Southern Rock in Northern Germany – Blackberry Smoke

We’ve been in Hannover last weekend to enjoy a concert of the US Rockband Blackberry Smoke. One good thing about unknown bands is, that you don’t need to be at the place hours before the … Read more

Easy walking in Bochum

There are still many prejudices that the region where are living right now, the “Ruhrgebiet”, is ugly grey and not attractive at all. My mom who spend some years of her childhood here, told me … Read more

The Botanical Garden Bochum

After we moved to the city of Bochum we now have totally different possibilities of things we can do (mostly on the weekends). We lived very rural before, right in the middle of Bremen, Hamburg … Read more

Photo walk: Zeche Ewald

One good thing about the year 2018 (despite many other things, just thinking of a dentist pulling out a tooth, instead of a vet ๐Ÿ˜‰ ) is that it’s easy to find other people with … Read more

Back to North Rhine Westphalia

Before I started blogging in 2012 we lived in Essen, North Rhine Westphalia. Then Canada was our home for some time, before we moved into the Lueneburger Heide in 2014. And now we are back … Read more

My Hometown

What does the word hometown actually mean to you? Is it the place where you live? The place where you were born? Or maybe where you just feel good? I think there is no right … Read more

Hamburg

After our cat is back home and I got my lens repaired back today, I am finally in the mood for a new blog post again ๐Ÿ™‚ . We’ve been in Hamburg lately for shopping … Read more

Flower power – Northern Germany is blooming

Actually we wanted to explore the neighbourhood by bike today. Unfortunately a flat tire made us return home within five minutes. Luckily we did not make it very far. I strolled through the neighbourhood instead … Read more

Catch some fresh air

Rain, snow wind and mud. During the last weeks the weathergod sent us everything, but no of sun. That’s how I start almost every blog post lately. But that’s January. And based on the motto … Read more

Hamburg Ottensen

The days are short and you really need to use every minute without rain to go outside Actually you can go out when it is raining as well. But that’s only working when your rain … Read more