Category: Uncategorized

August

What an exciting month. Wedding anniversary. Sea freight arrived. Started my motorbike license. Moving into our new home. Unpacking, shopping, decorating, falling tired but happily asleep. Ending August with a housewarming party with family & friends. Wonderful.

We can see the moon and the stars from our bed.

I love to pass by blooming sunflower fields. Daily.

Weekends which start with a cappuccino in bed and end with Aperol Spritz in the garden.

First, second and third BBQ…

Late night shopping: in the sunflower field.

Having family & friends for our housewarming party. Thank you all for coming. Our neighbors have hens… Frida & Friends.

August has been wonderful. Looking forward to the next couple of months.

Mini turns 60!

Happy Birthday!

The Mini was originally designed by Sir Alexander Issigonis for the former British Motor Corporation. The small car has become a big star over the years – especially in films such as The Italian Job. One thing that has not changed is that it is still made in Oxford, by BMW.

Even Mr Bean has been invited to the birthday party in Britain.

Mini seems to run in the Turley family.

We love our Mini. It drives like a go-kart. It’s fast (hubby got already flashed twice). It’s spacious: 4 adults, a baby and a dog or 7 suitcases or 5 big boxes of beer… we always find parking (well, the mirrors are a bit too big for Stuttgart parking garages… or am I just bad in parking???).

It wasn’t planned to get one in June. Now we are happy we have our Mini one. Happy birthday! To many many more miles together.

Home Sweet Home

Home sweet home.

We are still busy setting up our new home. And we are loving it. Love to spend time with family who’s been very supportive. We love being in the garden. We love adding a bit Asian touch. We love to grow our own herbs. Our French wine found a beautiful new home (let’s see how soon we need another trip to the south…).

We all love chilling.

BBQing

What we love the most about our new home: BBQing. Of course.

Big garden and a lot of space for different styles.

Tonight: dutch oven or how my husband calls it “man cook with fire!”.

The result: super delicious & Franconian: Leberkaese & Spiegelei

I am being spoiled by hubby. I love it.

Rothenburg

Weekend and well deserved break (from moving boxes). Meeting lovely friends from Shanghai in their home town Rothenburg ob der Tauber, famous for its Taubertal Festival.

I cannot believe that I have never been here before.

Very rare and environment protected: Silberdisteln.

It is beautiful, no wonder tourists from all over the world stop by and the town is prepared.

Christmas in summer and all year round.

A beautiful town in beautiful Franconia.

Franconia.

our home

Sea freight arrived. Moving in. Unpacking boxes. Being happy. Decorating. Cleaning. Being creative. Being happy. Falling tired asleep every night. Still finding boxes. Still missing things and cannot find them. Being happy.

We love to sit in our garden.

We loved eating our first picked raspberries from the garden (thanks to the previous renters).

We now have our own lavender in the garden. The smell is amazing. More flowers and herbs will follow soon…

And guess where we spent last Saturday? You wouldn’t imagine… it was a long night with our new washing machine. It wandered almost through the complete room… 2 engineers trying to balance it until giving up at midnight (daddies, where are you?). It took a friend the next day to give us the hint about the transportation screws… which was described on page 1 in the instructions… (don’t tell anybody). At least we had beer with us.

Many thanks to all helpers and the lovely gifts.

A traditional gift in Germany when moving into a new place: bread & salt:

And in between unpacking, cleaning, etc. we are enjoying the Schwabian food.

It feels like arriving. It feels good. It feels like home.