I realised on Monday that we have been here for exactly three months!… A quarter of a year already! Sometimes it actually feels shorter than that, as there are still a fair few boxes lying around the place that need unpacking and sorting! And sometimes it feels as though we haven’t moved at all, […]
Sunday Photo – Psychedelic Eggs
Psychedelic Eggs! This is how they sell boiled eggs here in Germany. The closer it gets to Easter, the more colourful they get!
A Trip to the Tracht Shop…
“Of course you’re going to need to get a dirndl”. “A what sorry?” “A dirndl, you know the kind of dress that you see everyone wearing at the Oktoberfest?”. “Just to wear to Oktoberfest? What if I don’t go to Oktoberfest?” “Nooooo Emma, you will be wearing a dirndl lots of times. In your […]
The Cooper’s Dance…
The main reason that I was hanging around a snowy Munich square, was that I was waiting to witness the spectacle that is the Schäfflertanz (or The Cooper’s Dance), that takes place just before Carnival time once every seven years! Thought to originate in the 1500’s after the plague visited and decimated the local population, […]
Sunday Photo – Snow Bikes
Snow Bikes – Munich