Handball: Germany vs. Iceland in Hannover

The European Championship in Handball starts next week in Poland. And today the German team played the last test game before the competition against Iceland in Hannover. Unfortunately our team lost with 24:27 in the … Read more

Geocaching!

In case you don’t know what geocaching is all about: it’s something like a modern scavenger hunt. We are pretty new to the “game” and found 47 caches until now. Some were more tricky than … Read more

Squirrel paradise: The Ohlsdorf cemetery

I hope you all had a great Christmas time! To be honest I am happy that it’s over now. To much food and Christmas stress ๐Ÿ™‚ Yesterday we spent the day in Hamburg. While Anna … Read more

Happy coffee-mas

Our last coffee delivery for this year arrived today – together with the two packages we received as a gift last week our stock should be adequate to stay caffeinated until 2016 ๐Ÿ™‚ I wish … Read more

The Kingfisher photo challenge

The truth Actually the title doesn’t describe it very well. A better title would have been: Sitting around at a small pond for five hours and waiting for a common Kingfisher to come around. But … Read more

Mainzelmaennchen on tour in Scotland

When you are a frequent visitor, you may remember our Scotland trip in spring this year. When you are not – just visit the link ๐Ÿ™‚ . On our roadtrip we were accompanied by a … Read more

Hamburg Hafencity

Sorry for the gap between my last post and this one. But since I had several things to do and the weekend is the only time I can take photos right now there was no … Read more

Streets of Berlin

When you think of Berlin, you probably mostly end up with the “Brandenburger Tor”, the “Reichstag” building or the “Berliner Mauer”. But there are almost uncountable other places to discover, away from the main attractions. … Read more

Appetizer: Berlin

We just came back from a four days trip to our German capital Berlin. I’ll show you more photos from this journey in my next blogpost. See you then! ๐Ÿ™‚

Refugees welcome!

Regardless whether turning on the TV, opening the newspaper or visiting any news page in the internet, you will always see something about the so called “refugee crisis” that Germany faces right now. Until a … Read more