I like being an Expat for the most part, but those who haven’t dipped a toe into life abroad can never underestimate the extra pressures that we find ourselves under at certain times of year (she says with tongue ever so slightly in cheek!) – such as Carnival/Karneval/Fasching/Fastelavn/Mardi Gras or Shrove Tuesday to give it […]
Dutch Masters and Stroopwafel Blackmail – Amsterdam
I can’t quite decide what position I would put Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum into in my list of top ten art galleries of all time, but it would probably have to be in the top three – after Louisiana and Tate Britain… We spent the best part of a day there recently during a trip to Holland’s […]
Sunday Photo – Ice Trees
Ice Trees, Bavaria
Two Serious Museums and a Kimchee Princess – Berlin
Deliberated over from the comfort of her temporary bedroom in our cosy communist era Berlin apartment (whilst I pondered the all important matter of where we should eat dinner!), a certain history enthusiast in our family decided on two museums to visit in one day, both with much more serious collections for inspection, after the previous […]
Sunday Photo – Frauenkirche
Munich’s Frauenkirche in Winter sunlight…