Windy days. Rainy days. Or Schietwetter, as the locals say. Salt in our hair. Long relaxing beach walks. Fresh air. A cup of tea. Thalasso massages. Reading books. Sleeping in. Fantastic breakfast & dinners. A little bit of sunshine. Fischbrötchen & beer. Siestas – a great way to relax, unwind, and disconnect.
Back in one of my favorite parts of Germany, the Nordsee ♥️
Juist is one of the 12 East Frisian islands off the German coast in the North Sea and famous for its slow pace.
The arrival on Juist depends largely on the tide, in other words, one ferry a day. The slow pace starts upon arrival and a salty breeze is greeting you. The island is completely car-free, so the only modes of transportation are horse carriage, bicycle, pedal car, or walking.
🍻Even food is called like the weather here ⛈️ 😅The “Orkantuete” 🌀 is very tasty!A moment of blue sky.Juist is when you sit outside in a beer garden at 11C degrees because it stopped raining (it’s been very rainy here…) 🍻My favorite view 🌊 Fish 🐟 soup & Sanddorn Spritz 🥰🫖 Beach Babe 🐶 Beer around the island 🍻Indeed ☔️Horses transporting people, goods or even garbage.🦐 soup Walking on top of the Deich Windy enough for kiting The king of eating a whole fish 🐠 Fischbrötchen & Beer ♥️Another favorite ♥️Grande Finale 🌅 Bye bye ♥️
And now legal in Germany #Paris with Anne Hidalgo in the last ten years: 155.000 new trees; $8: 40% less air pollution; do 550 new kilometers of bike path; 205 school streets; 131 green playgrounds. Once politicians understand that #courage and #leadership is required, phenomenal things can happen!Lyon verzeichnet ein Drittel weniger Unfälle mit Tempo 30„Frauen sollten sich frei für die Verhütungsmittel entscheiden können, die sie brauchen, ohne dass ihnen die Kosten in die Quere kommen”, erklärte Premierminister Trudeau im Onlinedienst X.Neu in der Stadt und (noch) keine Kontakte? Oder einfach auf der Suche nach neuen Begegnungen? Das kann sich schnell einsam anfühlen. Für Frauen, die neue Freunde und Freundinnen in München suchen, hat Clare Carrington einen Instagram-Account erstellt. Dort organisiert sie alle zwei Wochen Spaziergänge für Frauen jeden Alters, egal aus welchem Land, egal in welcher Lebenslage. So entstehen neue Freundschaften, erzählt die 28-Jährige der SZ.Happy Birthday, Golf! Exactly 50 years ago, on Friday, 29. March 1974, our first Golf models rolled off the assembly line in Wolfsburg. Kudos to all the amazing people behind this icon that has been at the heart of the Volkswagen brand for half a century now! It has constantly adapted itself to customer needs and has thus become a global bestseller. Our Golf has always and will always provide affordable mobility for all at the highest technical level. Here’s to the next 50 successful years!Don’t worry about a thing. How cool is this Spotify tattoo?!Interesting 🤔 Unternehmen verpflichten, Praktikanten zu bezahlen. So sollen sie bei gleicher Arbeit wie reguläre Angestellte behandelt werden.Eine tolle Idee: Gärtnern im Alter bedeutet aktiv sein an frischer Luft und zugleich Ruhe und Entspannung zu finden. Zudem hält das Hobby geistig fit. Gartenarbeit kann auch für Menschen mit Demenz eine Reihe von Vorteilen mit sich bringen.Tuesday conducted the first outdoor test in the U.S. of technology designed to brighten clouds and bounce some of the sun’s rays back into space, a way of temporarily cooling the Earth, which is now dangerously overheating.Mount Fuji In Japan ♥️
Straight to the North!God Friday – Making sushi with those 2 great kiddosVoila 🍣Delicious 2 sisters. A convertible. Lady Gaga in the speakers.The beautiful North!A sunny hour of the day.Happy Easter 🐰
Beer tasting 🍻
SpringBlue sky. Sometimes.
A chilled weekend in great company. Thank you! We’ll be back soon 😁
Kazuko Yamakawa, 81, der oberfränkischen Stadt Hohenberg an der Eger über die Jahre gespendet. Aus Dankbarkeit, denn das Produkt einer ortsansässigen Firma hat sie reich gemacht. ng des Jahres ging wieder eine Spende ein – isher größte. Mehr als 16 Millionen Euro hat akawa bereitgestellt, für den Bau von erefreien Seniorenwohnungen.Congratulations 😎Amazing! Ein echter Game-Changer beim Bürokratieabbau! Finally… 👏🏻 In Africa: avocado waste turned into biodegradable plastic – genius
Die Mainichi Shimbun (Shimbun heisst Zeitung) ist die meist gekaufte Tageszeitung Japans mit einer Auflage von 5 Millionen. Es ist wohl weltweit die erste wirklich “Grüne Zeitung”, denn gedruckt wird auf einer Mischung aus aus Recyclingpapier, Wasser und kleinen Blumen oder Samen…
Man kann so eine Zeitungsseite einfach ins Blumenbeet oder einen Blumenkasten legen – oder kleine Teile abreissen un in Blumetöpfe pflanzen – etwas mit Erde bedecken und regelmässig giessen … und schon bald spriessen kleine Blumenwiesen oder auch Kräutergärtchen!
Was für eine schöne Idee, die so manche Tageszeitung wirklich nachmachen sollte!
