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Sunday Brunch

We are going out for brunch today, not the one filled with endless lines of chaffing dishes filled with food – we are thinking something more simple, less filling but equally as delicious.  Sunday Brunch is more like Parisian Breakfast and no one does this better than the French themselves.  We are not sure which of the […]

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Retrospect

A year has come and gone.  So far we have visited 11 countries and what seems like innumerable number  cities and perhaps even more restaurants and shops.  We walked what seems like hundreds of kilometres on old cobble stones, consumed pounds and pounds of gelato and drunk gallons of espresso and wine.  The blog has had over 22,000 […]

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Berlin Cathedral

Not wanting to be outdone by the Roman Catholics and their obscenely splendid churches – the Protestants built their own showpiece. Having a budget of a king always helps and thus Berlin Cathedral.  While this account is not entirely based on historical accuracy, the building nonetheless is wonderful and splendid.  It has an air of […]

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More Berlin

After the morning walk and lunch we came back to the hotel to check in, and to relax for a bit before round two of our exploration.  We walked around the Tiergarten park and Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Climbed the Victory Tower, and strolled down the Embassy street, had a dinner and came back to the […]

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Planning

It has been fairly quiet on Emilienstrasse for the last few days – but we are actually very busy.  We are essentially trying to figure out how to spend the remaining 4 months here.  We have both the spring and summer trips to plan out, we are  filling up our weekend excursions and short day trips.  We are organizing things […]

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Albrecht Dürer

After a visit to the Rally Grounds we continued with our early afternoon morbid theme and visited a beautiful cemetery where Albrecht Dürer and other famous people are buried in Nuremberg. Dürer was a German painter, engraver, printmaker,mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. His high-quality woodcuts (nowadays often called Meisterstiche or “master prints”) established his reputation […]

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Road Trip

We are setting off on a little holiday with Anna’s parents.  First we are driving  to Sankt Georgen im Attergau, in Austria where Anna’s dad begun his journey to Canada some 35 years ago.  We are then going to spent 2 days wondering around Salzburg, a day in Ljubljana, Slovenia and then off to Treviso, Italy […]

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Sękacz

This then is a traditional Polish dessert.  It is only made in certain parts of Poland and it is now Boris’s favourite dessert.  A basic sękacz is made of 60 eggs, a lot of butter, milk and a bit of flour.  A large sękacz will be made of 80 or more eggs.  Once batter is […]

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Morning Walk

In an unusual turn of events we are out of the house before 9 am.   Out of the house, through the park to the bakery to get some fresh bread.  Our parents are here, and in about an hour more guests from Poland are arriving for the weekend. It’s going to be fun.

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Charming

There is this charming and almost enchanted looking fence on the way  to Volker’s office.  It is just another row of old stone buildings with a small garden up front, on an ordinary street just on the outskirts of the old town and yet there is something  different and almost magical about this place – […]

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Bismarck

At the end of our short street is a boulevard that separates our neighbourhood from the moat canals and the parks down below.  On the boulevard there is a massive statue dedicated to Bismarck.  It is quite old and a bit damaged, undoubtedly by both wars.  This place is great for either getting to the […]

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