Picture the scene, you are at Munich’s largest Christmas Market at Marienplatz. It’s around 3pm, the winter’s night is drawing in, and the lights of the Christmas stalls are beginning to glow. People are either perusing festive goods, or huddled together with groups of friends, chatting over steaming cups of gluhwein and egg-nog… In the […]
Expat
Three Years/Five Years
Flowers for a recent anniversary. Not of the wedding variety (that’s next week!), but for something else almost as important – to us anyway – the Five years since we left the UK, and for the 3 years now spent in Munich. If you ever need time to slow down and speed up in equal […]
Great British Cooking
Is there a better gift for a British Expat who has lived away from its shores for a while? This patriotic book contains every recipe you will have dreamt about, and plenty more besides. Some of which you might not have been that fond of before, but have developed strange cravings for since (that happens […]
Treasure – Sweden
It’s my pleasure to introduce my friend Heather, who I guess is my first real guest blogger! I met Heather when we lived in Denmark, and she’s still happily ensconced there. She’s completely larger than life, incredibly creative, and so far has had the best most varied career in fashion, art and design I think I have […]
Catching Up
Catching up with best friends… Apologies for the lack of frequent posts of late, things have been a little quiet on the blog front admittedly, but not without good reason. A ten-day trip home full of birthdays, a wedding, and celebrating the surprise and very welcome engagement of my baby sister, left little time for me to […]