Our relocation agent contacted us last week with a reminder that we had an appointment at the Doctor’s. We are not sick, but apparently she felt it would be a good idea to go along and meet him before we were. Having been exposed to a few segments of German life that are a lot […]
Sledging Saturday (a trip to Wallberg)
I told you it wouldn’t be long before we were up some mountain again… I had thought we were just going for a drive on Saturday to the mountain region, to further investigate the best places to take The Small People for their first ski experience. How we ended up in a cable-car trundling […]
Sunday Photo – Prune Men
Bavarian Prune Men or Zwetschgenmännle, a good luck charm thought to originate in Nuremberg…
Out with the old…
Thankfully, the Christmas tree is finally down – something I have been itching to do for days. The poor thing didn’t apparently like underfloor heating, and ended up looking like something out of Jurassic Park! My inner superstitious fool didn’t want to take it down before 12th Night, especially as today is a special […]
Glücksschwein
Miniature marzipan pigs are given as gifts at New Years in Germany, to bring good luck in the year ahead. I am not sure why pigs are associated with luck here, but one theory is that in days gone by, if you had a pig to feed your family with, you were fortunate… But […]