A Gluttonous Goodbye
One general rule of thumb that has served me well over the past few years, is there is no better way to farewell a place, than an eating tour. Take… Continue Reading
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Life in Weiden, Travel + Life Abroad, Travel: Germany
Of Corners & Vulnerable Apartments
It’s funny what suddenly clicks when a place you have been wanting to leave, becomes a place you will leave very soon. It’s as if, up until that moment, you… Continue Reading
Life in Weiden, Travel + Life Abroad
Spring Cleaning
It is the most glorious weather. 15 degrees (sixteen some days!) sunny, blue skies. The park’s grass is green and gold and purple and white, all the bulbs arriving early after… Continue Reading
Life in Weiden, Travel + Life Abroad
The Satisfying Things About Coming Home
I love coming home after a long trip away. Love it. Love greeting the apartment, sorting through the mail, even though most of it is bills, bills, bills. Sometimes there’s… Continue Reading
Kiel, Life in Weiden, Travel + Life Abroad, Travel: Germany
To the Sea
We’re moving again. The Bavarian chapter is coming to a close, and we’re heading back up north. We don’t know exactly when, but it will be soon after returning from Australia,… Continue Reading
Life in Weiden, Travel + Life Abroad, Travel: Germany
Slide
It has been a quiet, mild slide into the new year. In fact, it has been a very mild winter. 2014 has opened with 5 degree days, nights only falling to… Continue Reading
Life in Weiden, Travel + Life Abroad, Travel: Germany
The Griswalds are Back
The last time my parents were in Germany, it was December 2010, and I had just moved to Münster. I had also managed to come down with some sort of… Continue Reading
Life in Weiden, Nürnberg, Travel: Germany
Big City Gefühl
Living, as we do, in a relatively small town – around 40,000 people, if you count the surrounds – there are some things city-dwellers take for granted that we don’t… Continue Reading
Life in Weiden, Travel + Life Abroad
The Diet (and Pant Size) Adjustment
Since moving to Germany, there are several items that have asserted themselves as staples of my diet. Items that, when I lived in Australia, weren’t all that prominent. Items that,… Continue Reading
Bilingual Posts Challenge, Life in Weiden
Oh Tannenbaum, Oh Tannenbaum
Look what has popped up in the Weiden town centre! Guck was in der Altstadt aufgetaucht ist! No lights or decorations yet, but we have time. A little bit of time…. Continue Reading
Life in Weiden, Travel + Life Abroad
The Survival Plan
So determined am I to break through the final frontier – accepting the German Winter – that I have become obsessed with ways to not only survive the colder months,… Continue Reading
Life in Weiden, Travel + Life Abroad
Daylight Fading
The clocks turned back an hour on Saturday night, and we all slid a little closer to Winter. As if to sound the WINTER IS COMING horn, Sunday dawned damp… Continue Reading
Sunday Strolls
With another brother in town – SG’s this time – days have been filled with cooking, eating, baking, eating, and binge-watching American Horror Story. Save for a trip into the… Continue Reading
Bilingual Posts Challenge, Life in Weiden, Travel + Life Abroad
Hibernation // Winterschlaf
It’s darker in the mornings now, the wet roads reflecting headlights as cars whoosh through puddles, and evening makes her presence felt around half past four. Half past four. Not half… Continue Reading
Life in Weiden, Nürnberg, Travel + Life Abroad
‘Weiden’s Actually Really Nice’
So said my brother, often, over the few days he was here. He’s right – it is actually a lovely little town, Weiden, it’s just that, given our funny relationship… Continue Reading
Bilingual Posts Challenge, Life in Weiden
A Brother in Town // Ein Bruder in der Stadt
My brother is in town. He flew in this week for a few days in Bavaria, before heading to London. Both SG and I, who otherwise spend a lot of time in… Continue Reading
Bilingual Posts Challenge, Life in Weiden, Travel + Life Abroad
Autumn // Herbst
Autumn, is that you? You snuck in the back gate, didn’t you, clipping an hour or so of light from the evenings, pulling armfuls of red leaves down from the… Continue Reading
Life in Weiden, Travel + Life Abroad
Positive Filters
Perhaps it’s time we had a chat about Weiden in der Oberpfalz, or, as the Weidenites like to call it, The Max Reger Stadt. Max Reger actually grew up and composed… Continue Reading
Life in Kiel, Life in Weiden, Travel + Life Abroad
Of Pickled Fish & Weißwurst
Schleswig-Holstein, of which Kiel is the capital, was the third state I have had the pleasure of calling home in this Around Germany in an Unspecified Amount of Days ride… Continue Reading
Life in Weiden, Travel + Life Abroad
Where You Live
Down here, as well as staring out the window and eyeing the incessant church bells beadily, I spend a lot of time thinking about home. Not Australia, although when the… Continue Reading