Scones. Something English to celebrate us being here for 6 months. Six whole months! I can’t quite believe we have been here for half a year already! In our household, it is against the law not to celebrate such monumental occasions with cake. But what’s a scone without clotted cream? A cream tea without cream? […]
Sunday Photo – Reflection
Reflection – Munich
Maibaum Bavaria
Tuesday saw us attending our first Maibaum Fest (Maypole Festival). Nearly every town and village in Bavaria has a Maibaum, a vast usually stripey pole (in the Bavarian colours of course!) with its Pagan origins harking back to ancient times. They are quite hard to miss! They also serve as a kind of Bavarian Yellow […]
The Rodelbahn
On Saturday it felt like summer had arrived. At 30°C, it was almost too hot at times (sorry England, I know you have been suffering with your weather recently – no doubt you will send some of that rain our way soon enough!), so yesterday we set off to Schliersberg (a small mountain (compared to […]





