhood + Home
Back in Sydney, Travel + Life Abroad
I don’t tend to watch travel programs, quite like I don’t tend to read travel blogs. For some bizarre reason, consuming anything that falls into the very genre I tend… Continue Reading
Just last night, I was talking with a friend of mine who lives in Hong Kong and had popped back to Sydney this week for a little surprise visit. She… Continue Reading
Rothenburg, Travel + Life Abroad
Upon deciding we would journey to Kupferzell this past Wednesday, SG promptly planned a second ‘surprise’ element to the day. We would drive to another place after Kupferzell, one I… Continue Reading
The other day, Silke, my wonderful friend from Münster, asked me what I thought I would be doing if I had never travelled and, as a consequence, never moved to… Continue Reading
Life in Weiden, Pictures, Travel + Life Abroad
A sunny Friday led to a vanilla frappe and walk around what I have now taken to calling Weiden’s Central Park, despite it having the perfectly good name of ‘Max… Continue Reading
Today I am taking you to Greece. It feels utterly perfect to write that because there is the warmest breeze drifting in through my window and the sunlight today is… Continue Reading
Life in Weiden, Pictures, Travel + Life Abroad
Weiden seems intent on worming its way into my affections. It just gets cuter by the day. It could be the infectious happiness Spring brings with it or it could… Continue Reading
Life in Weiden, Travel + Life Abroad
In keeping with a recent decision to make the most of this town, because it won’t be forever, and acknowledging a continued attraction to lakes , yesterday we went swimming. The… Continue Reading
Travel + Life Abroad, Travel: Germany
Last week, biscuit in hand, brötchen in belly and face smeared with the remnants of another chocolate themed post-dinner treat, I hit a wall. I ran into that sucker chocolatey… Continue Reading
Life in Weiden, Pictures, Travel + Life Abroad
For a while now, I have harboured a secret desire to eat lunch by a lake. I’m not entirely sure why, I suspect it concerns being an Aquarian with nary… Continue Reading
Sometimes, caught up in thinking about where I have been, where I come from and where I would like to go, I neglect to consider where I am. This is… Continue Reading
Travel + Life Abroad, Travel: Greece
I am missing the island today. Not just its blue skies, the heat and clear, flat water – although I miss that too – but its island-ness. Its sense of… Continue Reading
The best thing about visits to Kiel – quite apart from SG’s lovely family and his mother’s extraordinary smelling towels – is being by the sea. The sound of gulls,… Continue Reading
Something you hear often, when living away from home, family and friends, is ‘don’t worry, nothing around here ever changes.’ It is said, usually in soothing tones, in response to a… Continue Reading
If there was ever a beautiful, wealthy European city, rich with history and chock full of impossibly well groomed citizens driving big, shiny, expensive cars, it is Bavaria’s capital, Munich…. Continue Reading
Pictures, Pilsen, Travel: Czech Republic
Yesterday, temperatures hit 20 degrees. In celebration of life reentering this hemisphere, I did two things; wore a skirt (a long one, my legs are not public-ready yet) and we… Continue Reading
*** This post is sponsored by Markco Media Ltd . No that does not change my writing style, yes the product is relevant to me (and you). *** Now that… Continue Reading
Brussels, Travel + Life Abroad
Turns out waking up at 4am on a Saturday off the back of 50 hour working week feels about as good as it should. Coffee can’t go down fast enough… Continue Reading
Life in Münster, Travel + Life Abroad
Below is the original post. It has since been updated and republished. Find the full list HERE. Here are some things about Germany and its inhabitants I have noticed …… Continue Reading