Die Idee, Blumensamen in Papier einzulassen, ist ja nicht neu, schon lange gibt es beschreibbare Glückwunschkarten zum Einpflanzen und Pflanzbänder – aber dass da noch keiner zuvor drauf gekommen ist…
Lucky 🍀 Finland 🇫🇮 🍀 Auch wenn Deutschland aus den Top 20 des World Happiness Reports gerutscht ist: Bei uns im Norden gibt es viele Gründe glücklich zu sein —> vacation planned 🌊Fully agree 🐶 💕 💃 🥳🥳🥳💃🌱Gil Howard is an 82-year-old retired professor who happened upon a second career as the go-to driving instructor for women from Afghanistan in Modesto, California. According to local lore, thanks to “Mr. Gil,” more Afghan women likely drive in and around the city than in all Afghanistan.WELL DONE IRELAND!! CHAMPIONS AGAIN!!Age is just a number. #WorldFigureSmall Hands, Big Dreams: The Voice of the Future Rises!
Playing the algorithm on social media works great ✌🏻
To the good news of the new week!
🌈DFB-Ausrüster adidas hat die neuen Outfits des Nationalteams enthüllt. Motto: „Typisch Deutsch” 🌈 Nora Al Matrooshi ist die erste Astronautin aus den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten #NASA #raumfahrtInvisible Divisions One Border, Two Realities. 💚The first ever Irish-born actor to win the Best Actor Oscar, Well done Cillian Murphy! ☘️Congratulations 🍾 💪🏻Someone has started putting rubber ducks into the potholes in Glasgow 😅😅😅 always look on the bride side of life…🌷 Spring arrived!
“If you’re lucky enough to be Irish, you’re lucky enough. If not, you can wait until St. Patrick’s Day when everyone is Irish.”
Our party guests Everyone is a little Irish today 💚
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! ☘️
Saint Patrick’s Cathedral Armagh lit up for Saint Patrick’s Day.
St. Patrick’s Day, feast day (March 17) of St. Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. Born in Roman Britain in the late 4th century, he was kidnapped at the age of 16 and taken to Ireland as a slave. He escaped but returned about 432 ce to convert the Irish to Christianity.
All above is confirmed by being married to my Irish man ☘️ 😅
Do most folks even know what the Luck of the Irish means? It’s only by sheer luck the Irish overcame everything thrown at them! God bless the Irish ☘️
Meanwhile in Dublin: the temple bar all set up for st Patrick’s Day
When the Irish Stew is bubbling and the pie is hot, and the Irish Tea is steeping in a little Irish pot. When the room is warm with laughter and the songs are bright and bold, and there’s poetry and magic in the stories that are told. Isn’t it a blessing, isn’t it just grand to know the heart & soul of you belong to IRELAND.
Our St. Patrick’s Day was delicious.
Irish stew – home made by Scott and complimented by our guest from the Chicago region “this is the taste of my grandma’s stew” 💚Wee burgers
Once a solemn religious holiday, it didn’t take on the drinking stereotype until America started celebrating the day, and in case you are wondering why Americans celebrate St. Patrick’s Day:
• 30.7 million U.S. residents claimed Irish ancestry in 2022.
• Cook County, Illinois, which includes Chicago, is the nation’s county with the largest Irish-American population, according to 2022 data. The population comes in at 418,997.
• 112,251 U.S. residents were born in Ireland.
😅Chicago: the Chicago river in green for St. Patrick’s Day 💚 *thanks Saskia, for sharing the photo!Chicago ☘️In fact, the whole world is celebrating St. Patrick’s Day ☘️Irish ☘️ Cheers 🍻
Thanks for joining our party last night! We had a great night!
James Blunt in Stuttgart. Last night. Presenting his newly released album “Who We Used To Be”. He started the show with his words: “the first half of the show is about my miserable songs, which made me successful”. Very charming. I love his voice. Smoky. Deep. Soft. Romantic.
Wow!
What a show!
And the crowd was singing along when his most famous song “you’re beautiful“ came on – a song from 2006. A song reminding me about my time abroad in Australia. A beautiful time. Hach. Time flies by.
And we got two things in common: we both got married in 2014 & we are both married to a British person. The little difference: he’s married to an aristocratic wife and they are friends with Harry & Meghan. Ah, and Ed Sheeran is his oldest son’s godfather. lol.
If you focus on the good news, it’s amazing what you find out there in the www!
Here’s to the good news this week.
Haste makes waste – Stuttgart 21 geht im Dezember 2025 nur in Teilen in Betrieb. Nun fahren die ersten mit Schienen beladenen Züge über die Filder bis kurz vor die künftige Bahnsteighalle. At last, we are rolling 🚂 Notre Dame update: „with great satisfaction, we announce the completion of the rooftop frame today – a testament to the dedication and skill of countless craftsmen and artisans who have poured their hearts into this restoration project over the past four years“ 💜🌳 Congratulations 🏂 🇩🇪 Yeah, that Stuttgart!Miley Cyrus: protect kids, not guns! Thank you!Thank you!😃Olaf in our neighborhood It’s offering itself! (would be nice, BUT => fake news!)💪🏻 getting there Thanks, Helene! We need more of you!French legislators on Monday last week voted to explicitly enshrine access to abortion in the Constitution, making their country the first in the world to do so 🇫🇷🚌 🚆 ✈️ At least, Germany is developing a great humor!
Finally… our employer has been in the news this week with big statements.
Der Chef des Autozulieferers Bosch hält Verbrennungsmotoren noch für Jahrzehnte für notwendig und schließt sich damit Toyotas Bossan an, der sich kürzlich ganz ähnlich geäußert hatte.Let’s keep preparing our future 💪🏻💜
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