Back to Berlin...and BEYOND

Grand Place-Grote Mark Disregarding what my parents actually likes (nature/few people), we went on a city break to Brussels between ...

After such a long wait to Thanksgiving and a bit of a stressful last few months I CANNOT believe it is almost Christmas . Less than a we...

Berliners get extra ungemütlichkeit in winter as the days grow short and ice freezes in your/ Ian 's beard. Many try to flee the cit...

Growing up in Washington State, trips to Leavenworth are practically mandated. Christmas, summer, or for one of the largest Oktoberfests in...

Having just been to Dresden this summer , even we were surprised to be back after 4 short months. But as the site of one of Germany's...

In our continuing odyssey of  weird, we share more pictures of our photo advent calendar toward Christmas. Christmas markets , presents,...

Last year, we were missing our family & friends . No longer our first Christmas in Germany , we glumly drank our glühwein , shuffled t...

Before I wax too poetic about Berlin (because we've had some pretty unbelievably good weekends of late), it's important to look at ...

Doesn't it always seem like warp speed toward Christmas, followed by an utter melt down in January? With our trip to Paris, harrowing ap...

Our photo advent calendar for our p's has become a grotesque thing of beauty. We've enjoyed  showing our culinary accomplishments ...

 We continue our photo advent pics for the parents with week 3: Day 10: 15 days till Christmas & time to pick our tree. That means ...

...don't do what we do - seriously. Euphemistically you could say we're quirky, but realistically we're a little off. If you do...

Christmas is a mere 18 days away and we have halfway thrown ourselves into the Christmas spirit. We put up our paper sign " Welkom Sin...

We've been on the look out for an advent calendar we really like . The supermarkets are chock (late) full of disposable calendars with...

Ian just had me open the first gift- a French press! I am so happy. (Seriously, we've been missing coffee something fierce). Love this...

It's apparently going to be a cold one. The guy we are renting the place from, Jannis, is traveling SouthEast Asia this winter. He must ...

 A beautiful Christmas in Berlin ..... Berliner Dom

Well, well, well... only about 20 days after Christmas and we've decided to tell you about it. It's cause we've been really b...