This morning a rainbow appeared. It wasn’t raining where I was and the sky was cloud-free everywhere but directly around the rainbow. Despite trying various positions, I couldn’t find one suitable for getting a picture of the whole curve – this was the most I could get on the screen of my phone at once. […]
Hope you are all celebrating in a manner you approve of 🙂
If anyone wants any glass decorations for next year.. Just ask 🙂
There was a plan for them to be more obviously swirly (I even added contrasting chocolate chips to each mixture) but I seem to have forgotten how easily colours mix together and become sludgy – it’s obviously been too long since I last played with playdoh…
Mother: what are we going to play on the plane? Very little kid: I want to play hide-and-seek!
I try to make mincemeat in the middle of November. That gives it time to do its thing for a month or so before it’s needed. This year…somehow didn’t happen, which is why I’m making it now, less than a week before Christmas. Browsing the web for spice ratios, I came across a recipe for […]
I usually like doing things in my own way. However, even I must admit that sometimes ‘normal’ is normal for a reason. In this case, there are probably better ways to open yoghurt pots…
Flying really late at night after everyone else has gone home has some advantages.. Mostly that everything is empty and none of the shops try to sell you things.
My brother and I wandered out of the shop and back to the car. I stand and wait for him to open it. My brother: *waiting for me to get in, looks round* Uh.. This one’s mine… *points* Me: … Turns out I’d been waiting to get into the driver’s door of the car next […]
It’s the last day of my holiday and I’m on a train back home. Just one (three counting the local trains at each end) with no changes between Düsseldorf and Berlin (which is a very good thing considering how much luggage I have* and how often the lifts are broken). Besides being tired and achy […]
I was recently in Girona on my way from Murcia towards Berlin. Girona is a really pretty city, at least what I saw in the 17 or so hours I was there. Much friendlier than Barcelona and much less scary to walk around at night. I wandered between the old old houses and shops, admiring […]
My phone is striking. Apps stop working mid-process, the map doesn’t know where I am, messages don’t send, emails don’t load, the camera won’t take pictures. It’s a pain. Especially when I still have a weekend left on the road (/rails) and a million photo opportunities. The sun’s out, autumn is well and truly here […]
Written on Nov 8th 2018. Mostly. The draft was saved on the 21st (also Nov ’18) Found and backposted on Nov 4th 2021. New intro: I was on my way home from a holiday in France and Spain, staying in the AirBnB for the second time. The owner had let me leave my bike there […]
I moved to Germany to be an AuPair a couple of months over 13 years ago. I set out by myself with a suitcase and a backpack, flew a few hundred kilometres and got a bus and a train across Germany, in order to live with a family I hadn’t even heard of a week […]
There was an “antique” market held here today. When I think of antiques I usually think of expensive furniture. In this case the antiques were a mixture of things without any obvious age limit or theme. It was more like a sale of anything old enough and/or bizarre enough not to be wanted by the […]