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Wonder no more!

Following my intensive eating training in Italy, we have once again visited our favourite pizza place in Nuremberg – L’Osteria.  I am happy to report that my earlier challenge  about eating an entire pizza has been laid to rest.  Not only did I mange to eat the entire pizza, but also try some of Boris’ […]

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Asserting Independence

Today we were treated to a fine 3 course meal prepared by Boris and Evelina.  They planned the menu, they prepared the entire meal and served it.  We were absolutely astonished not only at their zeal and dedication but also the actual planning and execution.  They chopped and sliced, mixed, fried, boiled, strained and served […]

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Pool Time

Once the kids got home from school, we had a quick lunch and went out to the pool.  Its an outdoor pool which has been recently renovated.  It seems that the designers have gone mad with stainless steel.  The pools are stainless steel, the bottom the sides the edges all stainless steel, as are the […]

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Still no Rain.

It’s 8:00 p.m. and it is finally safe to come out of the house.  We decided to hit our favourite little Italian gelato place for something cool.  After that a short trip to the river valley to scope out an outdoor swimming pool where tomorrow we might seek some solace from this menacing heat.  

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Something to say

It seems that every time we turn around there is a demonstration somewhere protesting this that or the other.  Today, on the demonstration agenda are the dolphins at the Nuremburg Zoo.  I have to say that we much preferred the noise of  the kilted musicians to the bells and chanting of the dolphin parade.  After […]

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Family Palace

Not as grand as Schllos Weissenstein but equally as charming and far less expansive to heat and staff is this little residence Volker’s brother calls home. This little house is a bit of work in progress, after years of neglect it is slowly being restored. Whatever the shape – the family has its palace and […]

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Bierfest

Today is, if you are a god-fearing folk, a Happy Cadaver Day, literal translation in German. This means it’s a holiday and everything is closed except churches and beer gardens, both of which are open for business and will gladly take your money.  Since we don’t drink beer, but have been to church before, we […]

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Triumph

While we have not managed to triumph over the Polish Bureaucracy yet,  we have in fact spotted this  classic Triumph bike on our way to a Beer Festival at the castle in Nuremberg. Not only did this thing look and sound great – the guy rode it like he meant it too!

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F1 Style

I still have not seen the last F1 race from Monaco. I though I would be watching it already but we are still over 350km away from home.  Having been stuck in traffic for over 3 hours it was time to stretch our legs a bit and make up for some lost time – F1 […]

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Baustelle

Baustelle – at first that sounded like some exotic French pastry we thought.  After a nice rest we drove by  a sign that read “Baustelle in 7 km”.  With a bit of traffic on the road going rather slow around Leipzig, we looked around at all the nice cars including this great looking CLS wagon. […]

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So Many Choices

It’s pit stop time.  After a few hours of bad weather, we finally got some sunshine about 40km from the German border.  We decided to stop for a little break and have some food.  You might say that this really is just an average stop, on an average autobahn in the middle of Germany.  Kind […]

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To Poland and Back

Today we are going to Warsaw!  For me it is a first trip back to Poland in 29.5 years.  For us, as a family, it is the first trip to Poland.  We are going to be staying in Loziska just outside Warsaw with Anna’s cousin Robert.  The drive itself is about 960km but we managed […]

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Pottenstein

The plan for this Saturday was to go to Pottenstein.  Pottenstein is a small village about 60km north of Nuremberg.  It is famous for its cave, its trout smokehouse and the summer sledding park as well as a beautiful castle perched on the top of the hill..  We decided to spent a relaxing day away […]

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Autobahn

A practical approach to distracted driving. We have been here for almost a week now and it seems that every time we get in the car we have to get on Autobahn. Autobahn is a precarious thing.  It seems to have a life of its own. There are speed limits and there are a lot […]

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Legoland – Deutschland

The happiest place on earth, at least right now for Boris and Evelina is Legoland.  About 197km outside Nuremberg or 1.30h drive from Nuremberg  is Legoland-Allee, Günzburg Legoland.  We got a family pass for all Legoland attractions throughout Europe for 1 year, unlimited admission for €257 including parking.  This includes all Legoland fees, free parking, London […]

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Nuremberg – Großgründlach

For the first time this week we managed to have an early dinner which was at 7:00 pm, this left us some free time to go out for  a walk around the neighbourhood.  The neighbourhood is an eclectic mixture of old homes, new houses, and historic homes that have been fully renovated but totally modernized […]

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Munich

We set off to Munich to get our passports done. It took exactly 2 min to be sent off with a litany of excuses. Wrong documents, wrong translations, wrong day, wrong time, wrong reason and with the wrong rhyme! With a whole day ahead of us we decided to explore this wonderful city and it’s […]

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