So hot and humid just now, hoping for a rain storm so I can lie outside in it. Went to see KMFDM last night, they were absolutely amazing, lots of old stuff as well as some tracks off the new album. Free Your Hate, World War III and Saft and Kraft were my highlights, but really it was all great! Support band Patenbrigade Wolff made fun listening ( Read more... )

I can't believe its so long since I last looked in here, time just goes so fast when you're having fun! After the long grey Berlin winter, spring has been so glorious, I feel like a four year old getting excited about so many new things! Reading a friends blog earlier, she documented that the sun finally came out in Berlin on Monday March 30th at ( Read more... )

This year seems to have been full of snow and, hmmm its snowing again. I have 4 very pissed off cats who desperately want to go run around outside, but they really don't like snow or getting wet cold paws. One decided to be a little brave but for 2 minutes only!

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Generally I love snow, Monday morning I was walking round with big grin on my face enjoying the sight of the most white stuff I've seen in years.Snow and sun - perfect for walking out in, some piccies from earlier this week:

We did a long walk Monday round lakes near where we live. First was Liepnitzsee

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So long since I logged in here again - somehow time goes so fast when you have nothing much to do. Nothing much - visited loads of christmas markets, had another load of visitng relatives, took relatives to loads of christmas markets. I have done good research into gluhwein at the markets, there is a great varience to be had, favourite so far is in ( Read more... )

For some years now I have had a strange urge to visit Plänterwald, Spreepark, the abandoned amusement park on the edge of Berlin. For some reason a disused overgrown park with toppled dinosaurs has a strong attraction - finally, I'm going!!! Hopefully - I know it has a high fence round it, supposedly not to be entered but we'll see ( Read more... )

Time seems to have gone very fast since we moved here, about 5 weeks ago now. In other ways it feels like I have been here forever. But now it is starting to feel like we live here - I stopped having to remind myself when walking through Berlin that I don't have to go home in a few days ( Read more... )

We've been in our new home now for just three weeks and already feel well settled. The journey over wasn't so traumatic as expected, cat drugs worked so well. The first day of travelling was 9 hours driving, but with a journey through the channel tunnel included. When we set off all the cats were meaowing constantly, the tom cat shit in his carrier ( Read more... )

Things have been progressing faster than we expected the past few weeks. After our meeting at the notarys office, we had übergabetag 1 week later. I flew to Berlin, met up with the estate agent and got the keys to our house! So now its technically ours although we still have to be registered in the German land registry to be real owners. But, we ( Read more... )

Last week we spent a few days back in Berlin. First night we stayed in a hotel close to the house we're buying (they had the most incredible black beer in the bar, we drank way too much!), it gave us chance to look around the area lots and see how the people were too. Luckily we still loved it! We explored around the place, lots of woodland to play ( Read more... )